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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7377052 | Low temperature clothes dryer A low temperature clothes dryer having a drying chamber provides removable horizontal screens supporting clothing items and a hanging bar for hanging clothes to be dried. A timing control allows setting the time of operation of the drying cabinet. An electric heater... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7191546 | Low temperature clothes dryer A low temperature clothes dryer having a drying chamber provides removable horizontal screens supporting clothing items and a hanging bar for hanging clothes to be dried. A timing control allows setting the time of operation of the drying cabinet. An electric heater... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7097051 | Hanger rod for drying cabinet A hanger rod for a clothes drying cabinet includes a plurality of notches, each adapted to receive a hanger. Each notch is V-shaped, with opposite side walls which converge downwardly to a substantially pointed apex. The rod has front and rear walls defining a thick... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6729038 | Roller squeegee and spinner adapter A roller squeegee and spinner adapter tool is disclosed for safely, easily, speedily and thoroughly removing paint or other coating material from a roller by squeegeeing or sliding the major bulk of paint from the roller and then attaching a mini-roller to a paintbr... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6675493 | Bag dryer A holder for drying plastic bags including a base with series of interconnected sockets; and dowels, each dowel having a smooth and rounded end, to accommodate a bag and an opposite end being inserted into the sockets of the base. A bag is placed upside-d... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6598313 | Equipment for drying bales for forage of any shape whatsoever The invention produces equipment for drying bales of forage comprising: at least one unit for generating hot air (30) channeled onto at least one pair of treatment units (A, B) stack one over the other, each having a rectangular bottom chamber (2, 5) and ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6473991 | Apparatus to transport and cool rolled products such as rods, wires, round pieces or similar Apparatus to transport and cool rolled products such as bars, round pieces, rods or similar, arrangable downstream of a coil-forming head, comprising a plurality of transport rollers, at least partly motorized and parallel to each other to define a substa... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6272769 | Apparatus and method for conveying of fruits over a rollerbed A device for transporting fragile articles, for example fruit and the like, along a longitudinal path of travel is disclosed. The device includes a spaced and parallel series of rotatable rollers extending along the path of travel for carrying the article... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6112427 | Cooling shaft for a roller conveyor A cooling shaft for the rollers of a roller conveyor includes a flow duct for the cooling medium and an outlet opening. The cooling shaft includes the flow duct for the cooling medium and at least one length portion extending upwardly from the flow duct, ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6079119 | Method and a device for drying A method and device for simultaneous drying bodies of air-permeable material, comprises providing a hole in each body, the hole containing a tube having an air permeable mantle and placing the bodies adjacent each other so that the holes thereof form a co... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5992050 | Desolventizer Improved desolventizer of the countercurrent type. Solvent laden solids enter a closed chamber wherein they are continuously agitated by stirrers. Steam from below rises up through a porous deck and the solids thereon whereupon the steam condenses to rele... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5555640 | Household drying center A multipurpose household drying center which can provide versatile drying functions for a wide variety of clothings, fabric articles and other household goods. A blower and a heating chamber are disposed on the top portion of a cabinet to generate forced ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5311710 | Portable curing cell A portable curing cell assembly is provided for storing tobacco for curing, the curing cell assembly may comprise a kit of component parts capable of being easily assembled and disassembled in the field. The curing cell assembly includes a frame structure... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5168642 | Tobacco drying apparatus A tobacco drying apparatus for holding stalks of tobacco in a drying barn, in which a stalk of tobacco may be inserted upwardly into the drying apparatus and is automatically held against undesired downward removal therefrom. The drying apparatus includes... | 12/08/1992 |
| 4924604 | Drying device for garments A drying device for garments or other articles consists primarily of a frame composed of a pair of tubular heating elements, which support the garment or other article that is to be dried, and a thermostat is also included in the circuit of the heating el... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4862602 | Drying frame A collapsible drying rack includes a series of horizontal tubular plastic frame elements connected together by corner elements. Each corner element has four hollow tubular arms that telescopically receive the frame members. A pair of integral, longitudina... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4790334 | Portable curing frame A portable curing frame is provided particularly adapted for use with an automated tobacco harvester. The curing frame includes a substantially rectangular frame member including a series of slotted tracks, in the form of slotted tubes, specially designed... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4338079 | Method and apparatus for subjecting mineral particles to gas flow Roller grate method and apparatus for simultaneously transporting, agitating and exchanging heat with a bed of solid mineral particles has elongated cylindrical horizontal rollers with gas passage apertures therethrough, a hopper for feeding mineral parti... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4283369 | Apparatus for making pitch fiber infusible A method of producing carbon fiber by making infusible and carbonizing pitch fiber which is obtained by melt-spinning petroleum-tar pitch or coal-tar pitch, and a method of making pitch fiber infusible in an air atmosphere containing NO2, at an... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4269593 | Roller grate material bed conveying and heat exchange apparatus providing plural bed depths Roller grate material bed conveying and heat transfer apparatus which provides plural bed depths has cylindrical horizontal rollers driven in the same direction with gas passage apertures in the rollers and filler members in the nip between adjacent rolle... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4117604 | Dryer for photographic processors A compact inexpensive dryer unit for photographic processors which includes a liquid removing squeegee unit, transport rollers and guiding means for moving photographic sheet material through the drying area, a pair of opposed tapered air distribution man... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4086709 | Holder for clothes hanger on drier A drier appliance having a cabinet provided with a plurality of outer panels cooperatively defining a vertical slit and an inwardly projecting flange at the top of the slit. A mounting structure is provided for supporting an upright member arranged for re... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4068390 | Photomask dryer The dryer is used for drying developed photomasks of the type used in manufacturing integrated circuit devices. The dryer provides a continuous flow of very clean, warm, dry air over photomasks placed in it to dry. The dryer comprises a box having a serie... | 01/17/1978 |
| 3976423 | Cooled furnace transport roller A cooled furnace transport roller comprises a hollow cylindrical roller having an intermediate furnace space portion which is adapted to be positioned in a furnace and with a stub shaft portion adjacent each end which is supported on bearing means located... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3968571 | Drying process Disclosed is a process for the removal of liquid from an absorbent substrate, comprising passing the substrate through the nip between a pair of rollers, at least one of said rollers having an effective surface of a sponge material, the sponge material ha... | 07/13/1976 |