Abstract: A domestic clothes dryer comprises a rotating drum defining a drying chamber, an air inlet upstream the drum and at least a hollow lifter mounted in the drum, wherein said hollow lifter is in communication with the air inlet for distributing air inside the drum through a plurality of openings. The air inlet comprises a shaped air plenum chamber facing a lower portion of a rear perforated wall of the drum and capable of delivering air to said lifter and/or directly to the drum through said rear perforated wall.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a sterilizable drying machine using ultraviolet radiation, and a sterilizable drying method in the same. The sterilizable drying machine using ultraviolet radiation includes a casing having an inlet at its front surface, so that the user can put the washed laundry into the drying machine through the inlet, a drum supported by a front supporter inside the inlet of the casing, and rotatably installed inside the casing, to perform drying, an ultraviolet light source installed at the front supporter, for sterilizing the inside of the drum by radiating ultraviolet rays, and a control means connected to the ultraviolet light source, for controlling the ultraviolet light source to generate the ultraviolet rays.

Abstract: A laundry dryer includes a body having air discharge openings in an upper region, a clothes drum disposed in the body, and a heat exchanger to condense process air from the drum. The heat exchanger is positioned in the body below the drum and has a cooling air outlet. Further provided is an air duct having an air inlet which is connected to the cooling air outlet and an air outlet which is positioned above the heat exchanger. The air duct is arranged to discharge cooling air from the air outlet in an upward direction into the body.

Abstract: A roller for thermal pressure treatment of web-type media such as paper or non-wovens, provided with an inner heating system and comprising a base body made of hardened and tempered wrought steel or alloyed cast iron, an intermediate layer applied to the surface thereof and a hard wearing layer applied thereon. Peripheral bores or canals extending parallel to the axis are arranged in the base body of the roller at a regular distance from the surface, being distributed in a regular manner on the circle formed about the roller axis. The materials used and the arrangement of the peripheral bores are such that the roller can be used in calanders in a method wherein the surface temperatures of the roller exceed 140° C., the heating capacity is more than 35 kW/m2, operational speeds are more than 1200 m/min, line pressures are greater than 250 kN/m and the processed webs of material weigh more than 45 g/m2 and have a degree of moisture of over 5%.

Abstract: A through-air dryer system that diverts the airflow within the through-air dryer during warm up and cool down from the normal airflow during the drying of paper in the papermaking process. During warm up and cool down, a majority of the airflow is supplied to one of the dryer's heads and extracted through the opposite head to reduce thermal stresses. If needed to further reduce thermal stresses, a minority of the airflow is supplied through the dryer's shell.

Abstract: An exhaust valve apparatus and a drier of a food treatment system having the exhaust valve apparatus are disclosed. The drier includes a drum having an input port and a discharge port. A stirring screw is rotatably disposed in the drum, and includes rotary blades for stirring and crushing the food waste and a rotating shaft for supporting the rotary blades. A power supply unit is provided on a surface of the drum and provides power to the stirring screw to rotate the stirring screw. A heater is provided on the outer surface of the drum body and provides high temperature heat to the inner space of the drum when electric power is applied to the heater, thus drying the food waste. An exhaust apparatus is mounted to the lower surface of the discharge port to open or close the discharge port.

Abstract: A through-air dryer is disclosed. The through-air dryer includes a cylindrical deck made from a plurality of deck plates that support a throughdrying fabric. The deck plates are supported by opposing hubs. Each of the hubs is in communication with a bearing that is mounted to a stationary shaft for allowing the cylindrical deck and the hubs to rotate. The bearings are positioned so as to create a through-air dryer structure that remains stable during operation and allows for easy calculation of loads on the dryer.

Abstract: A process to upgrade heavy oil and convert the heavy oil into lower boiling hydrocarbon products is provided. The process employs a catalyst slurry comprising catalyst particles with an average particle size ranging from 1 to 20 microns. In the upgrade process, spent slurry catalyst in heavy oil is generated as an effluent stream, which is subsequently recovered/separated from the heavy oil via membrane filtration. Residual hydrocarbons, i.e., heavy oil and solvent employed in the filtration for the heavy oil extraction are removed from the catalyst particles in a drying zone which employs at least two drying apparatuses to volatize residual hydrocarbons in the catalyst. Valuable metals can be recovered from catalyst particles for subsequent re-use in a catalyst synthesis unit, generating a fresh slurry catalyst.

