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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7358867 | Content independent data compression method and system Systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content independent data compression and content dependent data compression. In one aspect, a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340103 | Adaptive entropy encoding/decoding for screen capture content Adaptive entropy encoding and decoding techniques are described. For example, a screen capture encoder and decoder perform adaptive entropy encoding and decoding of palettized screen capture content in screen capture video. The encoder selects between different entr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 6438862 | Drying apparatus for coffee beans and similar crops The invention is a distributed airways airflow dryer system for coffee beans and other such bulk crops. The interior volume or container of the dryer or dehydrator system that holds the bulk crops, is filled with an airways network structure that provides... | 08/27/2002 |
| 5862611 | Apparatus and method for cooling a granular material using ambient air An apparatus and method for cooling a granular material, such as a phosphate fertilizer, using ambient air is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cooling device and a conveyor assembly for feeding the material. The cooling device includes a rotatable asse... | 01/26/1999 |
| 4924601 | System for conditioning grain A system for conditioning grain in a sealed container through the removal of liquid from a bushel of grain by sequentially evacuating high relative humidity air from the sealed container and thereafter allowing dry environmental air to reenter the sealed ... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4875904 | Coffee bean roaster A coffee-bean roaster for small quantities of coffee, which has a cylindrical roasting chamber (11) and in which only one fan (35) is provided for roasting and for cooling, is described. The coffee beans are roasted in the roasting chamber as a result of ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4715188 | Method and cooler for cooling granular material A Clinker cooler has a stationary tubular body (4) with a material inlet (3) connected to a kiln (1) and a material outlet (5). Material (18) is repeatedly raised into the path of cooling air from a fan (7) by blasts of air from a row of blasters (8).... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4683666 | Coffee roaster A coffee roasting apparatus which includes a coffee roaster device which comprises a cylindrical container formed preferably of glass material, a cylindrical drum rotatably extending within the center portion of container, and a heater element disposed wi... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4625431 | Strip cooling apparatus for continuous annealing furnace A strip cooling apparatus for a continuous annealing furnace for continuously treating longitudinally fed steel strip has a pair of cooling gas chambers attached to the furnace walls on both sides of the strip so that the front of each chamber faces the s... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4587959 | Hot and cold therapeutic applicator A single casing houses first and second blowers for expelling air through first and second outlet passages. One of the outlet passages incorporates a heater so that hot air can be expelled. The other passage is free of any heater so that cool air is expel... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4575951 | Closed chamber dryer Disclosed is a dryer for drying articles, such as laboratory glassware. The dryer is in the form of a sealable cabinet having an internal heater, and ducting in the form of a closed circulatory loop connected to an external blower. By recirculating air th... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4263724 | Traveling web drying apparatus A freshly printed continuously traveling paper web leaves a heated print drying zone hot with its printing dry enough to avoid smudging but retaining a residual amount of the printing ink's solvent oil which continues to vaporize, forming a boundary layer... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4217701 | Bin grain dryer A generally vertically disposed bin arranged to receive grain to be dried. Moist grain enters the bin through the top at which point it is distributed relatively uniformly over the full planar area thereof. The bin is equipped with a first floor having ai... | 08/19/1980 |
