With Gas Or Vapor Circulation For Contact With Treated Material Patents (Class 34/218)
  • Publication number: 20100146809
    Abstract: A condensation dryer includes a drying chamber for objects to be dried, a process air channel, a heater in the process air channel for heating the process air, a heat exchanger in the process air channel for cooling the process air after passing through the drying chamber, a fan in the process air channel for conveying the process air, a rinsing container connected to a water supply, and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Grunert, Uwe-Jens Krausch, Günter Steffens
  • Publication number: 20100132216
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dryer with a drying chamber for the items to be dried, a process air duct, a fan in the process air duct, a heat pump with a heat sink and a heat source thermally coupled to the process air duct, and also an electrical heating element. The electrical heating element is arranged in the direct vicinity of the heat source, with a first distance between the electrical heating element and the heat source being smaller than a second distance between the electrical heating element and an entry for the process air into the drying chamber. The invention also relates to a method for operating this dryer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe-Jens Krausch, Andreas Stolze
  • Publication number: 20100126034
    Abstract: The invention relates to an appliance (1) for the removal of fluids and/or solids from a mixture of particulate materials with a container (2) that constitutes a ring-shaped processing space (20) with a cylindrical outer contour with devices for the charging and discharging of the particulate material into and out of the processing space (20) and with a fan device (5) for supplying a fluidization agent from underneath into the processing space (20) as well as devices (6) for the processing of the fluidization agent in the flow direction in front of the fan device, whereby in the processing space (20) cells (15, 16, 17) are formed extending in the vertical direction, where one cell constitutes a discharge cell (17) through which there is no fluidization agent flow from underneath, where at the lower end of the discharge cell the discharge device is arranged, and where another cell (15) is provided with a charge device, and where the cells (15, 16, 17) are open at their upper ends in order to enable the transpo
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Gerald Caspers, Lothar Krell
  • Publication number: 20100119985
    Abstract: A curing oven, particularly for curing a continuous mat of mineral wool fibres mixed with binder has an air injecting system for injecting ambient air into at least one heating zone in circumstances in which there is a risk of inadequate ventilation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Potterill, Georg Oster
  • Publication number: 20100116294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spray drying system provided with a gas filtering system, which system is intended for use in the pharmaceutical industry for aseptic production of sterile pharmaceutical products or in other industries e.g. production of food, where an intake of sterile air for the drying process is necessary. The spray drying system for providing a particulate material comprises a spray drying chamber (3), after treatment equipment (4, 5) placed downstream of the spray drying chamber and a process gas heater (2) placed upstream in relation to the spray drying chamber (3), wherein an inlet filter (1) capable of removing microorganisms at a temperature below 140° C., is placed upstream of the process gas heater (2) and that the process gas heater (2) is a non-flaking heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: GEA PROCESS ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Robert Howard Turok, Soren Sten Rasmussen
  • Publication number: 20100115784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multiple laundry treating machine and a control method thereof. The multiple laundry treating machine includes a body (110) formed with a laundry holding part (40) for holding laundry, an supplemental body (120) provided at one side of the body (110), the supplemental body (120) having a volume and a height respectively smaller than a volume and a height of the body (110), and having a space (122) defined in the supplemental body (120) to hold laundry, and an air supply unit provided in the body (110), to supply air to an interior of the body (110) and an interior of the supplemental body (120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seong Jin Jo, Seong Hae Jeong, Deua Hee Lee
  • Patent number: 7713411
