| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 034165000 | Gravity flow type | 21 |
| 20120011736 | GRAIN TURNER FOR TOWER GRAIN DRYER AND METHOD OF DRYING - A grain turner for turning grain in a drying tower includes opposed generally vertical side walls and a generally vertical dividing plate (which is shorter than the side walls) extending between the side walls; the dividing plate defining inner and an outer vertical channels in a portion of the turner. An inner inclined plate is pivotally connected to one side wall to be within the inner channel and an outer inclined plate is connected to the other side wall to be within the outer channel. The inclined plates are pivotal between a first position in which they are inclined downwardly in a opposite widthwise directions and a second position in which they are generally adjacent their respective side walls. The inclined plates have a length such that when they are in the first position, their lower edges are proximate a bottom of the divider plate. Further, the inner and outer inclined plates each define a curve such that when the inclined plates are in the raised position, the inner inclined plate directs grain from the inner channel to the space below outer channel and the outer inclined plate directs grain from the outer channel to the space below the inner channel. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120030961 | Drying Apparatus under Reduced Pressure for Plastic Molding Material - A drying apparatus under reduced pressure for a plastic molding material. The apparatus comprises a drying hopper provided with an airtight material charge valve capable of containing gas therein at its upper portion and a material discharge valve at its lower portion, and connected to a vacuum pump via vacuum piping, a heating means of thermal conduction type provided in the drying hopper, and a plastic material adherence preventing means in which a gas charge port connected to a gas tank storing gas via a gas changeover valve is provided between the material discharge valve and the drying hopper and stored gas is fed into the drying hopper by opening the gas changeover valve after predetermined time, thereby preventing adherence of plastic molding material. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20130014403 | Dryer Load Chute - A chute for a laundry system having an inwardly tapered body extendng from an open top area towards a closed bottom end. The top edge of the chute is laterally spaced from the dryer unit and vertically spaced above the opening of the dryer's load door, while the bottom edge is connected to or abutting the dryer unit at a position vertically spaced just coincident with or below the load door. Side walls enclose the sides of the chute relative to the dryer. The door is equipped with a motor and mechanism for automatically opening and closing during loading and operation, respectively. The door may form the bottom trough portion of the chute. A programmable logic controller synchronizes the opening and closing of the door with the sling type rail system that drops the garments through the chute to eliminate the need for operator involvement with regard to the door. | 01-17-2013 |
| 034166000 | Trough or tube, with axially rotary conveyor or agitator | 1 |
| 20190145706 | GRAIN DRYER UNLOAD SYSTEM | 05-16-2019 |
| 034167000 | Plural gravity path, plural feed, and/or discharge | 4 |
| 20100223802 | CONTINUOUS DRYING APPARATUS - The inner space of a drying tank | 09-09-2010 |
| 20120311883 | TOWER GRAIN DRYER - A rotatable grain tower mounted on a stationary base. The base includes an opening for the removal of grain from a grain plenum in the tower. As the tower is rotated, a metering device adjacent the opening meters the rate of grain exiting the plenum. The rotating tower alleviates uneven drying due to sun, wind and other conditions to more evenly dry grain in the plenum. A cleaning device may be positioned adjacent the tower to clean the plenum as the tower rotates, thereby eliminating catwalks and other expensive equipment and devices used for cleaning stationary towers. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130014404 | GRAIN DRYER WITH DOUBLE PASS AIRFLOW - A continuous flow grain dryer includes airflow paths such that air passes through a grain column twice prior to exiting the grain dryer or being recirculated. The dual pass airflow defines a preheat zone in an upper portion of the grain flow paths adjacent an exhaust plenum. A heat zone is defined in the grain flow paths adjacent a high heat plenum and below the preheat zone. The dual pass airflow defines a temper zone in the grain flow paths adjacent a return plenum and below the heat zone. A cooling zone can be defined below the temper zone and adjacent the return plenum. A recirculating airflow path can provide fluid communication from the return plenum to the fan and back to the heat plenum. The burner is positioned outside the airflow path to feed ambient air into the recirculating airflow path, without recirculating airflow passing through the burner. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20160040932 | MULTIPLE INTERMITTENCE BEEHIVE GRAIN DRYER - “MULTIPLE INTERMITTENCE BEEHIVE GRAIN DRYER”, refers to a dryer of seeds and other agricultural products that can be a constructive format honeycomb type dryer designed to provide a unprecedented process of multiple intermittence during fast, gentle, non-aggressive drying process of grains and seeds through complete and safe removal of accumulated moisture, being divided into the following stages: drying-resting-drying-resting-drying, and so on until drying is complete. Exposure time to drying air is monitored and allows recirculation of humid air, it also allows batch or continuous drying with a thermally insulated plenum that removes dirty humid air located in the bottom section, without releasing it directly into the environment, with advantages of low production cost, dry grain of much higher quality, better energy efficiency, environmentally friendly and capable of virtually eliminating any accidental risks. | 02-11-2016 |
| 034168000 | With gas or vapor flow for contact with treated material | 12 |
| 20080209752 | Design And Construction Of Air Ventilation Tiles - The invention concerns the optimization of the design, manufacture and insertion of air ventilation pipes equipping air ventilation tiles and their associated plugs. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080301969 | Apparatus and Method for Thermally Removing Coatings and/or Impurities - This invention relates to apparatus for de-coating and/or drying coated and/or contaminated materials. The apparatus comprising a support: and an oven ( | 12-11-2008 |