Abstract: This device comprises a drum having a lateral surface through which fluid can pass, and two flexible belts (2) which pass over the lateral surface of the drum (1) at a distance from one another, each of them on an idle guide roller (3) of its own. Each roller (3) is mounted so as to pivot about a vertical axis (7).

Abstract: A method and system are provided for performing elliptical-based and hybrid surveillance, performing false target detection and resolution, and performing integrity monitoring using one or more receiving and transmitting elements time synchronized to a common precision time reference, and a central workstation. Antennas for transmitting and receiving elements are located at known positions separated from one another. At a given time, one of the transmitting elements transmits an interrogation signal to one or more targets, which respond to the interrogation with a reply transmission, received by one or more receiving elements.

Abstract: A through-air dryer is disclosed. The through-air dryer includes a cylindrical deck made from a plurality of deck plates that support a throughdrying fabric. The deck plates are supported by opposing hubs. Each of the hubs is in communication with the bearing that is mounted to a stationary shaft for allowing the cylindrical deck and the hubs to rotate. The bearings are positioned so as to create a through-air dryer structure that remains stable during operation and allows for easy calculation of loads on the dryer.

Abstract: A machine for producing a material web is provided having at least one smooth roll at least partially wrapped by the material web. The machine includes an air blowing device arranged for ventilating the material web with at least one discharge stream, wherein the at least one discharge stream is directed into a wedge-shaped opening formed between the at least one at least one roll and the material web leaving the roll.

Abstract: A cantilevered frame in a paper machine dryer group of a dryer section supports a drying wire loop to run by at least one impingement drying unit positioned outside the loop. The frame structure (60) supports devices and rolls situated inside the wire loop (13) of the dryer group (R) which guide and support the run of the wire (13) and the web (W). A dryer section may have multiple such dryer groups which overlap one another with closed draws therebetween.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling widthwise contraction of a conveyed web has opposing first web carrier belts and opposing second web carrier belts forming a generally serpentine transport path for supporting opposite lateral edges of the conveyed web.

Abstract: A furnace for manufacturing ceramics is disclosed. The furnace contains a cylindrical heat resistant container, a furnace body for heating the cylindrical heat resistant container, and driving means for driving the cylindrical heat resistant container. The cylindrical heat resistant container rotates about a central shaft. At the same time, a first end and alternately a second end of the cylindrical heat resistant container are raised and lowered periodically, thus creating a seesaw motion while any material contained in the cylindrical heat resistant container is fired by the furnace body.

Abstract: A wet and/or dry finishing machine for fabrics in rope or open-width form comprising a treatment tank in which a transporting means is installed for the fabric, for example in endless-loop form, the transporting means drawing the fabric from the base of the tank and feeding it against a counteracting fuller element, in proximity to at least one base wall portion of the tank there being positioned a duct provided with apertures and through which an air stream is circulated, a portion of the fabric bearing on the top of the duct. This improves drying and shortens the drying time.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a dryer section for an apparatus to produce a continuous material layer, such as paper, carton or cardboard. At least one dryer group has a plurality of dryer cylinders and guiding rollers. The dryer cylinders and guiding rollers carry the material layer along a meandering path, with each dryer cylinder and each guiding roller having a first side disposed on a same side of the dryer section. At least one mechanical drive mechanism is provided, with each drive mechanism being coupled with the first side of a dryer cylinder and/or guiding roller. A plurality of supply tubes are each connected with the first side of a corresponding dryer cylinder and/or guiding roller.

Abstract: A apparatus for separating pieces of laundry, comprising a drum which is rotatable about a substantially horizontal axis and with an open front and an open rear, which drum is accommodated in a housing, in which the rear of the drum is almost closed off by a stationary wall, which is provided in the middle with an engaging opening in which engaging means for engaging and feeding through the pieces of laundry are arranged, and in that in the housing air conveying means are provided for transporting the pieces of laundry from the front to the rear of the drum. A method for separating pieces of laundry with the help of the apparatus according to the invention.

