Abstract: Disclosed is a ventilator including a heat exchanger having a fresh air channel and a stale air channel. The respective channels are pneumatically isolated, but, are arranged in contiguous and interwoven fashion such that incoming fresh air may pass in countercurrent heat exchange relation to the outgoing stale air twice. The fresh air channel has an inlet in communication with air external to the ventilated space and an outlet in communication with the ventilated space. The stale air channel has an inlet in communication with the ventilated space and an outlet in communication with the external space. The heat exchanger features heat transfer means in communication with the fresh and stale air channels which is formed by a septum having a first surface in heat exchange relation with the fresh air channel and a second surface in heat exchange relation with the stale air channel. The septum is wrapped in successive spaced turns to form alternating sections of the fresh air and stale air channels.

Abstract: A ventilator device for a vehicle comprises a ventilation frame including a shutter-like grille and a side wall rearwardly extending therefrom and a valve member including a bill-shaped check valve projecting toward the grille. An end of the periphery of the valve member is engaged with an end of the side wall.

Abstract: A method of operating a circulating fluidized bed combustion reactor includes providing a reactor with an upright combustion chamber and an upright and cylindrical cyclonic combustor, feeding in combustible matter, supplying first and second streams of pressurized air, permitting combustion product gases to exit while retaining and returning granular material and uncombusted matter to the lower region of the combustion chamber and controlling the various flows.

Abstract: A device 10 for both heating a fluid and for cleaning a waste gas comprises a container 14 into which waste gas is introduced through a waste gas inlet. The waste gas is moved through the container 14 by a fan 25. The blades 35 of fan 25 are also used to atomize a liquid directed thereto and to spray the liquid into the waste gas in the container 14. In addition, fan 25 facilitates the recirculation of at least a portion of the waste gas in the container 14 back through the fan 25 for repeated introduction of the waste gas into the container 14. A heat exchanger 11 is disposed in container 14 for transferring heat between the waste gas in the chamber and a liquid-to-be-heated. In a preferred embodiment, an insulated funnel 17 comprises an inlet for the waste gas.

Abstract: A novel and improved cover assembly for an air moving device such as a fan or air conditioner mounted in a wall or ceiling for drawing air therethrough. To prevent cold air from leaking through the device, the improved cover assembly is detachably connected by magnetic means to the rim of the device. The cover assembly is made of insulating material and has a plurality of recesses or channels formed on the internal side thereof extending in spaced relation to each other from the outer edge of each of the inner recesses so that a wide range of rims can be served by one size cover assembly. Depending on the rim size or shape (rectangular, square or circular) the cover assembly can be "fitted" to any rim in question by removing the excess material at the appropriate line of perforations.

Abstract: Apparatus for feeding solid waste material to one or more chargers of the type for forcing solid waste material into a furnace or boiler. An elongated auger housing is mounted above the chargers and includes a plurality of openings along its length and for depositing solid waste material into hoppers of the chargers. An auger is supported in the housing and conveys solid waste from one end of the auger housing to the other. A supply conveyor is provided for carrying a continuous supply of solid waste material to one end of the auger housing from a supply container. A return conveyor is positioned adjacent a discharge end of the auger housing and returns excess waste material to the supply container.

Abstract: A water heater having improved efficiency. The water heater includes a tubular member that is mounted in an opening in the side of the tank and extends generally horizontally across the tank. The tubular member defines a combustion chamber and a fuel burner is located within the combustion chamber. The outer end of the tubular member communicates with the atmosphere and air is drawn into the tubular member and mixed with fuel to provide a mixture which is ignited. The waste gases of combustion are discharged from the inner end of the tubular member into a heat exchanger which is located in the tank beneath the tubular member, and the hot waste gases being discharged from the combustion chamber and passing through the heat exchanger transfer heat to the water in the tank. The heat exchanger is connected to a stack and a blower is mounted in the stack downstream of the heat exchanger and serves to draw the waste gases of combustion from the combustion chamber through the heat exchanger to the stack.

Abstract: A shop assembled modular steam generator wherein each module includes top supported pressure parts, casing, and a frame structure. These modules are readily transported to a remote construction site and interconnected. Each of the superheater, high pressure boiler, intermediate pressure boiler, low pressure boiler, and economizer sections of the generator comprise separate center and end modules whose casings are joined to provide a gas tight flow path around the pressure parts.

Abstract: Boiler with a circulating fluidized bed, comprising a fluidization column completely lined with refractory material, a recirculation cyclone (2) and a duct (3) for recycling the solid materials. At least one heat-exchanger component (25, 26, 27) is placed in the recirculation cyclone (2). Pipe lines (30) enable air to be injected in tangential directions into the upper part of the cyclone (2) and thereby to increase the vortex effect. The combustion takes place substantially in the upper part of the cyclone (2). The fluidization column (1) comprises a widened section (1a) in its lower part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a boiler for boiling a mash or wort, having an interior partition dividing the boiler into a heat exchanger section and a precipitation section. The boiler according to the invention is characterized in that the partition divides the boiler into an inner precipitation section and a surrounding heat exchanger section, i.e. in that the precipitation section and the heat exchanger section are disposed one within the other. This results in the particular advantage that the overall height of the boiler may be reduced. Since in addition the full height of the boiler is available for the accommodation of pipe conduits in the heat exchanger section, the flow resistance in the pipe conduits may be reduced. In summary, the boiler according to the invention is of simple construction to thereby facilitate the cleaning thereof.

