Bizarre Patents
An aircraft having vertical takeoff and landing capability provided with at least first and second laterally extending paddle wheels rotatable on a central axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft fuselage and between its nose and tail.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7938875 | Apparatus for separating oil from blow-by gas of engine The present invention relates to a variable apparatus for separating oil from blow-by gas in an engine. More particularly, the variable apparatus of the present invention is installed in a baffle compartment of a cylinder head cover of the engine, and includes a par... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7396374 | Controlled flow grease filter for domestic extractor hoods A grease filter (1) for domestic extractor hoods comprises at least two walls (2, 3) placed face to face and having first through openings (4) made in them arranged in such a way as to cause sudden changes of direction in the fumes flowing throu... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7237801 | Gas generating system A gas generating system (10) includes a tubular outer housing (12) having a longitudinal axis (L) and one or more apertures (12d) formed therealong to enable fluid communication between an interior of the outer housing and an exterior of ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 6554879 | Trap apparatus A trap apparatus includes a discharge path for evacuating a hermetically sealed chamber through a vacuum pump, a hermetically sealed trap container extended across the discharge path and a regeneration path disposed adjacent to the discharge path, a trap ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6521010 | Filter, filtering frame, and semiconductor device manufacturing method and apparatus A semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus employs filters. The filters have openings whose diameters are reduced in proportion to the distances of the filters from cathodes. This arrangement improves the directivity of sputtered particles and evenly ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6488745 | Trap apparatus and method for condensable by-products of deposition reactions A trap for condensable liquids, such as tantalum pentoxide, has a primary trapping chamber surrounding a secondary trapping chamber and a sump connected by a small enough opening to the primary or secondary chamber such that trapped liquid in the sump is ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6264712 | Low intake restriction air precleaner An air precleaner includes a base assembly, a hood mounted to the base assembly and spaced from the base assembly to define a circumferential gap, and a rotor assembly mounted for rotation within the air space between the hood and base assembly. The base ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6171379 | Separator for separating water from a water droplet containing flow of fluid The separator is of a type comprising at least one inclined deflecting surface mounted within a fluid flowing path so that water droplets contained in the flow of fluid are separated from the fluid when the fluid is deflected by the deflecting surface. Th... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6171380 | Microprocessor cooler with integral acoustic attenuator The air drawn into a diesel engine serially passes through a filter and a cavity, which acts as an acoustic attenuator, before being supplied to the cylinders of the diesel engine. In the cavity the air is in a heat transfer relationship with a heat sink ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6156107 | Trap apparatus The trap apparatus of the present invention includes a case provided for a gas exhaust system used for a film forming equipment which carries out a film forming process on an object, a gas supply port, made in the case and connected to an exhaust pipe of ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6066195 | Accessory for duct systems A new accessory for duct systems for displaying the degree dustiness in a duct network and for trapping heavy and potentially valuable objects as they are cleaned from a duct network. The inventive device includes a housing that has an exterior wall and a... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5912368 | Air filter assembly for automotive fuel vapor recovery system In a vehicle with an internal combustion engine and a fuel vapor recovery system including a carbon canister connected to the fuel tank for collecting fuel vapors from the fuel tank as the tank is being refilled, an air filtering apparatus is provided to ... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5904757 | Trap apparatus The trap apparatus of the present invention includes a case provided for a gas exhaust system used for a film forming equipment which carries out a film forming process on an object, a gas supply port, made in the case and connected to an exhaust pipe of ... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5873930 | Water-air baffle filter A filtration device particularly for use with vacuum cleaners used for collection of fine particles which tend to clog porous solid filters. The device utilizes readily replaceable water as a filtration medium with air being forced into the water then rel... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5500271 | Paint arrestor formed from slit sheet material A paint arrestor for absorbing paint overspray comprises a series of layers of sheet material, each of the layers being slit and expanded to define an array of air spaces distributed in columns. The air spaces alternate in size from column to column and r... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5484575 | Catalytic converter for the catalytic treatment of exhaust gas The catalytic converter has a casing with an inlet and an outlet and a gas-permeable catalyst element which is arranged in the casing and has an exhaust gas entry surface. A guide surface which faces the orifice of the inlet, is a distance away from its e... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5425924 | Compact fixed-bed reactor with folded reaction path A compact fixed-bed catalytic reactor containing a plurality of staggered partitioning plates inside a reactor vessel to form a folded reaction path. The reactor is substantially rectangular in shape and each of the partitioning plates is held inside the ... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5318609 | Separator for liquids in a stream of gas, in particular for oil mist A plate separator, with a transverse throughflow for separating liquids such as an oil mist out of a stream of gas, is disclosed. A plurality of pairs of curved deflecting surfaces are provided. The deflecting surfaces are located opposite one another wit... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5318323 | Non-clogging gas filtering device A compact filtering device for use in pyrotechnic gas generators comprising of series of small conduits which generally transport the exhaust products from the combustor exit ports to the generator exit ports. Particulate traps (12): which are created by ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5051118 | Method of filtration The invention relats to a method of filtration of a gaseous flow in which the flow is passed through at least one chamber the inlet and outlet openings of which are displaced to cause a turbulent flow projecting the particles of greater size against the w... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4825652 | Smoke reduction system Disclosed is an apparatus for use in nautical craft exhaust systems for removal of smoke and gaseous pollutants from exhaust gases generated therein. The apparatus is formed of an elongate section housing a plurality of double ear arcuate baffles which ar... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4283209 | Separator for separating out particles of fatty substances from a gas current, more specifically from waste air from kitchens, and a waste air duct for the separator A separator for removing oil or fat particles from waste air, more specifically from a catering kitchen, has a system of generally parallel rods normal to the direction of the waste air current. The rods are distributed across the full cross-section of th... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4156406 | Internal combustion engine gas-oil separator A gas-oil separator includes a bowl shaped housing open to the bottom for mounting to the rocker arm cover of an internal combustion engine. The housing and an encircling gasket at the bottom is secured to the rocker arm cover by a pair of bolts passing t... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4036612 | Apparatus for separating particles from a gas stream Apparatus for separating solid substances from a stream of gas employing vertical deflecting plates extending parallel to one another but arranged inclined to the direction of gas flow. The deflecting plates are provided with open collecting grooves and w... | 07/19/1977 |
| 3990870 | Means and method for separating and collecting particulate matter from a gas flow Apparatus is disclosed for achieving separation of particulate matter from a gas flow by interacting the gas flow with a water curtain within a contacting chamber. The gas flow enters the contacting chamber tangentially near the bottom thereof whereby it ... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3938366 | Aerosol analyzer An apparatus for separating particles from a fluid comprising a housing, means for flowing a fluid through said housing, a plurality of parallel perforated plates supported in said housing spaced from one another in the direction of fluid flow, the plates... | 02/17/1976 |