Abstract: A dryer densifier includes a hopper for receiving wet, dry and/or flaky thermoplastic waste material. The hopper feeds an auger barrel which is heated and insulated whereby material passing therethrough may be dried and fused together with other material. The auger barrel and screw are configured to leave sufficient space therebetween whereby heated vapors may pass along the length of the auger and exit to the atmosphere at the discharge end, and whereby the heated vapor may be collected by a vapor collecting hood. The material is discharged from the auger onto a shaker screen table where the fused and unfused materials are separated by the vibrating screen conveyor of the table. The unfused material is returned to the receiving hopper for further densification and the fused material is conveyed to a granulator, whereupon the dried and densified material is granulated.

Abstract: A method of and an appratus for automatically determining the moisture content of a tobacco sample and for then automatically determining the stem content of the tobacco sample are disclosed. The apparatus utilizes a dryer, such as a rotary drum dryer with internal agitating vanes, for applying heat to remove moisture and volatiles from the sample and for reducing the sample to lamina and stem portions. Electronic scales are used to weigh the sample before and after drying to determine and store the "wet" and "dry" weights of the sample. Based on the stored wet and dry weights the moisture content is determined. The stem portions are classified into two categories and weighed to determine the stem content by weight of the sample.

Abstract: The apparatus--which is used for the continuous treatment of a linear manufacture, such as length of fabric to be dried, with a gaseous stream - comprises a hollow rotor device (3) capable of being set in angular motion about a substantially horizontal axis, in combination with means (16, 14) for feeding the manufacture (M) to an open end of said rotor and means (42) for drawing the manufacture from the other open end of said rotor; continuous conveyor belt means (65, 65A) extend through the rotor in order to slowly advance said manufacture inside the internal volume of the rotor along said rotor; and suitable means (22, 30, 9) pass conditioned air or some other treatment gas into and along said rotor in order to treat the material.

Abstract: Apparatus for reducing iron and vanadium in phosphoric acid solution with the aid of a granular reductant. The apparatus is comprised of a drum rotatable around its transverse axis. It is partially filled with the granular reductant and provided with inlets for supplying the phosphoric acid solution, the granular reductant and an inert gas, and also with a reaction product outlet.

Abstract: A machine for heat and/or cold treatment of lumpy material, more particularly a drum dryer for pasta, has a number of chambers (6) distributed around the drum periphery. Each chamber (6) is bounded in known manner at the inner and outer drum periphery by a perforated wall (8, 10) to enable air or another treatment gas to flow through. At least one perforated wall (8, 10) is associated with a retaining device, more particularly a tensioning device, at least one of the perforated walls (8, 10) and preferably at least the outer wall (10) being divided in the axial and/or peripheral direction around the drum periphery. Advantageously each chamber (6) is associated with a separate perforated wall (10) which can be tensioned by a tensioning device.

Abstract: Apparatus for the drying of ferrous or non-ferrous turnings or scrap comprises a vertical axis drier (1) in which a drum (2) which encloses a transporter (3) for the turnings in question is mounted transversely. The turnings are heated indirectly via the drum (2) to evaporate their liquid content, while a protective atmosphere is maintained within the drum to prevent oxidation of the material. The vapors leaving the drum (2) are burnt in the drier (1) to heat the material and render the operation of the apparatus self-sufficient. As an alternative the vapors can be treated to recover their oil content, e.g. by distillation.