    Abstract: A filter-dryer apparatus employing a single container for both filtering and drying operations including a container holding a material to be filtered and dried, adapted to connect to a filter system and to connect to a fluid bed dryer system, and a process for separating particulates from liquids by the operations of filtration and drying, which includes the steps of providing a single container for both filtering and drying operations; introducing a mixture of particles and liquid to said container; connecting the container to a filter system and filtering the particulates from the liquid; detaching the container from the filter system; connecting the container to a fluid bed drying system and removing the liquid from the particulates to result in dry particulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Chemical Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Patrick Banister, Robert R. Garner, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20100101109
    Abstract: This disclosure reveals a combination of embodiments that increase the evaporation rate of liquid solutions when subjected to blow-down gas flows. Certain gas flow separator baffles or framed inserts with vanes may be especially effective to enhance evaporation when combined with aggressive blow-down flow rates and centrifugal force. The centrifugal force applied to the evaporating liquid protects sample integrity by preventing the solution(s) from splashing out of the drying container. Such splashing, when high blow-down gas flow rates are directed into the sample containers, affects yield and purity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Herbert J. Hedberg, Brian A. Kangas, Michael A. Burns
  • Patent number: 7698833
    Abstract: An apparatus for hardening a sealant on a substrate is disclosed in the present invention. The apparatus includes a chamber receiving at least a pair of bonded substrates, and at least one supporting unit supporting the bonded substrates, attached to inner side surfaces of the chamber, and having a substantially flat contact surface contacting the bonded substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moo Yeol Park, Sung Su Jung
  • Publication number: 20100088916
    Abstract: An application for a hearing aid drying/disinfecting system includes a closable container with an internally mounted ultra-violet lamp for disinfecting the hearing aid. A heating element creates an internal temperature that is higher than ambient temperature and a fan circulates air through shielded vents from the outside of the container through the container and back out, thereby drying the hearing aid contained within the drying/disinfecting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: HEARING TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Harvey Romanek
  • Publication number: 20100083522
    Abstract: A configurable hoof drying apparatus. The drying components of the apparatus are selectable, configurable and inter-changeable for desired drying needs and change a pressure, speed and temperature of an original drying air source. Therefore it can be used with a hot/warm/cool/cold air drying source. The hoof drying apparatus is portable and specifically designed, but is not limited to, drying hooves for the purposes of: hoof wall repair, preparation for medication for hoof diseases and preparation of the hoof for application of hoof dressings and hoof shoes. The hoof drying apparatus can also be used for drying non-hoofed animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventor: Donald R. TRITZ
  • Publication number: 20100083531
    Abstract: A clothes drying machine, particularly a safe clothes drying machine with a large space structure is disclosed. It includes a clothes drying chamber, a warm air buffer chamber, a fan chamber for heat supply and a controller, wherein the clothes drying chamber, warm air buffer chamber and fan chamber for heat supply are independent parts assembled in turn from top down, and the warm air buffer chamber disposed under the clothes drying chamber is a basin-shaped casing with an opening upwards and an air inlet attached to the fan chamber for heat supply is disposed at the bottom of the basin-shaped casing is provided with a fixing device for clothes drying chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventor: Jiebo Hu
  • Publication number: 20100083526
    Abstract: A vehicle dryer includes an energy-conserving rotatable inlet butterfly valve to selectively admit or block air to a fan encased in a blower housing. The valve includes a plate mounted on a shaft that extends across the inlet portion of the blower housing. The plate is rotated by its shaft to either an opened position for admitting air into a blower housing, or a closed position for blocking air from entering into the blower housing. A crank arm is coupled to the valve shaft, and a pneumatic cylinder includes a piston rod for turning the crank arm through a ninety-degree angle, thereby rotating the valve plate between its opened and closed positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: SUPERIOR INVESTMENTS, INC.
