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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7188436 | Heating and drying apparatus for particulate material A continuous gravity flow apparatus for heating and/or drying of particulate material is vertically disposed and is provided with an inlet at the top and an outlet at the bottom. The apparatus includes a flow passage for the particulate material which is defined bet... | 03/13/2007 |
| 6457255 | Ring to ring gas processor/dryer Conditioning apparatus for handling particulate material comprises a central frame and a plurality of spaced, annular troughs mounted to the central frame to support the particulate material. The troughs are arranged in a stacked configuration having succ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6311411 | Vertical dryer with vertical particle removal plenum and method of use An vertical dryer (10) is provided having a plurality of individual dryer decks (12-18) including alternating fan and heater decks (14, 16), an air circulation assembly (11), and an upright, common plenum chamber (26) in communication with the decks (12-1... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6248298 | FCC unit catalyst stripper An improved stripper section design is provided for use in fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) units. The stripper section contains means for imparting rotational movement to the FCC cracking catalyst as it traverses the stripping section. In one embodiment th... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6158143 | Grain dryer in cross oblique flow A grain dryer has three levels of modulated air chambers; a multi-perforated chamber holding grains which surround all three levels of the modulated air chambers; an intermediate air passage; partition walls and a set of central fans to direct airflow cro... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6141298 | Programmable self-operating compact disk duplication system A system for the duplication of binary data onto CD-R disks, the system including a copy unit, a host computer and computer software, the software being installed in the host computer to provide a user interface and to direct the transfer of data from the... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6055741 | Apparatus for draining washed products, particularly agricultural products The apparatus has a plurality of conveying elements (20) that are connected in series, and have two parallel toothed belts and steel carrier sheets connected thereto. The belts are respectively guided over deflecting wheels (15), where the conveying eleme... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5992041 | Raining bed heat exchanger and method of use A raining bed heat exchanger includes: a hollow stack; a feed inlet located near the top of the stack for introducing particulate material into the stack so that the material falls through the stack; a gas inlet located near the bottom of the stack for in... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5522153 | Device and process for pre-treating electronic circuit scraps A device for pre-treating electronic circuit scraps has a conduit placed at a slope to the vertical direction. Also, some counter-rotating disk wheels are arranged in a cascade and bear grid-like vanes. These wheels begin at an upper end where the scraps ... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5483752 | Device for heating or cooling bulk materials, particularly for lignite preheating A device for heating or cooling of bulk material including two pairs of vibrating chutes, with each pair being formed of two oppositely inclined chutes mounted one above the other and with each pair being equipped with a unidirectional vibrator, and with ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5392529 | Vibratory bulk material processor and method A bulk material processor includes a tray assembly with a panel subassembly having an upper panel section and a lower panel section. The upper panel section is adapted to receive bulk material and pass it to the lower panel section for discharge. A heater... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5345997 | Cooling device A cooling device (1) in the form of a vertically arranged hollow chamber is located between a heat treatment furnace (9) and a quenching bath (11d). The device controls the cooling of small hardware items dropping downwardly through it from the furnace (9... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5305535 | Bulk material reactor In a bulk material reactor comprising a reactor housing in which is arranged a travelling bed of 6,6' formed of bulk material 7,7', and a feed device 14-16-17 located on the top side, and a removal device 10 located on the underside of travelling bed 6,6,... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5233766 | Vertical grain dryer A vertical dryer for granular materials the dryer having a substantially vertical chute into which granular material is deposited, the chute having walls that are at least in part air pervious for passing heated air through the chute, the chute having inc... | 08/10/1993 |
| 4970806 | Process and device for conditioning bulk material Bulk material containing vaporizable ingredients, such as lignite, hard coal, peat, waste wood, clarifier sludge, waste sludge, contaminated earth, catalysts, zeolites and filter cake, is conditioned by means of a vibrating plate conveyor divided into a h... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4833793 | Anaerobic pasteurizing conditioning system An anaerobic, pasteurizing conditioning system for treating matter such as whole and ground grain, minerals and other ingredients to increase the rate of their conversion and absorption during digestion and thus the nutritional value thereof. The system c... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4785554 | Method and apparatus for conditioning bulk material Bulk material containing vaporizable ingredients, such as lignite, hard coal, peat, waste wood, clarifier sludge, waste sludge, contaminated earth, catalysts, zeolites and filter cake, is conditioned by means of a vibrating plate conveyor divided into a h... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4702694 | Furnace with modular construction A multiple hearth furnace is constructed from a plurality of cylindrical heating chamber modules, connected in a vertical configuration. Each module contains a hollow hearth, which forms a floor in the chamber, the hearth having an open portion approximat... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4630382 | Discharge device for granules A discharge device for granules from vertical reactors having a plane blower plate with scraper edges has at least one discharge slot with corresponding collecting device fixedly connected to the discharge slot so as to be rotatable with the latter. A sta... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4604814 | Apparatus for cooling or drying coarse-grained bulk material The subject matter of the invention relates to apparatus for cooling or drying coarse-grained bulk material, comprising a plurality of trays mounted one above the other for rotation about a common axis, each tray being divided into a plurality of segments... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4586270 | Bed thickness levelling device for a cooling column In a cooling column the feed material to be dried or cooled is intermittently transferred from any one sieve bottom to a subjacent sieve bottom as by tilting individual sectors of the respective sieve bottoms. As a result, the feed material comes to rest ... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4547975 | Method and apparatus for adjusting the quantity of water deposited on a fine aggregate A quantity of water deposited on sand particles is adjusted to a predetermined value by utilizing a method and apparatus disclosed having a hopper through which the sand particles to be treated are supplied. A velocity energy is imparted to the particles ... | 10/22/1985 |
| 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 |
| 4525936 | Flux drying apparatus and method An apparatus and method for drying welding flux in which flux to be dried is fed downwardly by gravity onto the uppermost of a vertically staggered, interleaved array of shelf plate support members within a drying chamber; and the drying chamber is swung ... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4515629 | Degassing metal powder Apparatus and method for degassing fine powders of metals are disclosed. A vertical shell having a series of baffle plates inclined at an angle of repose is used to induce a serpentine path for the powder. The shell is subjected to suitable conditions of ... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4513515 | Gas treatment of particulate materials in storage containers A vertical container holds and treats particulate material, such as comminuted cellulosic fibrous material like wood chips. The container includes a vertical interior wall, an open top, and a discharge outlet at the bottom. A top interior wall structure d... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4465376 | Device for suspending a scraper blade for the displacement of material upon a surface A plate-type dryer or like heat-treatment apparatus has a plurality of annular horizontal plates upon which material is treated while a shaft surrounded by these plates carries a plurality of generally radial arms from which scraper blades are suspended. ... | 08/14/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4126946 | Grain drying apparatus and process A process for drying grain in which the grain is first heated to drive off a portion of the moisture as it passes along a conveyor, and the heated and partially dried grain is then discharged into a holding or steeping bin where the moisture in the center... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4045882 | Grain drying apparatus and process An appartus and process for drying grain in which the grain is first heated to drive off a portion of the moisture as it passes along a conveyor, and the heated and partially dried grain is then discharged into a holding or steeping bin where the moisture... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4038152 | Process and apparatus for the destructive distillation of waste material An apparatus is provided for the destructive distillation of organic waste materials. An insulated sealed distillator compartment is provided having a plurality of conveyor stages for transporting the waste material through the sealed compartment while su... | 07/26/1977 |