Abstract: A pressure regulating solenoid valve is disclosed which comprises a valve body having a flow path therethrough having an inlet and an outlet. The valve body has a main valve seat within the flow path, and a main valve member mounted within the valve body for movement between an open position, in which the main valve member is clear of the main valve seat for the primary flow of fluid between the inlet and outlet, and a closed position in which the main valve member engages the main valve seat so as to block the primary flow of fluid through the main valve seat. A spring biased combination throttling valve/check valve is interposed within the flow path between the upstream and downstream sides of the main valve seat so as to permit a secondary flow of fluid from the inlet to the outlet of the valve housing when the main valve is closed and when the pressure differential of the flow through this secondary valve seat is above a predetermined value.

Abstract: A spray coating equipment or chamber system consists of a single paint spray chamber at the axial central part of the equipment, a plurality of intermediate air curtain compartments at the axial outer sides and a pair of outermost air curtain compartments, one at each axial end of the spray coating chamber. Discharge ducts in each air-curtain compartment are disposed toward each other and normal to the axis line of the painting equipment and each duct is positioned being spaced apart from both side walls and rear wall defining the compartment at a distance 0.7 times the radius of the duct thereby the flow of air not only in the compartment but also in the entire painting equipment is rendered smooth with minimum turbulent flow and thus the equipment can be rendered free from contamination of the air in vicinity and prevent the compartment from deposition of paint particles.

Abstract: A combination heater-light-ventilator unit for mounting in a ceiling, is disclosed. A cylindrical housing supports the unit and an annular grille on its bottom includes an arcuate heat discharge outlet around part of its circumference and an arcuate air intake through the remainder, with a light diffuser supported in the center. The heat discharge outlet is configured to direct heat flow relatively straight down from the unit to minimize its recirculation through the arcuate air intake.

Abstract: A steam generator feed water heater comprises a pressurized enclosure inside which is a heat exchanger through which the feed water is caused to flow. There is at least one horizontal condensate inlet tube, as well as at least one condensate outlet tube at a low point on the enclosure. A double screen device associated with the condensate inlet tube comprises an inner screen with a cylindrical side wall and, surrounding this inner screen, an outer screen having one end linked to the inner screen. A bottom wall common to both screens constitutes an impact wall facing the inner screen. Passage areas are provided by perforations in the screens not facing each other over most of the perimeter of their transverse cross-sections.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for incinerating low density organic materials using a pair of side by side multiple hearth furnaces are disclosed. The first furnace of the pair operates in a temperature-controlled reducing atmosphere to achieve complete volatilization of non-fixed carbon contained in the fuel feed stock. The second furnace operates in a temperature-controlled oxidizing atmosphere to achieve complete oxidation of all fixed-carbon contained in the char output of the first furnace. The gaseous products of both furnaces are combined and burned in a low - Btu gas burner, thus providing the heat input to a power boiler or other process suited to the heat quality produced.

Abstract: A ventilating appartus for installation in a ventilation opening in a building foundation includes a peripheral border having detachable lateral extension tabs for selective retention to be mounted in a mortar joint in brick-type construction and, alternatively, for selective detachment for disposition flush with laterally-adjacent foundation surfaces for edgewise disposition thereon of siding in siding-type building construction. No border is utilized in an alternative embodiment of the ventilating apparatus to facilitate mounting thereof to the outward face of a building foundation as a replacement for broken and deteriorated ventilating apparatus, a separable side portion facilitating such mounting in buildings of siding-type construction. A slotted shutter-like mechanism is provided for convenient opening and closing operation of the ventilating apparatus.

Abstract: An improved stack construction for an incinerator. A layer of refractory material is disposed on the inner surface of the stack and an elongated tubular member is positioned longitudinally within the stack and spaced from the layer of refractory material to provide an annular passage therebetween. An air supply conduit is connected to one end of the tubular member, while the opposite end of the tubular member is closed. The tubular member is provided with a plurality of outlet ports disposed along a length of the tubular member with the outlet ports facing laterally outward and downwardly to direct air toward the refractory liner and in contact with the waste gases passing upwardly through the annular passage to thereby increase the turbulence of the waste gases and provide an increased efficiency of combustion.

Abstract: A heat exchanger device for drying and then superheating steam, has a cylindrical casing about a horizontal axis. The casing contains:(a) a bottom admission chamber for wet steam;(b) intermediate separator members (7, 8, 9, 10, 21) for removing water from the wet steam;(c) a top bundle of superheater tubes (11); and(d) wet steam flow channels (15, 17) located on either side of the bundles of superheater tubes. These channels are separated from the admission chamber by a partition (19) extending from one only of the sides of the superheaters in such a manner as to ensure that the wet steam rises in the vicinity of the inside surface of the casing round one side only of the superheaters and then descends round the other side towards the inlet to the separator members (21).

Abstract: A furnace housing having a heat exchanger, an exhaust gas flue and an ash collecting bin therein. A burn chamber is provided in the housing with the heat exchanger being oriented in heat exchanging relation to the burn chamber. An inclined conduit extends through a wall in the furnace housing and terminates in the burn chamber. A rotatable shaft is attached to a burn basket having a bottom wall and a perforate side wall and an open top. The end of the conduit in the burn chamber terminates adjacent the open top of the burn basket. A closed housing is connected to an end of the conduit remote from the end in the burn chamber. A fan delivers air to the closed housing and then to the conduit. A pelletized fuel feeding apparatus delivers pelletized fuel from a storage device to the closed housing and then to the burn basket.

Abstract: The invention described herein describes certain test wafers to be used in diagnosing heavy metal contamination in furnaces used in the manufacture of electronic devices and the method of referencing such wafers to a common wafer source for establishing an accurate baseline for a furnace to determine if it is functioning adequately or if an impurity or contaminant problem exists.