Abstract: Method and apparatus for reducing the NOX levels in stack emissions of compact boilers and fluid heaters through selective injection of exhaust flue gases into the combustion process. Flue gas injection into the primary and secondary air of the burner along with flue gas injection directly into the combustion process is utilized. Injection of generated steam from a compact boiler, selectively injected into the combustion process is also provided.

Abstract: An oven for drying the sealing compound on beverage and food can ends utilizes a prior art serpentine track along which a line of abutting can ends is conveyed through a drying chamber in which heated drying air is directed against the edges of the can ends through a plurality of linear nozzles. The improved apparatus of the present invention utilizes a drying chamber which substantially surrounds the track and includes a plurality of nozzles which direct a substantially uniform flow of drying air against all sides of the line of can ends. The improved apparatus is particularly effective in drying lining compounds on steel food can ends, but is suitable as well for the treatment of aluminum beverage can ends.

Abstract: A nozzle attachment for a hair dryer has a cylindrical element for connecting a flow-directing member to the nozzle of a hair dryer. The flow-directing member deflects the air coming from the hair dryer by a certain acute angle. The flow-directing member is rotatable relative to the cylindrical element. Vanes are provided within the flow-directing member. They are slanted to the direction of air flow from the hair dryer, so that impingement of air on the vanes causes the flow-directing member to rotate thus providing air flow having a continually varying flow direction.

Abstract: Web cooling device where liquid is applied to both sides of a hot web to enhance cooling via evaporation of the liquid from the web.

Abstract: A liquid glycol enhanced with a polymer-salt solution such as a desiccant in an air pre-conditioner system with a heat-pipe having its heat absorber section in an outside air inlet duct following water vapor adsorption into the desiccant by a contacter section of a dehumidifier, the heat-pipe having its heat rejecter section in an exhaust air duct and preferably preceeding water vapor discharge from the desiccant by a regenerater section of the dehumidifier, a desuperheater for efficient refrigerant compression, a reflux boiler for desiccant regeneration, and a glycol interchanger recovery system for desiccant recovery.

Abstract: A modular floor sub-structure is provided wherein discrete floor modules having bottom surfaces and sides extending upwardly to support paired floor tile are interconnected to sit upon a floor surface and, in turn, support rack-mounted computer components. Select ones of the floor modules contain air cooling coils and blowers, while others are provided with uninterrupted power supplies and still others retain power distribution networks. The cooling system of a given module as well as the UPS components of another given module are provided having a capacity for supporting one computer component. Where more than one computer component is to be supported by the system, then additional modules are provided to develop an expanded elevated floor surface with power and heat removal servicing specific to each computer component.

Abstract: A window air conditioner of the type having a basepan having a vertically extending partition which divides the unit into indoor and outdoor sections. The partition has a horizontally extending rib formed at the upper end thereof. The indoor section includes an evaporator coil at the front of the basepan, and a condensate pan mounted in the basepan under the evaporator coil. An evaporator fan scroll is mounted in the basepan rearwardly of the evaporator coil and is positioned by cooperation with the condensate pan and the partition. A control box is mounted in the indoor section overlying a portion of the condensate pan and has an upper surface which engages the horizontal rib formed in the partition. An indoor fan motor is mounted within the control box and drives an indoor fan which has an axis of rotation which extends parallel to the basepan and the partition, and which is spaced from the interior surface of the scroll.

Abstract: A thermal cycling system comprising an evaporator and a radiator and two separate conduits extending between the evaporator and the radiator to form a closed cycle. The evaporator is arranged to receive thermal energy available around the evaporator and the radiator radiates heat of the fluid medium flowing from the evaporator to the radiator. A power-free engine is arranged on the first and second conduits and comprises actuating pistons, at least one pressurizing cylinder, and a crankshaft operatively interconnecting the actuating pistons and the pressurizing piston. The arrangement is such that the actuating pistons are moved by the high pressure of the fluid medium in the evaporator and thereby actuate the pressurizing piston. The high pressure fluid medium is controlled such that it flows through the actuating cylinders to the radiator and radiates heat there at.

Abstract: A dual circuit absorption refrigeration system comprising a high temperature single-effect refrigeration loop and a lower temperature double-effect refrigeration loop separate from one another and provided with a double-condenser coupling therebetween. The high temperature condenser of the single-effect refrigeration loop is double coupled to both of the generators in the double-effect refrigeration loop to improve internal heat recovery and a heat and mass transfer additive such as 2-ethyl-1-hexanol is used in the lower temperature double-effect refrigeration loop to improve the performance of the absorber in the double-effect refrigeration loop.

Abstract: An air conditioning unit including a basepan upon which is mounted an indoor section in communication with the space to be conditioned. The indoor section includes an indoor heat exchanger and means for circulating air to be conditioned in heat exchange relation with the indoor heat exchanger. Also mounted on the basepan is an outdoor section in communication with ambient air and including an outdoor heat exchanger and a compressor. A partition forms a part of the basepan and divides the air conditioning unit to separate the indoor section from the outdoor section. The partition is provided with a partition opening therethrough. Refrigerant carrying lines extend between the indoor section and the outdoor section through the partition opening. An elongated section of insulating material circumferentially encloses the refrigerant tubes in the region in which they pass through the partition opening.