    Inventor: Archie L. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20100083527
    Abstract: A condensation dryer is provided that includes a drying chamber for articles to be dried and a process air circuit in which a heater for heating the process air is located. The heated process air can be guided across the articles to be dried along a circulation route that includes a blower, an air/air heat exchanger, and a heat pump circuit having an evaporator, a compressor and a condenser. An additional heat exchanger is arranged in the heat pump circuit between the condenser and the evaporator, the additional heat exchanger being functionally coupled to the air/air heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Grunert, Günter Steffens, Andreas Stolze
  • Publication number: 20100071227
    Abstract: An enclosure for storing of moisture sensitive devices (MSD's). The enclosure includes a plurality of compartments, each continuously purged with dry air supplied by a commercially available de-humidifier. MSD's housed in said compartments are thus protected from absorbing moisture which could cause cracking of the devices after being mounted on printed circuit boards and subjected to the high temperatures associated with wave solder and solder reflow processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventor: Bahman Khoshnood
  • Publication number: 20100071224
    Abstract: A clothing dryer having a cover structure capable of increasing quantity of air generated from a cooling fan. The clothing dryer includes a first cover covering the cooling fan and a second cover connected to the first cover. A cutoff is provided at a connection area between the first cover and the second cover to branch a flow of air and is positioned below a rotational center of the cooling fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Suk Chung
  • Patent number: 7676953
    Abstract: A moisture metering calibration method and system for, e.g., determining the moisture lumber within a lumber drying kiln is disclosed. Calibration of moisture indicative electrical signals obtained from, e.g., moisture sensing capacitive plates spaced apart within a stack of drying lumber is performed, wherein long lengths (e.g., up to 1000 linear feet or more) of coaxial cable can be used for transmitting the signals, and effectively removing signal anomalies induced in such cabling so that accurate lumber moisture measurements result. Such extended cable lengths provides flexibility with respect to placement of electronic moisture metering equipment. This flexibility allows such equipment to be placed in an environmentally-controlled enclosure, rather than on the weather exposed exterior of a kiln whose lumber is being monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Signature Control Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Magill
  • Publication number: 20100058606
    Abstract: Disclosed are an evaporator, an evaporation method, and a substrate processing apparatus, which can increase the concentration of generated vapor of an organic solvent and efficiently heat the organic solvent. The evaporator includes a fluid tube, a liquid organic solvent supply device for supplying the organic solvent liquid to one end of the fluid tube, and heating units for heating the fluid tube. The fluid tube has a cross section that increases from the one end to the other end. When the organic solvent liquid supplied to one end of the fluid tube is heated, the organic solvent vapor is discharged from the other end of the fluid tube. The substrate processing apparatus includes the above-described evaporator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Mikio NAKASHIMA, Yuji KAMIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20100043247
    Abstract: A fabric treatment apparatus is provided. The fabric treatment apparatus includes a treatment room adapted to receive laundry to be treated; a rack disposed in the treatment room, and adapted to support a plurality of hangers to hang the laundry; one or more electromagnets to apply attraction and repulsion to the clothes rack; and a heating unit adapted to supply at least one of hot air and steam into the treatment room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dae Yun Park, Jong Seok Kim, Dong Won Kim, Sog Kie Hong
  • Patent number: 7658015
    Abstract: A clothes drying device for using a vacuum to dry clothes includes a housing being positioned on a support surface. The housing includes a top wall, a bottom wall and a perimeter wall extending between the bottom wall and the top wall to define an interior space of the housing. A drum assembly is mounted in the interior space of the housing. The drum assembly receives clothes to be dried. A hole in the perimeter wall of the housing is in communication with the drum assembly to allow the clothes to be placed in the drum assembly. A vacuum pump is mounted in the interior space of the housing. The vacuum pump is in fluid communication with drum assembly to create a vacuum in the drum assembly to draw moisture out of the clothes in the drum assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Inventor: Christopher M. Gardell
  • Publication number: 20100024240
    Abstract: A tunnel washer that includes fluid exhaust paths that are optimized to minimize fluid transfer between chambers of the washer and minimize heat loss from each chamber of the washer. The fluid exhaust paths also facilitate uniform vapor evacuation from each chamber of the washer. The tunnel washer also includes spaced-apart double wall curtains for isolating chambers of the tunnel washer to prevent fluid and heat transfer therebetween, and to the exterior of the tunnel washer. The double wall curtains include surfaces that inhibit the curtains from sticking together during operation of the tunnel washer. The tunnel washer also includes an air manifold that provides uniform drying efficiency for articles of varying dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Maxime Robert, Eugene Cantin, Daniel Giguère, Louis Martineau, Nathalie Thibault
