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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7260901 | Device for controlling the temperature of objects The invention relates to a device for controlling the temperature of objects, especially for drying or cooling objects, said device comprising a housing containing at least two tempering units which are arranged in a functionally parallel manner. Each tempering unit... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7240440 | Installation for drying waste, in particular wastewater purifying sludge The system dries pasty or powdery products such as sludge from wastewater purifying stations, the drying occurring in a chamber receiving the products to be dried. The system includes a greenhouse with translucent or transparent walls erected on a slab upon which a ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 6951065 | Method and apparatus for controlling gas flow through granulate in drying hoppers Method and apparatus for drying granulate material in a hopper by controlling the amount of gas which flows through the hopper to heat and to dry the granulate. The control allows to use a minimum amount of gas for heating the granulate to the drying temperature and... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6651357 | Web dryer with fully integrated regenerative heat source and control thereof Integrated web dryer and regenerative heat exchanger, as well as a method of drying a web of material using the same. The apparatus and method of the present invention provides for the heating of air and the converting of VOCs to harmless gases in a fully... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6425192 | Clothes drying and dewrinkling cabinet A cabinet for clothes drying and dewrinkling which comprises a main enclosure that defines an inner area for housing clothes, a fan for supplying air to the inner area, a steam generator for supplying steam to the inner area, a controller for regulating t... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6170427 | Radiation curing system An apparatus and method for rapidly drying and curing a waterborne coating as applied by a spray gun, or other means, to a product traveling on a moving continuous conveyor track. The conveyor track passes through a drying section which uses recycled filt... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6161311 | System and method for reducing particles in epitaxial reactors An apparatus and method for reducing particles in reactors. The apparatus includes an enclosure for processing the semiconductor wafers. The enclosure has a wafer handling chamber connected by an isolation gate valve to a processing chamber. Additionally,... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5921002 | Radiation curing system An apparatus and method for rapidly drying and curing a waterborne coating as applied by a spray gun, or other means, to a product traveling on a moving continuous conveyor track. The conveyor track passes through a drying section which uses recycled filt... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5640784 | Non-contact flotation web guide/dryer Drying apparatus including pressure control of air supply feeding an air bar and subsequently impinging upon a web, so as to avoid or compensate for web shift without disturbing the cushion pressure and flotation techniques necessary for adequate web flot... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5068977 | Apparatus for removing water from curved glass panel after washing in production line An apparatus for removing water from a curved glass panel after washing in a production line, includes nozzles which are movable upwardly and downwardly in response to variations of the height of the curved glass panel above the conveyor so as to be held ... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5031337 | Automatic hand dryer An automatic hand dryer contains a heating element and a motor which drives a squirrel cage fan. The fan exhausts air past the heating element to a downwardly-directed outlet. A base or mounting plate is adapted for flush mounting to a wall. The axis of t... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4635381 | Paint bake oven An improved paint bake oven (10) of a modular construction is disclosed as including a convection heating module (12), exhaust modules (64), and a radiant drying module (80). The heating module (12) includes outer and inner housings (14) and (16) as well ... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4505050 | Drying apparatus for metallic belt processed in a fluid In an apparatus capable of drying metallic belts or strands of varying widths, a hot air blowing system is arranged such that the effective width of the hot-air flow is selectively adjusted according to the width of each belt intended to be dried. The oth... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4392309 | Apparatus for heat treating a continuously moving web A heat-treatment apparatus for a textile web comprises a gas-pervious conveyor belt having a stretch defining a treatment path having an upstream end and a downstream end, a system for feeding the web to the upstream end and for advancing the belt to adva... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4331510 | Steam shower for improving paper moisture profile A steam shower for reducing paper web moisture content variability in the cross machine direction is described. The local dewatering effect of the shower on the moving supported web is controlled by varying its bottom steam discharge area incrementally ac... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4325191 | Coffee roaster A coffee roaster in which roasting is automatically terminated by the provision in the roaster of a temperature sensing device which detects the temperature of the coffee beans during the steps of stirring and roasting and produces at a predetermined appr... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4312139 | Material web drier A material web drier containing a device for controlling the gas flow of a drying medium as a function of the actual state of the wet material web which is to be dried, comprising nozzle casings or surfaces containing blow-out or discharge openings arrang... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4179265 | Method and apparatus for operating rotary driers The pressure of heated gases supplied by a furnace to an induced draft, rotating drum drier, through which the material being dried is moved primarily by the heated gases, is compared with the pressure of gases discharging from the drum, and the different... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4146974 | Drying apparatus Apparatus for drying webs which includes a housing having two compartments with one compartment open on one side and having heating elements therein. The other of said compartments is closed and has air inlet and outlet openings for circulation of air nor... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4026036 | Apparatus for controlling temperature on a drying machine for running yarn sheets In a box-type continuous hot air drying machine having a drying chamber through which yarn sheets are processed, the supply rate of thermal energy into the drying chamber is automatically controlled in accordance with the running condition of the drying m... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4021929 | Controlled crop drying attachment for combine A heat exchanger is mounted to the combine and receives waste heat from the combine engine. A blower is mounted to the combine and sucks ambient air through the heat exchanger to heat the air and blows the heated air into a closed end duct that has a port... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4006534 | Variable air supply for fabric dryers A fabric dryer including a damper in the air flow system thereof which reduces air flow through a load in the initial stages of drying and increases air flow during the terminal stages of drying to promote a faster drying cycle with less consumption of fu... | 02/08/1977 |
