Abstract: A grate assembly consisting of a means for receiving a mass fuel and combusting the mass fuel on a surface with the addition of a combustion gas, and discharging the remaining residue. A separate means for injection of a mix gas at multiple points along the surface where combustion is occurring. The mix gas enhancing combustion by aiding in the mixing, drying and migration of the mass fuel during the combustion process. Multiple injection means for the introduction of the mix gas along the surface where combustion is occurring and a means for controlling the rate of introduction of the gas at each point. Separate treatment zones also being defined along the surface where combustion is occurring and a means for introduction of combustion gas within each zone and a means for controlling the rate of introduction of combustion gas to each zone.

Abstract: A hot-air portable clothes drier has a carrying handle, two separate first and second casings one telescopically mateable within the other. Both casings include homogeneously dispersed hot-air exhaust ports directing exhaust air in a common direction. Each has outer cover portions with linearly extending elongated strips spaced-apart from one another. Elongated strips of a first casing mateably and telescopically intermeshing with those of a second casing. The elongated strips of each casing having free-space therebelow in the extended state and overlapping to cover and encase their opposite hot-air exhaust ports when in a retracted position of intermeshed portable intermittently locked state.

Abstract: A cooling device for cooling a web of material coming out of a drier, in particular a paper web of an offset printing machine coming out of a drier, which cooling device comprises a substantially closed housing with an inlet and an outlet slit for the web of material, said housing being provided at the outlet slit side with a feed aperture for feeding in outside air and at the inlet slit side with a discharge aperture for discharging air from the housing, the air being fed through the housing in counterflow to the direction of movement of the web of material, wherein the housing in the direction of movement of the web of material is provided with two or more cooling units placed in series which bring the infed air successively into contact with the web of material.

Abstract: An air diffuser for a hair dryer having a porous diffuser face, panels secured to the diffuser face and to one another to form a plenum chamber. A spout is attached to the plenum chamber on the side opposite the diffuser face. When the spout is fitted about the air outlet of a hair dryer, the air will pass through the plenum chamber and be diffused as it passes out through the diffuser face. The face and the panels are formed of flexible, plastic sheet material.

Abstract: A mechanism for controlling the air flow in a spray dryer having a plurality of air tubes for conducting air into the spray dryer. Each air tube has inner and outer edges. Movable control mechanisms are mounted each air tube which are movable beyond the outer edges of the said air tube.

Abstract: The dehydration process substantially consists in causing the fabric in rope form to continuously advance between at least two pairs of pressing rolls, with it being simultaneously submitted to a false twisting. The false twist causes a wringing of the fabric with the consequent partial evacuation of the liquid the fabric is sodden with. In order to improve the dehydration, a centrifugation of the twisted fabric is provided. The apparatus substantially comprises a twisting organ capable of giving a false twist to the running fabric. The twisting organ can be constituted by a revolving structure capable of causing the fabric to run along a path outside its advancement axis, with the fabric thereby simultaneously undergoing a twist and a centrifugation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum drying machine with multiple tables for drying industrial hides and similar products, including a fixed supporting frame which supports a plurality of controllably vertically movable horizontal work tables. Each of the tables has, on its upper face, a supporting and heating plate for supporting and heating the hides and, on its lower face, a closing cover which can sealingly engage the upper face of the underlying table so as to define a vacuum drying chamber. An intermediate supporting structure is provided so as to be vertically movable inside the fixed supporting frame. The tables are vertically movable in the intermediate supporting structure so as to move telescopingly with respect to the fixed supporting frame.

Abstract: The invention relates to a grill arrangement, particularly for stepped pivoting grills, with feeding means, possibly drying and firing grills and at least one vertical grill with associated horizontal grill as well as a firing burnout grill and is distinguished by at least one swirling component step (3) in the stepped pivoting grill.

Abstract: A compressed air system includes an electronic control which controls enabling and disabling of the compressor in response to pressure level variations in the system storage reservoir. The control unit responds to compressor disabling by causing the system air dryer to regenerate or purge for a predetermined time period. The timing period of a charge timer is initiated when the compressor is enabled. When the charge timer has timed out, the compressor is disabled and the air dryer purged for the predetermined time period.

Abstract: An oven employing a group of identical modular oven units, each unit divided into a main cavity with a first upper auxiliary chamber and a second lower auxiliary chamber. A barrier plate separating the upper chamber from the main cavity is gas pervious and serves as a filter to separate micron size particles and larger from entering the main chamber as the particles are carried by heated inert gas or air passing into the main cavity. The barrier plate separating the lower chamber from the main cavity is also gas pervious and serves as a sink to adsorb particles of sizes up to 100 microns. The group of modular ovens is partially surrounded by a heat transfer wall which allows heat to be rejected from the modular ovens and removed by a fluid coolant in contact with the wall.

