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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337553 | Lint detector methods and apparatuses Methods and apparatuses of for detecting lint are disclosed. In one embodiment, a light is directed to a plate. The light can be being emitted by a light source. A reflectometer is calibrated to a specific thermal emissivity of the plate. The thermal emission result... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7210247 | Forced gas flow canister dehydration The present invention provides a method and system for ensuring that cavities used to store radioactive elements are adequately dried without intrusive measuring. In one aspect the invention is a system for drying a cavity loaded with radioactive elements, the loade... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207124 | Clothes drying machine A clothes drying machine having a sensing switch easily installed on a motor bracket for sensing whether or not a belt for rotating a rotary drum is loose or cut. The sensing switch includes a first insertion hole having a longitudinally extended shape and a second ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7208123 | Molecular contamination monitoring system and method A flow-through monitor for detecting molecular contamination (MC) within a fluid flow. The monitor has a diffusion chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port, and a structure for supporting a fluid flow from the inlet port to the outlet port. The structure incl... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7096600 | Forced gas flow canister dehydration The present invention provides a method and system for ensuring that cavities used to store radioactive elements are adequately dried without intrusive measuring. In one aspect the invention is a method of drying a cavity loaded with radioactive elements, the loaded... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6996920 | Control method and system for clothes dryer A control method and system for a belt-driven clothes dryer are disclosed. The control system includes a drum containing a load of wet clothes to be dried, a heater heating air flowing into the drum, a motor coupled to the drum by a power transmission system for rot... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6931760 | Dryer control method and apparatus using the same A dryer control method provides for selection among a plurality of dryness levels so that the user may select a desired degree of dryness for any given type of laundry. The method includes steps of selecting one among a plurality of dryness levels; driving a drying ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6725570 | Apparatus and method for a clothing dryer having a fire protective system A clothes dryer having a fire protection system. The clothes dryer chamber has an inlet which receives drying air and an exhaust for removing moisture laden air. The temperature within the drying chamber is monitored, and a determination is made from the dryer elect... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6505418 | Apparatus and method for a clothing dryer having a fire protection system A clothes dryer having a fire protection system. The clothes dryer chamber has an inlet which receives drying air and an exhaust for removing moisture laden air. The temperature within the drying chamber is monitored, and a determination is made from the ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6493963 | Method and apparatus for dryness detection in a clothes dryer A method of programming and controlling an automatic cycle of a clothes dryer provides that, after positioning of a selection dial, a motor associated with the selection dial is rapidly moved to a predetermined location at a constant speed, while the time... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6253464 | Method for protection of lithographic components from particle contamination A system that employs thermophoresis to protect lithographic surfaces from particle deposition and operates in an environment where the pressure is substantially constant and can be sub-atmospheric. The system (thermophoretic pellicle) comprises an enclos... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5943790 | Coffee roaster chaff collector and smoke eliminator An exhaust particle and particulate containment system for a coffee roaster includes an exhaust duct for carrying exhaust coffee roasting by-products including air, gasses, smoke and chaff from the coffee roaster to a porous medium for separating chaff fr... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5899004 | Wood smoking-seasoning method A furnace is set to the floor section where wastes such as wood chips, scrapped wood, or wood pieces are put, flammable wastes such as planer chips, plane chips, bark, branches and leaves, or waste paper are arranged as an ignition material so as to cover... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5893218 | Seed dryer with automatic control of temperature air flow direction and rate An automatically controlled seed dryer of the present invention is adapted to efficiently and precisely dry seed by automatically controlling the temperatures directions and air flow rate; of air flow through the seed within the bin. The invention include... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5822883 | Exhaust air particulate contamination sensing for tumbler dryers A dryer system comprising a particle counter that measures the level of particulates in the dryer is disclosed. The dryer system is particularly adapted for drying garments to be worn in clean room environments. The dryer system preferably comprises an en... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5797196 | Seed corn drying system and method A method for providing higher yielding seed corn comprising a single-pass, reversing, high air velocity process. Another aspect of the invention concerns a conversion panel for converting a dual-pass seed corn drying system into a single-pass system.... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5718062 | Method and apparatus for preventing the occurrence of an explosive state in gas mixtures in confined spaces In a method for preventing the occurrence of an explosive state in a gas mixture, especially of solvents in air, in an essentially confined space, virtually complete oxidation of at least part of the gas mixture taking place, either the temperature differ... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5693362 | Process and apparatus for moving and treating a particulate material The apparatus has a container which contains a first filter. During operation, this separates the first interior region containing particulate material from a second interior region. The latter is connected to a downstream dust separator. This has a housi... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5675912 | Safety method for a drying system A dryer system has a combustion chamber, a dryer and a separator. The combustion chamber supplies heated gas to the dryer. Wet material is mixed with the heated gas in the dryer. The dried material is then separated from the gas in the separator. A method... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5396715 | Microwave clothes dryer and method with fire protection Microwave clothes dryer and method in which water is introduced into the chamber in response to detection of an impending fire to immediately increase the moisture content of the clothes throughout the chamber to a level which will not sustain combustion.... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5394622 | Method and apparatus for a mechanical dryer for drying thick polymer layers on a substrate A dryer with zone temperature controls for drying thick polymer-solvent layers on a substrate. The dryer is formed with several heating elements located in an air duct. The cool air is heated a specific amount as it passes each heating element. The heated... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5394623 | Fluidized bed coffee roaster A self controlled, fluidized bed coffee roaster which provides a stream of heated air to a bed of coffee beans, monitors the temperature of the air that has passed through the bean; and when the air temperatures reaches a predetermined set point, a contro... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5367787 | Drying machine A drying machine has a drying chamber for drying an article cleaned with an inflammable solvent as a detergent. A hot air supply channel communicates with the drying chamber and a heater is mounted in the hot air supply channel. A hot air evacuation chann... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5359788 | Coffee roaster A coffee roaster which roasts coffee beans in an oven chamber employing both radiant and convection heating techniques while the beans are continually intermixed in a fluidized bed rotating in the horizontal plane. Roaster control means are provided to te... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5231771 | Vacuum drying method for metallic workpieces Metallic workpieces, such as surgical needles, which have been washed with an aqueous solution are dried by subjecting the workpieces to heat and reduced pressure in the presence of an inert gas.... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5197203 | Drying equipment having a fire prevention system A drying equipment comprised of a battery of radiant heaters, a suction hood and a blower hood. It is designed to dry a moving material, paper in particular, and is equipped with a fire prevention system integrated into its cowl. The fire prevention syste... | 03/30/1993 |
| 4974338 | Drying process When it has been attempted to dry wet polymeric particles in hot air at up to 100° C. it has tended to produce discoloration in the product, introduce aggregates into the product, reduce the dispersibility of the product and reduce the integrity of the s... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4945654 | Application of superheated steam Superheated steam is applied directly to the surface of a web of paper or the like to significantly increase at least the surface temperature of the web impinged by the superheated steam thereby to significantly heat the paper. The web, after steam treatm... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4597189 | Packaged kiln dried firewood A process for kiln drying firewood comprises splitting essentially uniform lengths of green tree logs to form firewood pieces. The green firewood pieces are placed in a kiln drying oven and dried at temperatures in excess of 150° F. by moving heated air ... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4586267 | Automated reversible-dryer control system A control system for a dryer capable of displacing a load to be dried in at least two directions periodically determines a time interval for the present temperature of the load to reach one predetermined temperature from another predetermined temperature ... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4490924 | Method and apparatus for drying materials while being conveyed Method of and apparatus for use in drying materials in a dryer through which the material is conveyed and there subjected to heat which decreases from a maximum adjacent the infeed end of the dryer to a minimum adjacent the outfeed end thereof. A controll... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4387514 | Method for drying oil well drill cuttings A method for drying oil well drill cuttings to eliminate pollution causing organic material from the cuttings includes conveying the drill cuttings bearing the organic material to a heat transfer zone. Large quantities of relatively warm fixed gas are sup... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4147502 | System for control of thermal potential A system is disclosed for controlling the thermal potential of an airstream containing combustible vapors such as is exhausted from a metal sheet treating oven. The system includes a sensing chamber into which the airstream is directed, a burner in the ch... | 04/03/1979 |
| 3986269 | Drying plastics Particles, e.g. granules, of plastic materials are dried by blowing air heated to 0.5° - 5° C below the sticking temperature of the granules through a bed of the particles. The air temperature is controlled by means of a proportional controller having i... | 10/19/1976 |