  • Publication number: 20100024244
    Abstract: A gas heater with specialized controls allows an operator to deploy a single device to heat and to dry when extracting moisture from a structure. The heater has a fan in a blow thru arrangement ahead of a burner. The burner uses either natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas. The heater has air flow, fan motor, temperature, and ignition controls and sensors. The heater delivers high temperature air to the structure that hastens evaporation as the heated air absorbs great concentrations of water vapor. Then the moisture laden heated air exits the building as the heater draws in fresh air, ducts it into a structure, and pressurizes the structure. This moisture laden air then leaks from the building through select windows using the energy imparted from the fan and then exhausts the moisture to the atmosphere, drying the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventor: Gary J. Potter
  • Publication number: 20100018072
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laundry treating apparatus (100) which enables supply of heated air of temperature ranges different from one another thereto, including a cabinet (10) having an inside space for holding clothing, a steam generator (20) provided to the cabinet (10) for supplying steam to the inside space (11), selectively, and a heated air supply device (40) in the cabinet (10) for making selective supply of air with at least three temperature ranges to the inside space (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Young Soo Kim, Seong Hae Jeong
  • Publication number: 20100011615
    Abstract: A condensation dryer is provided that includes a drying chamber for items to be dried, a process air circuit via which fan driven process air can be conducted across the items to be dried, and a heat pump circuit for alternately heating and cooling the process air. A secondary fluid circuit is provided between the process air circuit and the heat pump circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventor: Dietmar Steiner
  • Publication number: 20100011613
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for drying hearing aids. According to the invention, the drying apparatus includes a housing and in the housing a hearing aid shell for inserting the hearing aid and a fan, with the fan accelerating air by means of an electro-aerodynamic pump. The electro-aerodynamic pump is advantageously embodied to generate gas ions and to accelerate the gas ions through an electrical field. The electro-aerodynamic fan is advantageous in that it requires little space and, except for the air flow, operates at a low noise level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventor: Kunibert Husung
  • Publication number: 20100011608
    Abstract: An exhaust air dryer with a drying chamber for items to be dried. The dryer includes a process air fan, a heat exchanger which includes a heat source, a heat sink of a heat pump, and a flushing device for flushing of a first inflow surface of the heat source and a second inflow surface of the heat sink with a liquid which is assigned to the heat source and the heat sink for removing of soil; and air ducts interconnecting the drying chamber, the process air fan, and the heat exchanger for conducting process air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Grunert, Uwe-Jens Krausch, Günter Steffens, Andreas Stolze
  • Publication number: 20100011609
    Abstract: A multiple laundry treating machine, in which an auxiliary laundry treating device (120) is coupled to a general laundry treating device (110), is disclosed. The multiple laundry treating machine includes a main laundry treating device (110) for washing or drying laundry contained in an interior of the main laundry treating device (110), an auxiliary laundry treating device (120) arranged at one side of the main laundry treating device (110), the auxiliary laundry treating device (120) having a volume and a height respectively smaller than a volume and a height of the main laundry treating device (110), and having a laundry container (121) formed in an interior of the auxiliary laundry treating device (120), and a connecting unit (300) for connecting the main and auxiliary laundry treating devices (110, 120), to enable communication or control operations between the main and auxiliary laundry treating devices (110, 120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Seong Ho Park, Phal Jin Lee, Seong Hae Jeong, Seong Jin Jo
  • Publication number: 20100011612
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for drying a room within a building by sealing the room from outside ambient air ingress, heating the room internally, sensing humidity levels within the room, exhausting the air from within the room and drawing in outside ambient air, sensing water content within the room, and repeating the sequence until a dry status indication is received that the water content within the room has been reduced a pre-determined level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Jonathan Robert Jayne, Mark Lee Robinson, Philip Harris, Daniel Court, Andrew Charles Habbershaw
  • Publication number: 20100005683
