| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 034611000 | Sheet, web, or strand | 30 |
| 20080244925 | AIR KNIFE AND SUBSTRATE DRYING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An air knife capable of preventing drying defects during substrate drying processes includes an inlet through which air is supplied from an outside of the air knife, a chamber which stores the air flowing through the inlet, and an outlet which is connected to the chamber and sprays the air stored in the chamber on a substrate, and a main body having a lower end portion extending from the outlet and past at least a portion of the chamber, wherein an angle between the lower end portion of the main body and a body reference line extended from the outlet is less than 40 degrees. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090007453 | Flame Dryer - The object of the invention is an dryer in the dryer section ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090031581 | CONVECTIVE SYSTEM FOR A DRYER INSTALLATION - The present invention concerns a convective system for a dryer installation for a passing web, more particularly paper. The convective system | 02-05-2009 |
| 20100269367 | DEVICE FOR BLOWING GAS ONTO A FACE OF A TRAVELING STRIP OF MATERIAL - A gas blower device for blowing gas onto a face of a traveling strip of material. The device has at least one hollow box fitted with a plurality of tubular nozzles pointing towards the face in question of the strip of material. On the side facing towards the face in question of the strip of material, the hollow box presents a surface of profile (P) that varies in at least one given direction (D) symmetrically about a midplane (Q) perpendicular to the plane of the strip. The tubular nozzles are fastened via their roots to the varying-profile surface in such a manner that their respective axes are essentially orthogonal to said varying profile at the point in question, said tubular nozzles having respective lengths that are selected so that the outlet orifices lie in a common plane substantially parallel to the plane of the strip. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110232126 | DRYING SYSTEM OF A COATED CONTINUOUS FILM - A drying system of a coated continuous film equipped with roller conveyor devices of the continuous film that allow easy and rapid removal of the rollers from the system to facilitate cleaning and maintenance operations. The conveyor roller is substantially separable into two parts with at least one of the two support shafts separable from the rest of the roller to facilitate the disassembly and reassembly operations of the conveyor roller from and on the system. In this way, it is unnecessary to remove all the motion transmission elements connected to one of the two support shafts. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20130104417 | DRYING DEVICE FOR GLASS SUBSTRATE WITH ALIGNMENT LIQUID SPRAYED THEREON AND CONVEYING APPARATUS WITH THE SAME | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130125414 | BLOW DRYING MECHANISM FOR WORKPIECES - A blow drying mechanism for drying plate-like members with pressurized air is disclosed. The blow drying mechanism includes an air inlet wall defining at least one inlet and an air outlet wall defining at least one outlet communicating with the at least one inlet. The at least one outlet is an elongated slot. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20140047735 | Cleaning Apparatus for Glass Substrate - The present invention discloses a cleaning apparatus for glass substrate, and which includes an air knife and a conveying device. The air knife is used to dry the glass substrate. The conveying device includes a primary roller set for carrying and advancing the glass substrate, and an auxiliary roller set which is arranged before the air knife and above the primary roller set. The glass substrate is fed and advanced jointly by the operation of the primary roller set and the auxiliary roller set. By this arrangement, the damage rate of the glass substrate can be lowered, while the yield of the glass substrate can be increased. | 02-20-2014 |
| 034618000 | For flexible sheet, web, or strand | 22 |
| 20090107004 | Clothes Drying Facilitating System - A clothes drying facilitating system for being place in a clothes dryer with clothes to expedite the drying of the clothes includes a plurality of clothes. A sheet is insertable into the clothes dryer. The sheet is flexible to tumble in the clothes dryer and pass between the clothes when the clothes dryer is drying the clothes. The sheet includes an exterior layer and an interior layer encased by the exterior layer. The interior layer is comprised of a heat adsorbing material to be heated by the clothes dryer. The sheet transfers heat absorbed by the interior layer to the clothes to expedite drying of the clothes as the sheet passes between the clothes. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090107005 | STEAM BLOWER BOX UNIT - A method of moving a steam blower box out of an operating position opposite a fiber material web to be treated includes the steps of: moving the steam blower box out generally transversely with respect to a web running direction from an operating position with a withdrawal device at least partly integrated in the steam blower box; and returning the steam blower box back into the operating position. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090133286 | METHOD AND MACHINE FOR PRE-DRYING STAMP-PRINTS - The present invention provides an apparatus or machine to pre-dry fabric prints, wherein said machine comprises: A) a moving heat source that moves along a fixed long straight arm; B) a motor that powers the moving heat source by means of a belt; C) a control unit that commands the motor; and D) a stand for the fixed long arm with the heat source, and for the motor; wherein the heat source moves momentarily forth from a zero position along the long straight arm to a position on the top of a fabric that have been printed with a layer of fabric dye, and then the heat source moves back to the zero position. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20110099839 | DRYING APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE TAPE - A drying apparatus for manufacturing a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape in which a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is formed on a strip-shaped long tape base material is provided. The drying apparatus dries coating agent coated at least on one surface of the tape base material. The tape base material that is transferred in a lengthwise direction thereof is spirally wound around a cylinder body from one end side of the cylinder body to the other end side of the cylinder body in a slidable state. The cylinder body is formed with a plurality of air holes on an entire circumferential wall thereof, around which the tape base material is spirally wound, the air holes through which warm air or hot air flows from the inside of the cylinder body to the outside of the cylinder body. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110146103 | Towel Dryer - A towel dryer includes an aluminum body having an outer surface that supports a towel to be dried. The surface has a degree of reflectance of not less than 80% for more efficient transfer of heat from the body to the towel. The outer body surface is an oxidized surface to resist corrosion, and a clear coating may be provided over the surface. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20160054060 | DEGASSING DEVICE - A degassing device, allowing efficient maintenance and including upper and lower rollers which advance a film-forming material in an advancement direction while vertically conveying the same, a plate heater arranged adjacently to the film-forming material moving back and forth between the rollers, and a chamber including an outer wall. The outer wall includes a front wall and a rear wall each including an upper roller support unit and a lower roller support unit. In at least one of the front wall and the rear wall, a between-roller opening is formed in the region between the upper roller support unit and the lower roller support unit, and the between-roller openings have a shape cutting across the moving film-forming material and the plate heater in the advancement direction. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160076811 | DROPLET REMOVAL APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL FILM - A droplet removal apparatus comprises a first liquid-scraping unit and a second liquid-scraping unit which are displaced from each other in an up-down direction along a movement direction of the optical film and arranged, respectively, on right and left sides across the optical film. Each of the first and second liquid-scraping units comprises a liquid-scraping member for scraping off the droplets, and a liquid-scraping member holding mechanism comprising a pressing-side holding member, a support-side holding member having a pair of angle adjustment shafts provided, respectively, at longitudinally opposite ends thereof to protrude outwardly. The pressing-side holding member and the support-side holding member are detachably fastened together in such a manner as to cooperatively hold the liquid-scraping member. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160177508 | INSTALLATION FOR DRYING A DAMP NON-WOVEN WEB | 06-23-2016 |
| 034619000 | Including horizontal support | 1 |
| 20110219641 | SEASONING APPARATUS - A seasoning apparatus includes: a table on which a stack of paper sheets is loaded; a ceiling plate which is arranged above the table to cover an upper side of the paper stack on the table; a front side plate and a rear side plate which are arranged to oppose to each other at front and rear sides of the paper stack on the table, at least one of the front and rear side plates being advanceable and retractable relatively to each other; a right-hand side plate and a left-hand side plate which are arranged to oppose to each other at a right-hand side and a left-hand side of the paper stack on the table, at least one of the right-hand and left-hand side plates being advanceable and retractable relatively to each other; and an air blowing device which blows air horizontally toward the paper stack on the table. | 09-15-2011 |
| 034620000 | Including roller-type conveyor | 3 |
