Abstract: A portable, yard waste incinerator system with a large burn tank located on a transport and configured for burning yard waste. Located inside the burn tank is lower primary combustion chamber and an upper secondary chamber, Located inside the primary burn housing with a burner. Propane fuel is connected to an external propane gas source which delivers propane to the burner. The primary burn housing includes a plurality of holes that allows flames and hot gases from the fire and heat from the primary combustion chamber to extend into a secondary combustion chamber. The system also includes a vacuum system which picks up small, loose combustible debris from the yard and delivers the debris and oxygen to the secondary combustion chamber. The system also includes an optional electric generator that energizes the vacuum system and an optional shredder that delivers shredded yard waste to the secondary burning chamber.

Abstract: An air conditioning system (1) includes an outdoor subsystem, an indoor subsystem and a power module (3) for driving a cooling medium. The outdoor subsystem is configured with a plurality of parallel branches (4) and said branches (4) comprise a branch inlet and a branch outlet, each branch (4) is configured with an outdoor unit (5) and a first control valve (6). The air conditioning system includes a controller (7), a first pressure sensor (8) and a second pressure sensor (9), the controller (7) comprises a first pressure difference determination module that communicates with the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor, and a first control module of the first pressure difference that communicates with the first pressure difference determination module and the first control valve (4), where the first pressure difference determination module determines the pressure difference between the outlet and the inlet of the branches.

Abstract: A storage apparatus has an annular array of stacked item storage formations, and an epicyclic selector arrangement for extracting items from the array, with a temporary storage unit.

Abstract: An automatic material feeder includes a feeding member defining a feeding track, a driver, a sliding member driven by the driver and defining a latch portion and a transportation portion communicating with the latch portion, a gas generator, an air intake conduit connected to the gas generator, and a delivery conduit. The sliding member transfers material from the feeding track to a position where the latch portion corresponds to the delivery conduit, and the transportation portion communicates with the air intake conduit, and the gas generator generates gas to force the material received in the latch portion to enter the delivery conduit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum loader assembly wherein the assembly is comprised of a frame, a first and second tube, a flexible tube, a motor, and a sweeper assembly. The frame is adapted to be positioned over an opening of the container. The first tube is mounted to the frame and is in fluid communication with a vacuum source. The second tube is rotatably mounted to the first tube and is also in fluid communication with the first tube and the sweeper assembly is mounted to the second tube. The flexible tube extends from the second tube such that, when the frame of the present invention is placed over a container, the second tube, flexible tube, and sweeper assembly are lowered into the container and rotated by the motor such that, when the vacuum source is activated, the flexible tube suctions out the contents of the container.

Abstract: A dispensing system having a hopper with at least one wall moveable to form a dispensing opening at the base of the hopper. At least one air knife is provided which blasts air upwardly into the hopper to lift, levitate, and mix the product within the hopper. Upon termination of the air blast, the product falls downwardly into the base for the hopper, and a selected number of items fall through the dispensing opening. The remaining items tend to bridge the dispensing opening, thereby blocking further dispensing of the product. During subsequent air blasts, the product is repeatedly levitated, agitated, and allowed to drop through the dispensing opening to ultimately dispense the entirety of the product from the hopper.

Abstract: The fabric transport system comprises a series of fluidly communicating tubes and includes: an intake line configured to receive a fabric piece from the predetermined departure location; a main line fluidly connected at one end with the intake line; a branch line being fluidly connected at its upstream end to an intermediate portion of the main line at a junction; a vacuum source connected with the downstream end of the branch line for drawing air of sufficient quantity and velocity through the intake line, the main line, and the branch line to draw a fabric piece into the intake line and the main line; and a counterflow valve positioned on an intermediate portion of the main line downstream of the junction between the main line and the branch line. The branch line includes a deposit nozzle leading to the predetermined destination.

Abstract: The fabric transport system comprises a series of fluidly communicating tubes and includes: an intake line configured to receive a fabric piece from the predetermined departure location; a main line fluidly connected at one end with the intake line; a branch line being fluidly connected at its upstream end to an intermediate portion of the main line at a junction; a vacuum source connected with the downstream end of the branch line for drawing air of sufficient quantity and velocity through the intake line, the main line, and the branch line to draw a fabric piece into the intake line and the main line; and a counterflow valve positioned on an intermediate portion of the main line downstream of the junction between the main line and the branch line. The branch line includes a deposit nozzle leading to the predetermined destination.

Abstract: The fabric transport system comprises a series of fluidly communicating tubes and includes: an intake line configured to receive a fabric piece from the predetermined departure location; a main line fluidly connected at one end with the intake line; a branch line being fluidly connected at its upstream end to an intermediate portion of the main line at a junction; a vacuum source connected with the downstream end of the branch line for drawing air of sufficient quantity and velocity through the intake line, the main line, and the branch line to draw a fabric piece into the intake line and the main line; and a counterflow valve positioned on an intermediate portion of the main line downstream of the junction between the main line and the branch line. The branch line includes a deposit nozzle leading to the predetermined destination.

Abstract: A powder dispersing apparatus which can disperse every given amount of sample powder in a gas even when the amount is small, thereby continuously generating dispersed powder or floating powder at a desired concentration.