    Abstract: A method of controlling a spray dryer apparatus having a spray dryer chamber (1), an air inlet (2), an inlet air control system (11) including a fan (13) and an air heater (14), a feed inlet (3), and an exhaust air outlet (4), comprising determining a content (Y) of moisture of inlet air, determining an inlet air temperature set value (Tinlet) in dependence of the inlet air moisture content (Y), determining an inlet air temperature measured value of inlet air between the air heater (14) and the spray dryer chamber (1), and regulating the inlet air temperature in dependence of the inlet air temperature set value and the inlet air temperature measured value, and determining an outlet air temperature of the exhaust air and regulating an inlet air flow rate in dependence of the outlet air temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: GEA Process Engineering A/S
    Inventor: Peter Schultz Nielsen
  • Patent number: 7644514
    Abstract: A clothes dryer which comprises a housing, a rotatable drum for receiving the clothes and a bearing for rotatably receiving the drum in the housing. In order to protect the bearing from overheating, a cooling air device for cooling the bearing is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Heyder, Thomas Nawrot, Andreas Ziemann
  • Publication number: 20090320314
    Abstract: A multi-layer type drying machine (200) is disclosed. The multi-layer type drying machine (200) has a drying space divided into several sections in a multi-layered structure for receiving objects to be dried. The multi-layer type drying machine (200) includes a container (210-214) defining a drying space for receiving objects to be dried, a plurality of shelves (252-254) mounted in the drying space, such that the drying space is divided multi-layered structure, for allowing the objects to be placed thereon, and a hot air supply unit (230, 240) for supplying hot air into the drying space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seong Jin Jo, Seong Hae Jeong, Deug Hee Lee
  • Publication number: 20090311135
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for drying instruments using superheated steam is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a chamber for receiving the instruments, a distribution means for distributing superheated steam within the chamber and an exhaust means for purging vaporized moisture from the chamber. The chamber has at least one inlet port which is connected to the distribution means. The method comprises sterilizing the instruments using saturated steam generated by the steam generation means and drying the instruments using superheated steam generated by the steam generation means to vaporize moisture within the chamber and purging the vaporized moisture from the chamber using the exhaust means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Arthur Zwingenberger, Gabriel Gheorghe Naghi, David Bryant Snaith, Jeffrey G. Dayman, Andy Kwan-Leung Sun, Michel Stanier
  • Publication number: 20090307923
    Abstract: A shed type clothes dryer, especially a shed type clothes dryer with safety ventilating member is disclosed. The shed type clothes dryer with safety ventilating member includes a heat blower, air outlet shed with plural air outlets which are set on the heat blower, umbrella shape support frame with center supporting stand which is set on the air outlet shed, clothes drying chamber formed from outer cover around the support frame. The safety ventilating member is set on the air outlet shed. A hot air relaxation chamber is formed between said safety ventilating member and the air outlet shed. The shed type clothes dryer with safety ventilating member has the following advantages: 1. mounted safety ventilating member preventing the clothes from falling on hot air port to make consumer securely use it, 2. automatically stopping after the clothes been dried by humiture probe controlling the humiture to ensure the clothes not over drying and energy saving, 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventor: Jiebo Hu
  • Publication number: 20090293302
    Abstract: An artwork drying cabinet includes a housing that defines an interior drying compartment. A plurality of removable shelves are provided in parallel spaced relation within the compartment. A hinged door provides access to the compartment for purposes of loading and removing shelves with artwork. The door includes a vent to exhaust moisture laden air from the compartment. A blower and heating element are provided to supply a heated current of air to the compartment. A shroud couples the blower and heating element to the cabinet and directs the flow of heated air into the cabinet. The blower sends the current of air over the heating element through a diffuser comprising a v-shaped baffle with a central elongated opening along the vertex. Controls are provided to regulate air speed and temperature. An optional timer controls the duration of a drying cycle. The diffuser evenly distributes parallel laminar streams of heated air above and below each shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Helbert J. Jonaitis, Steven Wallis
  • Publication number: 20090282692
    Abstract: An expandable and collapsible enclosure is provided for a garment refreshing appliance. The appliance has at least either a top or a bottom rigid housing structure. The enclosure comprises a wall structure extending substantially an entire height of the enclosure. The wall structure is made of a flexible material. An opening is provided in the wall structure through which garments can be introduced into or removed from the enclosure. A zipper is attached at the opening to selectively open and close the opening. A snap attachment mechanism is located at either or both of the top and a bottom of the wall structure for securing the wall structure to the top and/or bottom rigid housing structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: GEORGE F. SEIFFERT, TIMOTHY J. HICKS, SHAWN OLTZ, WESLEY TRAYLOR, FLOYD JACKSON