Abstract: A thermoelectric cooler for cooling a sample of hot, continuously flowing gas involves a mechanical heat flow path passing from the flowing gas through a heat-exchanging tube channeling the gas, a heat-conductive block housing the tube, a thermoelectric element having a cold side abutting the block, a heat sink abutting a hot side of the thermoelectric element, and cooling air streams passing through slots in the heat sink. The heat sink is a unibody, jointless metallic body having relatively thin fins defining the slots. A high pressure blower drives turbulent air streams through the slots of the heat sink, and a thermal switch is disposed on the heat sink near the hot side of the thermoelectric element.

Abstract: An absorption refrigerator is characterized by an absorber which has a tube bank of heat-conductive tubes in the absorber, a vapor flow passage between the tube bank and a side wall of the absorber which is opposite to and separated from the tube bank in a radial direction of the heat-conductive tubes by a distance equal to or larger than a maximum pitch of the heat-conductive tubes, at least a baffle plate disposed in the vapor flow passage, and a gas extraction port disposed outside the tube bank. A further arrangement is characterized by an absorber having a tube bank in the absorber, a vapor flow passage between the tube bank and a side wall of the absorber, and a gas extraction port disposed around a central portion of the tube bank.

Abstract: A condensate disposal system for an air conditioning unit of the type where moisture removed from inside air being cooled and dehumidified is conducted to a condensate collector in an outside section of the air conditioner. The system includes a condensate slinger which extends into the condensate collector to pick up and distribute condensate collected therein into contact with the units condenser coil. The condensate slinger is of the type including a truncated conical cup having an upper and lower end and a sloping conical wall extending from the upper to the lower end and surrounding an interior volume. The cup includes a bottom closing the lower end which has passages therein to allow condensate to flow into the interior volume. The passages in the bottom of the condensate slinger comprise circular openings extending from an inner surface to an outer surface thereof.

Abstract: Process and Equipment for degradation of hazardous liquid waste into innocuous elements or salts by diffusing a feed stream below the surface of a circulating molten alloy bath is disclosed.

Abstract: The invention permits the application of an identifying mark onto a freeze-dried tablet without the need for application of pressure or for printing directly on the tablet. The invention comprises the preparation of a freeze-dried unit that is embossed with an identifying mark such as a manufacturer's logo, medicinal component strength, or other information relating to the unit. The desired identifying mark is first embossed onto the base of a container such as a blister pocket. Liquid suspension is then filled into the container and freeze-dried therein. The resulting freeze-dried unit in the container is thereby embossed with substantial copy of the identifying mark that was embossed on the base of the container. The embossed identifying mark on the base of the container remains thereon as well, providing at reduced manufacturing cost the added ability to learn the identifying mark on the enclosed freeze-dried unit without opening the blister pack.

Abstract: A drier having a boxlike housing (12) for receiving a hopper (13) therein which contains a batch of wet sludge. The hopper (13) cooperates with the housing, when closed therein, to define a closed air recirculation system which supplies dry pressurized warm air into an air-receiving chamber (79) located at the bottom of the hopper. The air passes upwardly through a perforated bottom wall (78) into and through the sludge to remove moisture therefrom. The moist air passes upwardly through the open top of the hopper, through a filter and is supplied to a drying unit (34) located in the housing for removing moisture therefrom, which moisture is externally discharged. The drying unit resupplies the dry air back to the drying chamber formed in the hopper.

Abstract: A configuration of solid state thermoelectric heat transfer or removal elements is provided to enhance the rate and amount of heat removal from electrical and electronic circuit devices. By rotating the thermoelectric heat transfer modules ninety degrees and by disposing them between the interdigitated fingers of a cold plate and a heat transfer plate possessing fins, improved thermal transfer is produced without the necessity of liquid coolants or moving part cooling devices. Accordingly, a method and apparatus is provided for enhancing heat transfer using thermoelectric modules. One embodiment of the present invention is particularly seen to be easy to manufacture. Additionally, this embodiment also possesses desirable heat transfer characteristics in terms of the cross sections of thermally conductive components.

Abstract: A dryer for drying material carried along and dried by hot gases including a hollow rotatable drying drum with an inlet and a discharge end, means for driving the drum in rotation and a group of flights projecting into the gas flow stream to break up the material and retard the speed of flow of the material with the flowing gases with the flights arranged in one group at the outer periphery inside the drum and the other supported on a central axially extending core member arranged on the ends of arms projecting radially from the core member to provide satellite groups which are adjustable in a radial rotational and axial directions to change their location relative to the gas flow.

Abstract: A new and improved foot dryer comprised of a housing. A securement spring is secured within the housing. The securement spring has an end portion extending outwardly of the housing. An intake vent is secured within the housing. A pair of vents are secured within the housing. The housing functions to be installed within the floor of a bathroom. A pressure activated limit switch is secured within the housing opposite the intake vent. The pressure activated limit switch has a pressure rod secured to the limit switch and extending out of the container. A timer is electrically secured to the pressure activated limit switch. The timer has a thirty second limit. A heating element is secured within the housing. A wire electrically secures the heating element to the timer. A fan is secured to the intake vent of the housing. A wire is electrically secured to the fan and to the timer.

Abstract: A device for distributing powdery materials comprises a suspension sleeve which extends a rotary cage axially upwards through a plate. A running ring is fixed using a first collar to a suspension sleeve and using a second collar to an annular flange supported by the support structure above the horizontal plate. A ring forms part of the supply channel and is coaxial with the suspension sleeve. Leaktightness is ensured by a first leaktight seal between the suspension sleeve and this ring, and by a second leaktight seal between the suspension sleeve and the horizontal plate.