Abstract: A dryer for extracting moisture from wet goods, such as linens, of the type having a tumbler cylinder, an open side of the cylinder through which goods are inserted and removed, and a shell in which the cylinder is housed. The dryer has an external support frame including a portion extending above the shell. The shell is hingedly supported at its top to the support frame and is pivotable about the hinge to permit goods to be removed from the cylinder directly beneath the shell. A door is included for closing the open side of the tumbler cylinder and has a lower door segment which is fixed to the support frame and an upper door segment which is attached to the shell for shifting across the face of the shell to open and close an upper portion thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for batch continuous laundry processing involves a system for continuously centrifugally extracting fluids from sequentially received batches of washed laundry. The discrete batches of laundry are continuously received by a conveying apparatus that automatically loads the batches into the discrete compartments defined within the segmented drum of the extractor. While the extractor is rotating, the conveying apparatus arranges a plurality of laundry batches to be quickly loaded into the extractor upon completion of the processing of the previous batches so that the conveying and processing is completely continuous and automatic. The conveying apparatus is vertically, laterally and longitudinally translatable to receive the batches from a washer at one level, to arrange the batches in two rows, and then to automatically feed them, for example two at a time, into the compartments of the segmented extractor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to hydro-extractors used for extracting water or other liquids mixed with a treated material. The hydro-extractor according to the invention comprises, in addition to the perforated wall of revolution 1 driven in rotation about its axis, material advancing members 4-6 acting on the material layer, the path of travel f of the advancing members in the region where said members cooperate with the layer m of treated material forcibly applied against the perforated wall 1 comprising a component f.sub.p in the diametral plane and an axial component f1 directed downstream. The invention provides a hydro-extractor operating continuously, the dried product circulating in the direction of arrow D.

Abstract: A device for treating textiles, such as laundry, for example cleaning and drying, mainly comprising a closed housing 1 having openings 5, 6 being pneumatically closable for inserting and taking out respectively the laundry, a shaft 2 driven by 4 and rotatably journalled in said housing 1 and a drum supported by the shaft 2 and to be rotated for receiving the laundry, said drum consisting of at least two sections 7 axially displaceable through a roller or slide element 11 along a wing-like carrier 10 fastened to said shaft 2. In the carrier 10 tensioning means are provided for in order to tension said sections 7 during washing and centrifuging.

Abstract: A plurality of rotatable containers has perforations for draining treated and untreated liquids while retaining nut product initially received therein either in a liquid slurry or dry. A closed, controllable oven environment, encloses said containers and has means for alternately evacuating liquids and nut products gravitationally from the containers to different locations, respectively to roast, dry, cool and dehydrate the nut product. Environmental temperature control for not only the oven but also cooling bins, controls heating and cooling to within certain ranges, and includes air percolation through drained and collected nut product. A process for preparing nut, bean and seed-like products is described for roasting, drying, dehydrating and cooling the products. The process includes a soaking of the product in a liquid solution at selected temperatures, agitation of the solution, draining of the liquids and maintenance of predetermined temperature in a closed environment.

Abstract: Continuous hydrolysis to produce sugars is effected by cyclically immersing a solid, divided lignocellulosic material in a bath of concentrated hydrochloric acid and draining the material between successive immersions so as to dissolve the produced sugars, until the sugar concentration of the acid in the bath has attained a desired value.The solid material and the liquid acid are delivered to a tubular horizontal rotary reactor arranged to provide a bath of the acid, to produce a rotating movement for cyclical immersion of the solid material in the bath of acid and longitudinally displace the solid material undergoing hydrolysis together with the acid of the bath and to continuously discharge solid residue and acid containing dissolved sugars due to overflow by gravity at an outlet end of the reactor.

Abstract: Continuous hydrolysis to produce sugars is effected by cyclically immersing a solid, divided lignocellulosic material in a bath of concentrated hydrochloric acid and draining the material between successive immersions so as to dissolve the produced sugars, until the sugar concentration of the acid in the bath has attained a desired value.The solid material and the liquid acid are delivered to a tubular horizontal rotary reactor arranged to provide a bath of the acid, to produce a rotating movement for cyclical immersion of the solid material in the bath of acid and longitudinally displace the solid material undergoing hydrolysis together with the acid of the bath and to continuously discharge solid residue and acid containing dissolved sugars due to overflow by gravity at an outlet end of the reactor.

Abstract: An installation for drying a liquid-containing particulate product comprises a supporting frame, a centrifugal separator removably mounted thereon and a large receptacle for the particles ejected from a discharge end of the separator basket supported on the supporting frame. The receptacle has a vertical wall defining an opening and the centrifugal separator is mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis and is arranged with the discharge end of the basket facing the opening in the vertical wall and extending into the receptacle whereby the particles are ejected into the receptacle upon rotation of the basket, the opening having a diameter slightly in excess of the diameter of the discharge end of the basket. The separator may thus be horizontally moved for placing it in position with the discharge end extending into the receptacle and for removing it without dismounting the receptacle.