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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8037618 | Device for draining and drying solids, in particular plastics granulated under water Device for dewatering and drying solids, especially plastics granulated under water, in form of a centrifuge dryer comprising a housing (1) having an inlet opening (2) for the solid material with adhering water and an outlet opening (3) for the ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7562465 | Process and means for drying of sticky materials A process and means for drying sticky or gluey materials uses an arrangement of rotor arms that are adjusted so that feed materials are rapidly mixed into the bed material. The moisture content of the bed material is kept below the moisture limit of the glue zone. | 07/21/2009 |
| 7325329 | Salad spin-drier A salad spin-drier with a bowl of glass or ceramic so that part of the water collection bowl, which until now has been purely functional, may be simultaneously used as a serving bowl for the salad. The salad bowl as is standard apart from the bowl has a lid in which... | 02/05/2008 |
| 6959504 | Emptying unit for recovering bottom residue, particularly in drying filters, drying units, and the like An emptying unit for recovering bottom residue, particularly in drying filters, drying units and the like, comprising, inside a container for treating and containing dried product, fluid introducing elements for moving the bottom residue of the dried product. A disc... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6691720 | Multi-process system with pivoting process chamber A system for processing a workpiece includes an inner chamber pivotably supported within an outer chamber. The inner chamber has an opening to allow liquid to drain out. A motor pivots the inner chamber to bring the opening at or below the level of liquid... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6510785 | Hand operated centrifugal dryer A centrifugal dryer for leafy comestibles includes a basket within a cylindrical cabinet. Overlying the cabinet is a cover assembly having a lid, an external crank arm and a gear train sealed within a gearbox mounted to the underside of the lid. An output... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6438866 | Flow disrupter for dryers The present invention provides a flow disrupter within the flow path of a slurry comprising a desired particulate matter and a transport fluid so as to impart a force angularly disposed to an otherwise obtained direction of travel, thereby preventing the ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6170168 | Circular drying element and drying plant with such a drying element Annular drying element (15) for mounting on a rotor axle in a drying plant for indirect heating or cooling of moist, comminuted, biological material such as fishmeal, offal from slaughterhouses, mash from breweries and similar materials of animal, vegetab... | 01/09/2001 |
| 5974693 | Footwear drying rack and method for its use A footwear drying rack and a method for its use within automatic dryers having a rotating drum, the framework of the rack having one outwardly spring-biased main actuator arm and one telescoping main actuator arm placed in opposition thereto; two rack hol... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5802733 | Dryer system for vegetables An apparatus and method for the drying of produce and particularly leafy vegetables. A spin dryer (100) is provided which releasably receives and holds a plurality of manually liftable field baskets (21). A turntable assembly (110) is rotatably mounted to... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5664337 | Automated semiconductor processing systems A semiconductor processing system for wafers or other semiconductor articles. The system uses an interface section at an end of the machine accessible from the clean room. A plurality of processing stations are arranged away from the clean room interface.... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5339539 | Spindrier A spindrier according to the present invention includes a box body enclosing a plurality of wafers, a rotor for holding the wafers in the box body and rotated by a motor, and upper and lower clamp bars for holding the wafers face to face with their faces ... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5293697 | Vacuum drying apparatus This invention relates to a vacuum drying apparatus for continuously drying treated articles subjected to washing treatment with water such as electronic components. A plurality of vacuum tanks each incorporating therein heaters are disposed concyclically... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5261168 | Fruit dryer A fruit dryer includes a base to cintain a hot wind unit to produce hot wind, a bottom case and a plurality of intermediate cases possible to be deposited one on another for placing fruit to be dried therein, and an upper cap. The bottom case is deposited... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5212876 | Automatic spin dryer An automatic drying apparatus for drying vegetables and the like includes a support having at least three upstanding posts with lateral spaces between the posts for providing clearance for a conveyor extending from the dryer in at least one of three direc... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5174045 | Semiconductor processor with extendible receiver for handling multiple discrete wafers without wafer carriers A processor for centrifugal processing of semiconductor wafers and similar units without a wafer carrier. The processor is specially constructed to provide an automatically extendible and retractable rotor head to allow automated loading and unloading of ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5125166 | Sectionalized centrifugal drying basket/screen assembly A sectionalized screen/basket assembly for a centrifugal dryer for coal slurry comprises a screen formed in an upper section and a lower section, enabling one to save substantially on screen replacement costs, in as much as the great preponderance of scre... | 06/30/1992 |
| 4989345 | Centrifugal spin dryer for semiconductor wafer Apparatus for spin drying a semiconductor wafer by centrifugal force. The apparatus spins the wafer about a selected axis while the wafer is being rinsed, and then displaces the wafer away from the axis along a path of travel circumscribing the axis to dr... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4987687 | Rotary wafer drier A rotary wafer drying apparatus comprises a rotatable rotor for applying centrifugal force to the wafers, and a motor for rotating the rotor. A pair of cradles, attached to the rotor, receive a plurality of wafers arranged vertically. When the wafers are ... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4907349 | Spin drier for semiconductor materials A spin drier is disclosed, which comprises a casing and a rotor to be rotated in the casing for spin-drying semiconductor materials. The rotor includes a plurality of predetermined areas in which a carrier housing the materials to be dried is set with a c... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4897932 | Master optical disk heat-drying apparatus An apparatus for drying optical disks heats a disk from the underside, and optionally blows clean air between the heater and the disk being dried in order to prevent contaminants from landing on the disk. Heat control is provided such that a surface tempe... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4848006 | Spin drier for semiconductor materials A spin drier comprising a rotating rotor for spin-drying semiconductor materials, in which the rotor is made of aluminum to lessen the weight of the rotor and has therein reinforcing rods fastened between the upper ring and the base plate of the rotor in ... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4724619 | Single wafer centrifugal dryer The device according to this invention comprises a casing in which turns a device designed to support and hold the wafer, the said device is fitted eccentrically with respect to its rotational pin (3) a support element 5-6 designed to hold the silicon waf... | 02/16/1988 |
| 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 |
| 4512088 | Centrifugal extractor for rotary air filters Apparatus for extracting fluid from rotary air filters including novel support means upon which an individual filter is mounted and means for imparting rotation thereto for effecting centrifugal extraction. The support means includes a base member, which ... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4159578 | Drying oven A drying oven for drying materials which give off noxious fumes is disclosed. The drying oven comprises a drying chamber having a circular top wall and a downwardly depending sidewall which is closed off at its bottom by a bottom wall. The circular top wa... | 07/03/1979 |
| 3982890 | Method and apparatus for curing concrete products This invention relates to a method and apparatus for curing concrete products. The apparatus comprises an endless tunnel of a circular nature through which a plurality of interconnected spaced rack sections are moved in a step-by-step manner, each pair of... | 09/28/1976 |