| 20100107434 | DRYING HOPPER - [Problem to Be Solved] The present invention realizes and provides a drying hopper which, with the construction of the hopper itself being simplified, allows the absorption capacity of the dry air to be effectively utilized for improving the drying efficiency and the drying time for the resin materials to be shortened. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20120174427 | COUNTER-CURRENT SHAFT, DRAWER-TYPE DRYER WITH MOVING DRAWERS FOR DRYING AGGLOMERATES OF A SMALL MECHANICAL STRENGTH - A counter-current shaft dryer with moving shelves for drying agglomerates of a small mechanical strength having a vertical shaft, which comprises a top charging zone, a multi-level drying zone, preferably comprising from two thru six levels and a bottom discharging zone. An outlet stub pipe or outlet collector of drying gases situated between the bottom discharging zone and the drying zone. An outlet stub pipe or outlet collector of moist gases situated between the drying zone and the top charging zone. Shelves of the charging zone and the discharging zone are made of a number of rectangular not perforated sheet metal plates. Shelves of the drying zone are made of a number of rectangular perforated sheet metal plates. Every rectangular metal sheet plate shelf is attached along its long edge to parallel pins mounted swiveling to walls of the shaft, transverse against the axis of the shaft. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130091721 | DEVICE FOR DRYING AND PREHEATING PARTICULATE FEEDSTOCK - A device for drying and preheating particulate feedstock for glass melting apparatuses including a vertical shaft in which a plurality of gas guides are arranged level by level. The shaft has at least one gas channel for exhaust gases from the melting apparatus. a) feedstock guide elements are arranged one above another within the shaft with lateral spacings on all sides, with a portion of the gas guides extending through the guide elements, b) at least one of the guide elements is mounted in a transversely movable fashion with respect to the shaft independently of other guide elements, c) the guide elements are provided with converging oblique surfaces for introducing the feedstock at upper ends of the guide elements and with converging oblique surfaces for the emergence of the feedstock at lower ends of the guide elements, and d) at least one guide element is connected to a vibrating drive. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20140115914 | DESOLVENTIZER TOASTER - An improved desolventizer toaster. The invention includes a housing. Within the housing, a first set of trays and a second set of trays are mounted. The first trays and second trays are disposed such that they are generally vertically spaced from one another and in a generally parallel disposition with respect to each other. Means for mixing vapors are provided, and they are positioned in a vapor mixing zone which is intermediate the first set of trays and second set of trays. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140325864 | COLLAPSIBLE AERATION SYSTEM FOR RETROFITTING A GRAIN BIN - A novel collapsible aeration system is retrofitted into a grain bin with a discharge opening in the bottom. This grain bin may have a sloped or conical hopper or a flat bottom. The aeration system is formed from a set of connected (e.g. hinged) duct sections that define a round or multi-sided duct having a minimum of three sides or faces. The sides may be flat, curved or corrugated. The collapsible aeration system is folded (collapsed), inserted into the bin via a hole, and then unfolded inside the bin. An air duct is connected to the aeration system to enable the aeration system to dry the grain in the grain bin. This technology enables existing grain bins to be retrofitted with a dryer in an easy and efficient manner. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20150107129 | HIGH-PRECISION, MULTIDIRECTIONAL AIR CROSS-STREAM GRAIN DRIER WITHOUT GRADIENTS - A high-precision, multidirectional air cross-stream grain drier without gradients comprises a continuous drier ( | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150143710 | GAS FEEDING APPARATUS FOR POWDER AND GRANULAR MATERIAL FEEDER - In a gas feeding apparatus for a powder and granular material feeder, in which a powder and granular material | 05-28-2015 |
| 034171000 | Shelf-to-shelf or zigzag treated material flow | 1 |
| 20090158610 | Thermal coal upgrading processor - An apparatus for heating low rank coal having a processor with transverse baffles. Coal is introduced into the top of the processor and passes through the processor by gravity. Heated relatively inert gas is introduced into the processor and flows through the coal, heating the coal and removing moisture from the coal. The temperature of the heated process gas, the size of the coal, the size of the inlet and outlet openings of the processor and the rate of flow of the coal are selected for optimum efficiency. | 06-25-2009 |
| 034174000 | Foraminous distributors or walls | 2 |
| 20140245626 | Pistachio/Nut Dryer Assembly - The present invention provides an improved continuous vertical feed pistachio nut dryer that has an inner compartment with inner passageways and an infeed assembly with a batch hopper used in conjunction with an auger and pivotal gates to provide a structure configured to evenly fill the inner passageways along the length of the dryer. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20150369537 | COLUMN NARROWING DIVIDER FOR A GRAIN DRYER - A grain dryer having a column with an interior wall, an exterior wall, an inlet and an outlet. The column has an upper heated pressurized plenum and a lower, low pressure, suction plenum. Attached to the interior wall within the column is a narrowing divider that increases the path of the heated air at the pressure gradient. | 12-24-2015 |
| 034175000 | With venting means or wall | 1 |
| 20140298672 | LOCKING AND UNLOCKING OF CONTACLESS GESTURE-BASED USER INTERFACE OF DEVICE HAVING CONTACTLESS GESTURE DETECTION SYSTEM - A locking/unlocking mechanism for a contactless gesture detection system of a device is described herein. The locking/unlocking mechanism can facilitate automatic locking, manual locking, and/or manual unlocking of the contactless gesture detection system. The contactless gesture detection system can implement the locking/unlocking mechanisms described herein to control a contactless gesture-based user interface state of the device. In various implementations, the controlling can include detecting gestures associated with a user in a contactless space associated with the device; detecting a defined gesture sequence over a defined time period from the detected gestures; and transitioning the device to a contactless gesture-based user interface locked state or a contactless gesture-based user interface unlocked state based on the defined gesture sequence. | 10-09-2014 |