Abstract: Apparatus including a platform including fixed forward legs and adjustable rear legs to permit tilting of the platform and effecting drainage rearwardly thereof through associated drainage openings and a sponge collector. A framework is fixedly mounted extending outwardly of the platform to define a support for a transparent cover sheet surroundingly overlying and encompassing the framework and securable to the platform utilizing complementary hook and loop fasteners formed to the platform and to the cover sheet. A vacuum blower directs drying air through the covering sheet and associated slots formed within the covering sheet through the vacuum source to effect drying of a pet contained within the cover sheet mounted on the platform. A front panel of the cover sheet includes an upper opening for positioning of a pet's head therethrough and a lower opening underlying the upper opening for securement of a leash and the like directed therethrough.

Abstract: A heater equipped pre-trap chamber is provided at the upstream side of the inlet to a vacuum diaphragm pump so that gas products and solvent drawn from a specimen in a drying chamber can be subjected to a separation operation in the pre-trap chamber to remove liquid and readily condensable vapor forms of solvent. This thereby prevents entry of liquid solvent to the pump unit where it could cause damage. The inlet to the pump is located some distance above the outlet from the pre-trap chamber so that any liquid as may carryover in the flow from the pre-trap chambers towards the pump inlet, will return to the pre-trap as a gravity induced back flow. Solvent collected in the pre-trap chamber is heated to vaporize it and pass it out through the pump in that form to the outside atmosphere, making the pre-trap self-cleaning.

Abstract: A thermal remediation apparatus for the combustion of hydrocarbon contaminants within particulate fill including a generally cylindrical combustion chamber having an exhaust port, an inlet, an outlet, and a mill having two shafts and four burners. The apparatus also includes a condenser including a condensing unit and a conduit, and an exhaust system including a fan, and optionally an exhaust stack, and a plate burner.

Abstract: In the sieve drum device, a screen cover is not arranged, as customary, horizontally with sieve drums located, for example, in side-by-side relationship, but rather concentrically surrounds the respective sieve drum in the region covered by the material. In order to facilitate cleaning of the screen cover, the cover is swingable swung about a joint arranged on an axis in parallel to the sieve drum axis.

Abstract: A drying apparatus which utilizes air circulation to uniformly dry articles is disclosed. The apparatus includes an enclosure having racks upon which the articles to be dried are placed. An air exchanger couples to the enclosure to recirculate and heat air within the enclosure. Recirculation operates continuously while articles are being dried, and recirculation air temperature is maintained around a predetermined level through a thermostat coupled to heating elements. The air exchanger is configured so that air expelled from the air exchanger travels upward near the enclosure's walls, then downward in the center of the enclosure back to the air exchanger. An exhaust fan is controlled by a humidistat to remove humid air from the enclosure whenever the humidity within the enclosure exceeds a predetermined level. Consequently, a mean humidity level is maintained within the enclosure to prevent excessive drying, and substantial recirculation of air results in improved efficiency.

Abstract: Pendant superheater or reheater tubes are maintained in spaced relationship by pairs of collar elements joined together in a closely adjacent relationship. One of the collar elements is dimensioned allow for vertical movement of the tube over which it is fitted throughout the range of temperatures to which the tubes are exposed. The other collar is mechanically fixed to the adjacent tube without welding or other means of physically joining in a manner which prevents vertical or rotational movement. The paired collars are physically joined as by welding so that the fixed collar fixes the spacing between tubes and maintains them in the same horizontal plane while allowing for relative vertical movement. As illustrated the fixed collar is locked by being mounted on a curved tube section having a curvature sufficient to prevent relative vertical movement and through interference with the collar wall to prevent relative rotational motion.

Abstract: A solar heat collector is described comprising, in combination, a plurality of fluid conduits and a mat formed of intersecting ribs and posts that provide a support surface as for a decking. One end of each post projects downward and below the intersecting ribs to form open channels between posts. The fluid conduits extend beneath the mat and are located in the channels. Each fluid conduit connects with a pair of headers which extend along opposite sides of the mat, and a pump circulates water taken from a reservoir, such as a swimming pool.

Abstract: An infrared drying system for monitoring the temperature, moisture content, or other physical property at particular zone positions along the width of a traveling web, and utilizing a computer control system to energize and control for finite time periods a plurality of infrared lamps for equalizing physical property and drying the web. The infrared drying system is particularly useful in the graphic arts industry, the coating industry and the paper industry, as well as any other applications requiring physical property profiling and drying of the width of a traveling web of material. The infrared drying system profiles a physical property across the width of the web by a sensor head which travels on a belt supported above the web, and inputs the information into a computer to generate signals corresponding to the measured physical property for each particular segment portion along the width of the web above or below a setpoint.

Abstract: A body dryer especially suitable as a portable body dryer is provided. A platform for supporting the feet of the user is formed with apertures therethrough and an upwardly extending surface portion at least in the region of the user's toes to spread same. An upwardly extending region along the central longitudinal axis may be provided to spread the feet of the user. A fan is provided below the platform to force air through the apertures.

Abstract: A method for making stir-in type halophosphate phosphors to obtain a fluffy, deagglomerated powder is disclosed. A wet phosphor filter cake is fed into a toroidal-shaped direct-fired glass flash dryer in which a hot gaseous stream is circulating. The wet phosphor particles are suspended in the stream while the remaining liquid is evaporated. The dried phosphor powder is ejected from the dryer by centrifugal force and collected. Recovery efficiency of the process is about 99.9 percent.