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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8147581 | Gas solid mixture separator A separation housing houses a rotor with multiple suspension chambers. Each chamber has a radially extending web portion between two rotating discs. An orifice is provided through the radially extending web portion. Another web portion urges gas radially out of the ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7171986 | Airflow converger An airflow converger belonging to the field of auto parts, that was developed to improve air supply conditions and performance of internal combustion engines includes: a tubular body equipped at an upper end with an air inlet, having parallel fins that direct airflo... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7004986 | Filter in a filter housing A filter has a filter housing and a receptacle chamber in the filter housing into which a filter element is insertable. The filter housing has a housing cover for opening and closing an opening of the receptacle chamber. The housing cover is situated in an area of t... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6780247 | Modular powder coating booth A modular powder recovery apparatus includes a base unit, one or more cartridge filters, and a wrapper that at least partially encloses the cartridge filters. The wrapper is designed to allow additional wrappers to be vertically stacked thereon to increase the overa... | 08/24/2004 |
| 5385612 | Cleaning system A cleaning system for removing undesirable material from an outer surface of a critical or sensitive element relatively moving in a fluid comprises a tubular duct for the flow of the fluid medium and having an entrance end an exit end. The entrance end is... | 01/31/1995 |
| 4975192 | Cyclone separator A cyclone separator including a cylindrical vessel having a tangentially extending inlet at one axial end and a tangentially extending outlet at the other axial end so that fluid is introduced into the vessel from the inlet and produces a swirl flowing to... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4761951 | Particulate extraction arrangement for automotive turbocharger or the like In order to remove particulate matter from the exhaust gases which flow into the turbine impeller scroll of a internal combustion engine turbocharger, a separator which settles or centrifugally separates the solids from the gases is disposed between the e... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4749387 | Separator for solid particles entrained in a gas flow A separator for solid particles entrained in a gas flow formed of a cold air current discharging from an expansion turbine, the separator having a collection vessel disposed in and perpendicular to the air current and including a dome-type cover disposabl... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4458494 | Preventing vaporization of the liquid in a centrifugal gas-liquid separator This patent refers to a gas-liquid separation process by centrifugal force, which takes place in a fast turning vortex confined in a tube, similar to inventor's former patents. Against the separating centrifugal force the thermal (Ranque) effect tends to ... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4342576 | Particle separator A cyclone type particle separator comprising a lower cone with a particle outlet, an intermediate cylinder and an upper truncated cone. An inlet is opened at the intermediate cylinder tangentially or involutedly thereof and adjacent to the upper end of th... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4312650 | Particle separator A multi-stage particle separator provides a scroll and cylinder configuration in which the scroll establishes a swirling chamber and a first stage of separation and the cylinder establishes a continuing and second stage of separation.... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4253857 | Apparatus for separating an entrained solid from a gas In paper-making operations and the like, fibers of wood are frequently transported through piping as an entrainment in steam. An apparatus is disclosed for separating such entrainment and removing the fibers at one station and the steam at another station... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4244708 | Method and apparatus for separating components from a flowing medium by means of centrifugal force A method and apparatus are disclosed for separating components from a flog medium by means of centrifugal force. The flowing medium travels through two stages. In the first stage a spin is generated and in the second stage the actual material separation ... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4230465 | Pollution control apparatus and method Pollution control apparatus and a method for removing particulate matter from a gas at temperatures of up to about 3000° F. are disclosed comprising a gas centrifuge having effluent and influent openings and a spray nozzle positioned to inject a stream o... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4218223 | Pre-cleaner for combustion engines Apparatus for, and the method of, cleaning air, for engines and related uses, including an air cleaner with a body having a vertical axis and including a cylindrical wall, a solid top closure, and a bottom closure including an axial, reentrant, cleaned ai... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4159899 | Precleaner assembly A precleaner assembly for the air intake system of a heavy duty vehicle ejects duct particles and other heavy material from the incoming air stream so that the heavy particles will not clog the normal vehicle air cleaner, thereby greatly increasing its li... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4136911 | Apparatus for feeding a card with fiber material An apparatus for feeding a carding machine with fiber material having a shaft which is fed by a preceding feed shaft. The fiber material is conveyed into the feed shaft by means of a stream of air flowing through a conveying conduit. An air circulating pa... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4120673 | Apparatus for separating gases from liquids An apparatus for separating gases from fluids, which apparatus includes a closed cylindrical receptacle and a cylindrical insert which divides the interior of the receptacle into an annular outer part and a cylindrical inner part. The outer part is provid... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4076508 | Debris separator for hot gas stream The disclosure concerns a separator for removing broken engine parts and other debris from the hot gases passing fro the exhaust manifold of an engine to the inlet of an associated turbocharger. The separator includes an annular separation chamber in whic... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4070168 | Inlet assembly for an oil separator The inlet assembly is mounted within a separator vessel and comprises a housing similar in shape to that of a snail shell. This housing has a generally spiral side wall closed in by top and bottom end walls. A feed pipe delivers pressurized crude oil tang... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4056371 | Method for separating immiscible fluids of different density Efficient separations of immiscible fluids of different density can be obtained in compact separation systems by passing the fluid mixture through an inertial separator having an ND value of 50 or below under specified conditions of non-atomizi... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4047912 | Turbocharger and air cleaner device A turbocharger and intake air cleaning device for use with internal combustion engines. A collection spout is mounted tangent to the volute of the diffuser housing at a position from the turbocharger's discharge port which is upstream relative to the dire... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4045194 | Apparatus for cleaning air An apparatus for cleaning air charged with contaminants, especially fibers and dust, comprising a pre-separator and a dust filter arranged after the pre-separator. At least one movable suction nozzle is effective at the surface of the dust filter. The pre... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4005998 | Separation process Particulate solids are separated from their admixture with gases or vaporized liquids by passage through a specially designed cyclone separator wherein the solids are passed down the separator to a plate modified with a circumferential groove leading to a... | 02/01/1977 |
| 3985526 | Dust collector with spaced volutes In this application there is presented a mechanical dust collector which includes an elongated cylindrical housing at the bottom of which a dirty gas stream enters through a primary volute which directs the incoming stream to a cup shroud mounted in the h... | 10/12/1976 |
