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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6006441 | Process and apparatus for drying small articles in a container In a process and apparatus for drying small articles in a process container, such as closure elements of pharmaceutical vessels after a treatment of the closure elements, an air-permeable support is arranged beneath the articles to support them and prepar... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5913588 | Spout-fluid bed dryer and granulator for the treatment of waste slurries A spout-fluid bed drying system and process is comprised of a spout-fluid bed dryer having a conical shaped lower section provided with a packing of heat exchange particles. A cyclone separator is connected to the top of the dryer with separated particles... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5884416 | Grain dryer module A module used with a granular material dryer, such as a grain dryer. The module includes an outer wall, at least one channel and at least one outlet aperture. The channel is positioned relative to the wall such that the channel is in fluid communication w... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5809664 | Spout-fluid bed dryer and granulator for the treatment of animal manure A spout-fluid bed drying system and process is comprised of a spout-fluid bed dryer having a conical shaped lower section provided with a packing of heat exchange particles. A cyclone separator is connected to the top of the dryer with separated particles... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5443539 | Particulate dryer This invention relates to a dryer for uniform drying of moisture laden particulate material. The dryer comprises a substantially vertical tower having a top, a bottom, side walls, a moist material inlet, a moist material distribution section below the inl... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5423133 | Drying hopper for polymer powder Disclosed is a drying hopper comprising, disposed in its lower position, a cone portion having diameters gradually decreasing toward a lower end thereof, in which a high temperature gas is injected toward powder descending in the cone portion to thereby d... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5167081 | Grain dryer The apparatus provides a recirculating normal batch, concurrent flow, grain dryer and an alternate small batch countercurrent flow grain dryer. Hot drying air is provided by an external conventional burner and air fan. For the normal batch, the hot air is... | 12/01/1992 |
| 4596079 | Heating and drying apparatus for powdery or granular materials A heating and drying apparatus for powdery or granular materials, including a hollow column consisting of an upper disaggregation heat-exchange chamber having a plurality of baffle plates disposed therein arrayed in multiple stages with gap spaced retaine... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4592151 | Packing elements for device for countercurrent exchange, particularly heat exchange, between solid particles and a gas current Packing for a column for treating solid particles by direct contact between an ascending gas current and solid particles flowing countercurrent by gravity within the packing. The packing has an ordered structure, consisting of superposition of at least tw... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4538364 | Apparatus having bottom air channels for air drying of grain in a drying store and for conveying the grain away from the store On the bottom surface of a store or silo for granular material is placed a system of air channels, which are at one end connected both with an outlet sluice for the grain material and with a blower housing, which is also connected with the free atmosphere... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4535551 | Transfer apparatus Transfer apparatus comprising a vessel having an inlet and an outlet for particulate solid material and a inlet and outlet for fluid to flow in countercurrent or cocurrent to the solid material, and a packing within the vessel, the packing including a plu... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4502229 | Grain dryer The grain dryer of the present invention includes a housing having two spaced apart vertical partitions therein which divide the housing into a central compartment, a front compartment and a rear compartment. Air intake openings are provided in the two ve... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4455762 | Glass batch pellet production and drying process and apparatus In a rotary apparatus for the production of layered glass batch pellets there is provided a dryer for final drying of the pellets prior to their being fed to a melting furnace.... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4451272 | Moving bed filter, especially an adsorption filter Moving bed filter for purifying a fluid formed of gas and/or vapor, the filter having a flow of loose particulate material downwardly from above, and a continuous flow upwardly from below of a fluid to be filtered, and including a container filled with th... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4446630 | Method and apparatus for slow cooling of heated grain Method and apparatus for the slow cooling of grain in which warm grain is introduced into the upper end of a silo and cooling air is introduced at the lower end and is evacuated at an intermediate point between the upper and lower ends of the silo. The wa... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4372053 | Dryer for particulate material This invention relates to a method and apparatus for drying particulate material wherein the particulate material is passed through an enclosed chamber. A heated fluid is introduced into a portion of the enclosed chamber to heat and absorb the moisture fr... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4371425 | Shaft-like dry cooler for coke Coke is dry cooled in a shaft-like cooler by gases conveyed through the coke. The cooler comprises a top antechamber below a charging opening, a cooling chamber under the antechamber and having a gas inlet and a coke outlet at the bottom end. Between the ... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4341516 | Grain dryer with heat exchange assembly In accordance with the present invention, a grain dryer having a heat exchange assembly is provided. The grain dryer comprises a housing and a generally vertical granular-material conduit for conducting granular material through the housing. The heat exch... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4337031 | Preheating apparatus An apparatus for preheating particulate material in which the particulate material is transferred from an upper storage bin to a lower annular flow passage by a plurality of connecting chutes and the particulate material is preheated in the annular flow p... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4259158 | Apparatus for producing abrasion resistant coke from brown coal briquets A method of producing abrasion resistant coke from brown coal briquets in a shaft furnace comprises charging the coke briquets into the top of the furnace and removing coke from the bottom of the furnace while directing inert hot combustion gases into the... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4231844 | Method and apparatus for producing abrasion resistant coke from brown coal briquets A method of producing abrasion resistant coke from brown coal briquets in a shaft furnace comprises charging the coke briquets into the top of the furnace and removing coke from the bottom of the furnace while directing inert hot combustion gases into the... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4193760 | Apparatus and method for heating a plurality of solids In a device for raising the temperature of a plurality of solids which utilizes a heating chamber having at least one hot flue gas inlet and one or more solids inlet apertures to supply concurrent flows of solids and hot flue gas to a heating chamber, and... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4165216 | Continuous drying and/or heating apparatus This invention comprises an apparatus and process for drying and/or heating materials. This invention was designed for use in the production of charcoal from wood feed material; however, it can be used to heat and/or dry many types of materials. Feed mate... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4086708 | Grain dryer A concurrent-countercurrent flow type grain dryer is described having an improved wet grain-hot air contacting arrangement. The dryer includes a wet grain bin having a horizontal floor assembly with a plurality of uniformly spaced openings with a tube mem... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4067120 | Grain dryer with air recycling ducts A concurrent-countercurrent air flow grain dryer of the type having an enclosed bin with a wet grain inlet at the top and a dry grain outlet at the bottom includes means for introducing hot air near the top of the bin to serve as a drying medium for the g... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4014642 | Shaft cooler The shaft cooler comprises a plurality of power-driven adjacent horizontal hollow perforated comminuting rolls. An upper section of the shaft cooler is adapted to hold a layer of material from 50 to 100 cm. deep above the rolls. Cooling air is supplied to... | 03/29/1977 |
| 4006536 | Concurrent-countercurrent flow grain dryer with air recycling means An improved concurrent flow, counterflow continuous type grain dryer includes bottom cold air inlet ducts for counterflow of cold air, a first and second set of upper horizontal hot air inlet ducts connected with a common hot air manifold for concurrent f... | 02/08/1977 |
