Patents by Inventor Vaino T. Saalasti

Vaino T. Saalasti has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4715276
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a mechanical, continuous dewartering press for a fibrous material, in which press the material to be dewatered is dewatered by compression between a perforated revolving drum and a roll revolving in the said drum so that the high compression force required in the dewatering and the high tangential force resulting from the revolving of the roll are directed by means of levers journalled on the end plates of the frame of the press onto the end plates, on which the counter-blades are also journalled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Inventor: Vaino T. Saalasti
  • Patent number: 4651639
    Abstract: Dewatering press, which is provided with a perforated rotary drum and with a press roll revolving inside the drum, between which the material to be dewatered is compressed and wherein the compressing force of the press roll is produced by means of compression levers, on which the shaft of the press roll is journalled, and the rotary movement of the roll is produced by means of a gearbox, which has been made so that a compression lever and an ordinary pivot gearbox have been built together, whereby the entire machine becomes of shorter length, of lower weight, and simpler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Inventor: Vaino T. Saalasti
  • Patent number: 4581136
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with the clarification of waters that contain usable sludge, fibres or equivalent. The objective is to recover the usable material, e.g., as fuel, and at the same time to prevent pollution of waters. According to the invention, the separation of the solids, such as fibres and any other utilizable material, from the water takes place so that the water containing solid material is fed into or onto a mobile and utilizable layer of material placed on a perforated moving base, e.g. a wire-bottom conveyor (5), so that this material layer functions as a filter.The invention is in particular suitable for the wood processing industry, wherein the water coming from the barking drum (1) is passed into a clarifier tank (7), from which the water containing fibres is pumped onto a layer of bark material carried on a wire-bottom conveyor (5), whereby the bark layer filters the water passing through the bark layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Inventor: Vaino T. Saalasti
  • Patent number: 4525284
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with the clarification of waters that contain usable sludge, fibres or equivalent. The objective is to recover the usable material, e.g., as fuel and at the same time to prevent pollution of waters. According to the invention, the separation of the solids, such as fibres and any other utilizable material, from the water takes place so that the water containing solid material is fed into or onto a mobile and utilizable layer of material placed on a perforated moving base, e.g. a wire-bottom conveyor (5), so that this material layer functions as a filter.The invention is in particular suitable for the wood processing industry, wherein the water coming from the barking drum (1) is passed into a clarifier tank (7), from which the water containing fibres is pumped onto a layer of bark material carried on a wire-bottom conveyor (5), whereby the bark layer filters the water passing through the bark layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Inventor: Vaino T. Saalasti
  • Patent number: 4313375
    Abstract: Water containing bark, or the like, is fed into a gap of a bark press, mounted in an inclined plane, the gap being formed between the inner face of a rotating large rigid perforated drum and the outer face of at least one of a plurality of independently rotating smaller compressor rolls. Water is expelled from the bark through the perforations in the drum. Any of the compressed bark which adheres to the drum or compressor roll surfaces is scraped therefrom, falls to the lower portion of the bark press where it is subjected to additional compressive forces and is finally collected at the lower end of the inclined bark press. The relatively dry bark, which is obtained, can be more effectively used as a fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Inventor: Vaino T. Saalasti