  • Publication number: 20090272006
    Abstract: The scent removing device has a housing that forms an interior compartment. The compartment is separated into a first and second portion by a shelf that is disposed within the compartment and connected to the interior of the housing. The shelf has at least one channel and a plurality of openings to permit air to flow between the first and second portions. An air tube extends from the first portion, through the shelf to the second portion. A fan motor is in communication with the air tube to blow air through the air tube and into the second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventor: Zimmerman Jamie
  • Publication number: 20090265952
    Abstract: A portable crop material dryer system for use with a flexible elongated bag in which harvested crop material is placed in situ. The dryer includes an internal combustion engine driving a blower for movement of air through the flexible container. The cooling system for the engine is connected to be in series flow relation to the air blower so as to heat the air and increase the drying capacity of the system. A burner may be connected to further increase the heating of the air and the power output of the engine may also be used to drive a generator for auxiliary purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Daniel J. Burke, Alan D. Sheidler, Bill T. Hurley
  • Patent number: 7596883
    Abstract: In a hand drying apparatus, a first air opening and a second air opening are arranged on opposing surfaces. The first air opening is displaced towards an interior of the hollow portion, for inserting wet hand, with respect to the second air opening such that axes of air jets output from the first air opening and the second air opening do not collide. Moreover, a surface that receives the air jet from an air opening on opposing surface is inclined toward the interior of the hollow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiji Kameishi
  • Publication number: 20090241366
    Abstract: A laundry treating machine and a control method of the same are disclosed. The present invention relates to a laundry treating machine capable of efficiently treating clothes received therein. The laundry treating machine includes an accommodating space receiving laundry therein, a circulation duct in communication with the accommodating space, a first condensing device provided along the circulation duct and supplying dried air to the accommodating space and a second condensing device provided along the circulation duct and increasing dryness of air supplied to the accommodating space, independent from the first condensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Dae Yun Park, Dong Won Kim, Jong Seok Kim, Sog Kie Hong, Hea Kyung Yoo
  • Patent number: 7594342
    Abstract: A spherical vacuum desiccator consists of two substantially identical shells which are connected together at an engagement region. A receiving segment and connecting segment are positioned in a spaced-apart relationship within the engaging region of each hemispherical shell. In the assembled condition of the invention, each hemispherical shell is disposed in an inverted position with respect to the other shell and the connecting segment of the two hemispherical shells engage at the receiving segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Bel-Art Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Thom, David Landsberger, Francis Gomes
  • Publication number: 20090235555
    Abstract: A clothes drying cabinet which consists of a base, a frame, a cover and a control unit is disclosed. A heat source, a warm air cushion chamber and a clothes drying chamber are provided inside the clothes drying cabinet. The heat source comprises a fan motor and a PCT heating element. The frame is positioned on the base and supported by the hanger braces. The division plate for the warm air cushioning chamber forms the warm air cushioning chamber with the protection plate of the warm air channel in the lower parts and forms the cloth drying chamber. The frame is covered outside by the cover. The control unit comprises a control panel and switches. The clothes drying effect can be improved and the drying speed can be increased, furthermore the clothes drying cabinet is safe so that the danger due to clothes falling down can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2007
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventor: Hu Jie Bo
  • Publication number: 20090211107
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dryer with a housing and a drying chamber for objects to be dried, a process air duct, in which are located a heater for warming the process air and a first fan, a motor for driving the drying chamber, a heat exchanger and a cold air section in the process air duct or in a cooling air duct, with a motor cooling duct which branches off from the cold air section being able to apply cold air to the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Falk Laube, Holger Loeffler, Andreas Ziemann
  • Patent number: 7568297
    Abstract: An improved vertical aeration system is provided for a grain bin having a sloped hopper bottom with a discharge opening. A pyramid frame includes legs with lower ends attachable to the hopper bottom. Concave perforated walls are attached to the legs. Braces extending between the legs provide structural support for the walls. An air duct extends upwardly and centrally into the interior of the frame, to supply air into the aeration system for flow outwardly through the perforated walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Woodhaven Capital Corp.
