Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of producing such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides devices configured for vaporization of an aerosol precursor composition that is contained in a reservoir and transported to a heating element by a liquid transport element. The liquid transport element may include a porous monolith.

Abstract: The present invention is a vibratory distribution system which utilizes a metering gate assembly useful for selectively passing and diverting articles from a stream of articles to either or both a downstream conveyor or a cross conveyor. The metering gate assembly is capable of providing a proportional distribution in response to a user specified control point. The metering gate assembly includes an actuator that is borne by the conveyor bed, and a control valve that is operable to hold a slide gate in a desired position despite the violent vibratory motion imparted by the conveyor bed.

Abstract: The present invention is a vibratory distribution system which utilizes a metering gate assembly useful for selectively passing and diverting articles from a stream of articles to either or both a downstream conveyor or a cross conveyor. The metering gate assembly is capable of providing a proportional distribution in response to a user specified control point. The metering gate assembly includes an actuator that is borne by the conveyor bed, and a control valve that is operable to hold a slide gate in a desired position despite the violent vibratory motion imparted by the conveyor bed.

Abstract: An air conditioner having a fan motor brown-out control algorithm for increasing the air conditioner fan speed upon sensing a brown-out under-voltage condition is provided. The air conditioner has a power supply connected to an AC line voltage, a fan motor, a multispeed fan driven by the fan motor and means for sensing a brown-out condition of the AC line voltage. The sensing means is connected to the power supply and provides a signal indicative of a brown-out condition. The air conditioner also has means for increasing the speed of the fan in response to the sensed brown-out condition signal provided by the sensing means. In an embodiment, the air conditioner further has a microprocessor and related circuitry for adjusting the speed of the fan. In another embodiment, logic circuitry is provided instead of a microprocessor. A brown-out control algorithm for an appliance having a multispeed fan and components for operating the fan is also provided.

Abstract: A bracket for mounting a motor which drives a fan in a dehumidifier or the like includes two or more arms secured directly to the motor's housing. The bracket includes a rib which spans nearly the full length of an extender of the arm and gussets at the various junctions of the arm. The use of the rib and gussets in the arm substantially isolates motor vibration and reduces imbalance of the impeller and/or the driven component.

Abstract: A nonskid coating for a carpet or mat is provided by placing a patterned polyurethane on the carpet, the polyurethane being permanently tacky. The method includes the steps of forming a precoat coating of one reactive formulation and forming a secondary coating of a second reactive formulation. The one reactive formulation is a polyurethane for holding face yarns in the carpet backing, and the second reactive formulation includes a diamine to render the formulation thixotropic and a tackifier for rendering the cured polyurethane tacky.

Abstract: A device for preparing a beaten product and including a beater assembly driven rotatively about a generally vertical axis, with an improved beater assembly comprising an elongate rotor body having at least one blade unit formed integrally with the rotor body. Each of the blade units comprising an elongate base member formed integrally with the rotor body and a plurality of spaced blades formed integrally with the base member.

Abstract: A unit bearing electric motor is disclosed which includes a rotor assembly having a one-piece rotor housing. The rotor assembly includes a retainer which is positioned within the rotor housing and is adapted to cooperate with a portion of the cantilevered rotor shaft of the motor having a reduced cross-section. Significantly, the arrangement of the rotor assembly permits its prefabrication so that the finished rotor assembly may be readily mounted on the rotor shaft by merely advancing the rotor assembly along the shaft so that the shaft is telescopically received therein and so that the retainer of the rotor assembly is moved into cooperation with the reduced section of the rotor shaft for securely maintaining the rotor assembly in its proper position on a shaft.

Abstract: A device for preparing a beaten product and including a beater assembly driven rotatively about a generally vertical axis, with the beater assembly including a rotor body having vertically spaced upper and lower portions containing recesses, and a blade unit having upper and lower projections receivable within said recesses to connect the blade unit to the body, and with the blade unit being adapted for connection to the body by insertion of an upper one of the projections into an upper recess followed by swinging movement of the lower portion of the blade unit from a position in which a lower one of the projections is offset horizontally from a corresponding one of the recesses to a position in which the lower projection is above and can be moved downwardly into the lower recess.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for treatment of metallized iron ore produced by direct reduction techniques principally for use in various iron and steelmaking furnaces. The apparatus and process receives the product from a direct reduction facility consisting of hot metallized fine sizes of reduced iron ore such as from a fluidized bed reactor system that can be combined with metallized iron ore pellets or like agglomerates from other types of direct reduction reactors. The present invention involves dry and wet treatment and handling apparatus and procedures wherewith the hot metallized fine sizes, optionally including metallized pellets or agglomerates, are rendered immune from reoxidation and degradation for unlimited periods of time whether in open storage or during transport, whereafter the stabilized product can be readily used in various types of iron and steelmaking furnaces.

Abstract: A fluidized bed reactor preferably for high temperature and pressure operations featuring reactor components and constriction plate arrangements therein capable of essentially unlimited size scaleup, the invention avoiding common reactor design and operational problems usually associated with the high temperature and pressure properties of metallic materials of construction such as: thermal expansion, creep, strength and stress-to-rupture. The present invention includes features for uniformly distributing multiple gaseous, liquid, or solid reactants and fuels into a fludized bed avoiding problems of coking and plugging of distribution pipes and tuyeres due to high temperatures. The present invention is useful for high temperature and pressure combusation, reforming, gasification, reduction, drying and calcination reactions.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for producing metallized iron ore by direct reduction techniques for use in iron and steelmaking furnaces, the apparatus and process first involving separation and treatment of run-of-mine iron ore to produce controlled and optimum size fractions for reduction and metallization in suitable direct reduction systems. The apparatus and process further involves a particular size fraction entering a series of staged fluidized bed reduction systems, each system provided with auxiliary ore feeding and preheating facilities, and with the process provided with a single source of, or production facilities for, high-temperature reducing gases which effect reduction to desired high degrees of metallization. The apparatus and process provides for essentially a complete utilization of reducing gases and for enhanced incremental scaleup capabilities to a single-line plant for the production of metallized iron ore.

Abstract: An apparatus for making semi-circular pipe insulation segments from a block of foamed glass of like foamed, expanded or cellular plastics or elastomers having reciprocating adjustable cutter members mounted on a reciprocating frame structure, which cutter member travels in an arcuate path through the block placed below the cutter members, the improvement of which comprises a rigid adjustable blade assembly.

Abstract: A device for preparing a beaten product and including a beater assembly driven rotatively about a generally vertical axis, with the beater assembly including a rotor body having vertically spaced upper and lower portions containing recesses, and a blade unit having upper and lower projections receivable within said recesses to connect the blade unit to the body, and with the blade unit being adapted for connection to the body by insertion of an upper one of the projections into an upper recess followed by swinging movement of the lower portion of the blade unit from a position in which a lower one of the projections is offset horizontally from a corresponding one of the recesses to a position in which the lower projection is above and can be moved downwardly into the lower recess.