| 20090165332 | DRYER ARRANGEMENT - A dryer arrangement for drying a paper-, cardboard-, tissue- or other fibrous web in a machine for the production and/or conversion of same includes: at least one heated dryer cylinder which is wrapped at least partially by the fibrous web and at least one outer support belt; a pressure hood which impinges the dryer cylinder in the wrap area with a pressurized liquid or gaseous medium, whereby the temperature of the medium is lower than the temperature on the outside of the dryer cylinder in the wrap area; and at least one support belt which is routed over a guide roller immediately prior to and/or after the wrap of the dryer cylinder, the diameter of the dryer cylinder being greater than 1.5 m, the diameter of the guide roller being greater than 400 mm, and the angle of wrap of the support belt being greater than 150°. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20120023773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THERMAL GRADIENT CONTROL IN THIN SHELL STRUCTURES - The present invention reduces thermal stresses in a rotating, foraminous thin-shelled roll for drying permeable and semi-permeable webs by blocking axial flow of heated air through the axial channel formed between two corrugated layers in the shell. The axial channels extend between spaced-apart, parallel end members each having an inner face, and a plurality of alternating straight thin divider strips and bent thin strips extending axially between and evenly-spaced around the circumference of the inner faces of the end members to form an annular cylinder with radial channels therethrough. Affixing at least one impermeable into a radial channel so that it extends through the radial channel and across at least a portion of the faces of the two tiers of bent strips blocks the axial channel therebetween and prevents the passage of air therethrough to the end member. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20140033564 | PLANT FOR CONTINUOUSLY DRYING A COATED FILM - Disclosed is a plant for continuously drying a coated film including a cavity ( | 02-06-2014 |
| 034621000 | Including means to suspend work | 2 |
| 20110072682 | Forced air coat hanger - A multiple garment drying apparatus for drying garments that includes a hot air source and blower assembly attached to a garment hanging assembly. The garment hanging assembly includes two upward extending hot air transfer arms that connect to two hot air ports on the blower assembly. The garment hanging assembly includes two upward extending air tubes. Attached to the ends of the two arms is a hollow, transverse hollow brace with two upward extending outer end brackets attached to the opposite ends of said hollow brace. Attached to the upper ends of the two end brackets is an upper shoulder component used to support a jacket placed thereon. The upper should component includes a plurality of air vents that enable air delivered below said upper shoulder component to travel upward and through the upper shoulder component. During operation, air from the hot air source and blower assembly is delivered to the two transfer arms. The air from the two transfer arms is then transmitted to the transverse brace which allows the hot air to flow upward into the space located above the transverse brace. The air vents in the upper shoulder component enable hot air to travel through the upper shoulder component and contact the inside surface of the jacket to sweater hung over the upper shoulder component. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20150289729 | TOWEL RACK - The towel holder of the present system provides a wide bar section that separates the two halves of a towel placed on the holder. This allows greater air flow and space between the two sides of the towel, promoting faster drying, fresher smell, and shorter drying times between uses. The bar section in one embodiment is perforated or mesh so that the air flow to the portion of the towel contacting the rack center bar is increased, improving the drying time and increasing the likelihood that the entire towel will dry at approximately the same rate. | 10-15-2015 |
| 034623000 | Running length | 6 |
| 20080276488 | Step air foil web stabilizer - Web stabilizer particularly for one-sided flotation of a running web. The device includes two discharge slots which allow for increased draw down force, which flattens machine direction wrinkles in a floating web. There is a primary discharge slot and a second discharge slot spaced from and stepped down from the primary discharge slot, a first web support surface between the primary discharge slot and the secondary discharge slot, and a second web support surface downstream of the secondary discharge slot in the direction of web travel. An integral blower provides a supply of air that is uniformly distributed to the primary and secondary slots. Air discharged from the primary slot is gathered into the air stream of the secondary slot and creates an increased air cushion to provide greater support to the web and thereby remove machine direction web wrinkles caused by higher tension in light weight webs. | 11-13-2008 |
| 034629000 | With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material | 5 |
| 034634000 | Having sealing means | 1 |
| 20140026437 | OXIDATION FURNACE - An oxidation furnace for the oxidative treatment of fibers, in particular for producing carbon fibers, with a housing which is gas-tight, apart from passage areas for the carbon fibers, and a process chamber located in the interior of the housing. Hot air can be blown into the process chamber by at least one air inlet device. Deflecting rollers flanking the process chamber guide the fibers arranged side by side in the form of a carpet through the process chamber in a serpentine manner, wherein each fiber carpet spans a plane between opposite deflecting rollers. The air inlet device allows hot to be diverted to the side of the deflecting rollers facing away from the process chamber such that hot air flows over the respective deflecting roller and the fibers before it enters the process chamber. | 01-30-2014 |