    Inventors: Ken Pierson, Brian Macdonald, John Penner
  • Publication number: 20090165328
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dryer having a drying chamber, a process air channel in which is located a heater for heating the process air and wherein the heated process air can be ducted into the drying chamber by means of a blower, a motor and a controller, which dryer is set up for operation drawing an electric power that never exceeds a pre-specified value Pmax. Means are provided that are set up in such a way that the dryer will while operating draw the electric power at least in phases in accordance with the pre-specified value Pmax. The invention relates also to a method for operating a dryer of such kind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Grunert, Uwe-Jens Krausch, Guenter Steffens, Andreas Stolze
  • Publication number: 20090158611
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dryer which is of modular construction and comprises a process air guide (15, 15?) into which a first air conducting element (161) for forming a condensation dryer (1) or a second air conducting element (16?) for forming a extraction air dryer (1?) may be installed. In the process air guide (15, 15?) is formed an insertion region (15d, 15d?) in which the first (161) or the second air conducting element (16?) is arranged, wherein the two air conducting elements (161, 16?) are designed compatibly in respect of their insertion in the insertion region (15d, 15d?), at least in certain regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Ziemann
  • Publication number: 20090151188
    Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus is disclosed. The clothes treating apparatus includes a cabinet having an accommodating space to accommodate clothes, a hot air supplying device to heat air and supply hot air to the accommodating space, and a communicating unit to communicate the accommodating space with the outside. The communicating unit includes a restraining part to restrain exhaust of hot air supplied from the hot air supplying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS
    Inventors: Jung Wook Moon, Dae Yun Park, Sog Kie Hong, Jong Seok Kim, Seung Gyu Ryu, Hye Yong Park, Chang Gyu Choi, Dong Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20090151189
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus that treats clothes into a condition suitable to wear is disclosed. The clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a receiving space defined in the cabinet for receiving clothes, an air supply device for removing moisture from the air so as to provide a dried air to the receiving space, and a fan assembly configured to circulate the dried air in the receiving space and to discharge condensed water generated in the fan assembly to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jung Wook Moon, Dae Yun Park, Sog Kie Hong, Jong Seok Kim, Seung Gyu Ryu, Hye Yong Park, Chang Gyu Choi, Dong Won Kim
  • Publication number: 20090139109
    Abstract: Disclosed is a clothing dryer comprising a base configured to form a bottom of a main body, an exhaust duct installed in the main body and outwardly guiding hot air, a fixing member disposed at the exhaust duct and an exhaust duct bracket for fixing the exhaust duct at the base by being coupled to the fixing member. The exhaust duct bracket has an exhaust duct guide unit for receiving a shape of the fixing member disposed at the exhaust duct. Accordingly, it is capable of enhancing an assembly characteristic of the exhaust duct and of reducing a fabrication cost. And, the present invention relates to a method for mounting the exhaust duct of the clothing dryer at the base of the main body, by coupling the fixing member formed at the exhaust duct and the exhaust duct bracket formed at the base of the main body to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Soo Won Park
  • Publication number: 20090113741
    Abstract: A laundry treating machine is disclosed. The laundry treating machine includes a case having a laundry receiving space for receiving laundry defined therein, the case being located above another laundry treating machine, a hot air supply unit for supplying hot air into the laundry receiving space, a manipulation part for allowing a user to select a drive course, a control unit for controlling the hot air supply unit to be driven according to the course selected by the manipulation part, and a guide unit for assisting the user to put the laundry in the laundry receiving space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Joo Yeon Kim, Kyung Ah Choi
  • Publication number: 20090113747
    Abstract: The invention relates to a washing household device, in particular to a clothes dryer, that includes an air-supply device which is arranged on a rear side area thereof and is provided with a closed self-contained cross-section flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Nawrot, Hans-Werner Stahn, Andreas Stolze, Andreas Ziemann