| 034638000 | Including gas or vapor nozzle or distributor outlet | 2 |
| 20100050468 | Paired air bar/hole bar arrangement in web dryer - Apparatus and method for the non-contact drying of a web of material. The apparatus includes air flotation nozzles for floating the web, and direct air impingement nozzles for enhanced drying of the web. The nozzle arrangement is particularly well-suited to float and dry light weight webs under moderate to high tension. Increased cushion pressure is created to support the web preferably with the same horsepower as conventional arrangements. The increased cushion pressure pad of the nozzle arrangement allows for good flotation with reduced velocities below about 11,500 FPM. Machine direction wrinkles are removed and the result is positive flotation with no marking on the web or ink build up on the air bars. The nozzle arrangement includes pairs of flotation nozzles directly opposing pairs of direct impingement nozzles. A perforated member can be positioned between flotation nozzles within a pair of flotation nozzles to control return air. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20120210599 | AIR INJECTION NOZZLE, AND TENTER OVEN USING THE NOZZLE - An air injection nozzle has an air injection face with a number of air injection holes arrayed at an interval (Py) in first and second staggered rows. The first row and the second rows are positioned at an interval (Px). The air injection face and the sheet running face confront each other at a distance (L). The air injection holes in the air injection face have a diameter (D). The interval (Px), the interval (Py), the distance (L) and the diameter (D) satisfy Formula (1): 6≦(L/D)/(Px/Py)≦9, and Formula (2): 4≦L/D≦8. This air injection nozzle is employed as a resin film heat treating apparatus in a tenter oven to be used for manufacturing the resin film. | 08-23-2012 |
| 034639000 | Having gas or vapor flow transverse to treated material movement | 1 |
| 20090158618 | DRYER FOR FUEL MATERIAL - The invention relates to a dryer for drying fuel materials such as wood bark, wood chips, sludge, garbage, peat moss or the like. In a preferred embodiment the dryer comprises a conveyor, consisting of twin endless belts, which carries the material to be dried along a vertical path defined between parallel runs of the endless belts, and ductwork which serves to direct heated air (received from any appropriate source) across the vertical path to remove moisture from the material as it is being conveyed. The ductwork includes at least one feed duct for use in delivering the heated air to one side of the vertical path, and at least one exhaust duct for use in withdrawing moisture-laden air on another side of the vertical path. Suction is applied at the exhaust ducts to draw drying air through the ductwork, and the feed and exhaust ducts are made to seal against the conveyor to reduce the introduction of ambient air into the dryer ductwork under the suction applied. | 06-25-2009 |
| 034640000 | Fluid current support or guide | 1 |
| 20090007454 | NOZZLE INSERT FOR A YANKEE IMPINGEMENT HOOD - The present invention includes a nozzle insert for use in a drying machine of the type used in paper web drying. The nozzle insert of the present invention includes at least one intake having a central portion, wherein a pair of center vanes is disposed for directing airflow. The central portion is bounded by at least one turning vane adapted for directing airflow in a lateral direction. For each turning vane, there is at least one straightening vane adapted for curtailing swirling of the airflow. The vanes are oriented at optimal angles for directing the flow of the nozzle in a lateral direction, while permitting some air to penetrate the central portion through a series of ports. The intakes are bounded by a series of insulated bulkheads, which serve to direct airflow and contain heat-loss through thermal emission. | 01-08-2009 |
| 034658000 | Endless conveyor or movable gripper | 2 |
| 034659000 | Endless conveyor | 2 |
| 20120060388 | Air Bar Arrangement For Drying Tissue On A Belt - Apparatus and methods particularly suited for drying tissue grade paper. In certain embodiments, a wet web, such as a web exiting a tissue manufacturing machine, is transferred to an air floatation dryer with specially arranged air bars and impingement nozzles described herein where the wet web is dried while still at least partly supported by an air-permeable belt. In certain embodiments, the specially arranged air floatation dryer comprises one or more air floatation dryer units through which the wet web is conveyed by way of a supporting endless loop or belt of air-permeable construction. The air bars and opposing impingement nozzles are so arranged as to force the web into contact with the belt and then subsequently lift the web from the belt surface in a repetitive and alternating fashion as the web and belt travel through the dryer. | 03-15-2012 |
| 034661000 | Endless conveyor having material hanger | 1 |
| 20100139117 | SUPPORT ELEMENT FOR PIECES OF PASTA AND PASTA WORKING PLANT PROVIDED WITH SUCH SUPPORT ELEMENT - The present invention relates to a pan-like support element designed to be hung, in use, for transporting sheet material throughout a sheet material working plant, comprising:
| 06-10-2010 |