Abstract: In a toner transfer system of a printer or copier, a suction nozzle inside a toner-tight protective sheath is arranged in verticallly displaceable fashion in a guide in the printer or copier, this suction nozzle being in communication via a pipe line with a developer station of the printer or copier. At it slower end, the guide has an adaptor for connection to a toner container. When the toner container is to be changed, the toner container is swivelled via a holding mechanism and a new container is connected to the adaptor. A cutter on the adaptor then punctures a sealing foil over the filling and emptying opening of the toner container. For emptying, the suction nozzle moves vertically into the toner container whose floor is fashioned funnel-shaped to form a toner collecting region.

Abstract: Printers' ink liquid work product transfer apparatus is provided to transfer raw printers' ink work product stored in drums to a remote location for processing into finished commercial printers' ink. The mechanism includes means to provide substantially simultaneous operations comprising: rotating the drum; scraping product residue from the interior wall surface of the drum; pumping the work product from the drum; and lowering the nozzle of a pump connected work product inlet tube in a work product-filled drum at the same rate that the level of the work product is lowered in the drum by pumping action. When the nozzle of the work product inlet tube reaches the bottom of the drum, the work product in the drum will have been substantially completely emptied of work product.

Abstract: A power-driven structure comprises a long grider (I) supported at its both ends by self-propelled carriages (II) which raise and lower the girder, the implement being designed for travel across planted fields or orchards without compacting the soil. Various implements, such as a cotton harvester (34), a potato picker (VIII) or a fruit collecting device may be suspended from, and propelled along, the girder (I). A mechanical conveyor (15) extends along the top of the girder, and a pneumatic conveyor system (13) is arranged underneath the mechanical conveyor. The pneumatic conveyor system is provided with spaced nozzles (40) for connection to flexible suction pipes (34).

Abstract: A mobile, self-contained, pneumatic granular material conveying system is disclosed which comprises a trailer at least one granular material receiving and discharging kettle mounted thereon. An articulated vacuum arm is rotatably mounted on the rear portion of the trailer. The vacuum arm is capable of being extended forwardly along the length of the trailer during storage and has an intake nozzle located at its outer end and a conveying line attached thereto for conveying material from the nozzle to the kettle. The vacuum arm is rotatable and vertically and horizontally moveable to provide three dimensional positive control of the position of the nozzle. As a result an operator may move the nozzle in the material to break up clumps. A pendant control electrically connected to the trailer permits the operator to position himself adjacent the granular material to be unloaded, which facilitates precise manipulation of the vacuum arm.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are described for removing material from a sump. The sump has substantially parallel and elongated sidewalls and has a longitudinal axis. The sump is enclosed with ends and a bottom and is adapted for filling with a water-solid mixture to form a slurry. A suction pump is mounted above the sump and extends into the sump for removal of water and solid material. Apparatus is attached to the suction pump for moving the suction pump along the longitudinal axis of the sump. The actual rate at which the suction pump is trammed is determined by apparatus which measures the concentration of the slurry near the pump and transmits a signal to a control unit which operates the tramming control circuit to maintain the concentration at a predetermined ratio of material to water.

Abstract: A process for the transport of powdered or particulate material from a container, such as a tank of a ship, via its upper opening to a separately disposed delivery location. The transport occurs with a transport apparatus which is provided with a feed head (31) for the detachment and feeding of material to the transport apparatus at its material intake end. The feed head pushes the material laterally inwards into the lower end of an upwardly directed transport pipe (30) just above an upwardly directd air current for fluidizing of the material gradually as it is pushed into the transport pipe and for transport of the material in the height direction through the transport pipe in a fluidized condition. The feed head is preferably provided with two diameterially opposite material feed openings for pushing the material from opposite directions towards the central axis of the transport pipe.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are described for removing material from a sump. The sump has substantially parallel and elongated sidewalls and has a longitudinal axis. The sump is enclosed with ends and a bottom and is adapted for filling with a water-solid mixture to form a slurry. A suction pump is mounted above the sump and extends into the sump for removal of the water and solid material. Apparatus is attached to the suction pump for moving the suction pump along the longitudinal axis of the sump. When the suction pump reaches the end of the sump, apparatus rotates the suction pump through 180 degrees and then the moving apparatus again moves the sump along the longitudinal axis to the other end where it is again rotated in the opposite direction through 180 degrees to the original point for repeating the process.

Abstract: A mobile vehicular mounted pneumatic conveying apparatus is disclosed which comprises a self-propelled vehicle having an elongated boom capable of being elevated and rotated relative to the vehicle, with the boom having a nozzle structure mounted on the other end thereof for engaging dry particulate material to be conveyed. The apparatus also has a material transfer assembly which includes at least one closed vessel for receiving material from said nozzle under vacuum pressure and for subsequently expelling material into a conveying line under positive pressure. The transfer assembly can be easily removed from the vehicle and a rearward carriage that is attached to the transfer assembly can similarly be removed. The apparatus is particularly adapted for conveying large quantities of dry, particulate material such as Portland cement from a large horizontal storage building as opposed to a vertical silo or the like.

Abstract: A compact vacuum conveyor apparatus for the pneumatic conveyance of loose bulk materials includes a separator, a delivery device, a vacuum pump aggregate and the necessary appurtenances which are operationally assembled and contained in a support cabinet of rectangular parallelepipedal shape and of about the size of a large shipping container which can be loaded onto a truck. A hollow tubular conveyor extends from and is supported on the front wall of the cabinet and is connected to the separator. A crane structure supports the conveyor and is likewise mounted on the front wall of the cabinet, a compression chord of the crane being supported on bearing lugs along the cabinet front wall, and being upwardly and downwardly pivotable about a horizontal axis of rotation by means of hydraulic piston and cylinder units extending between a tension chord of the crane and the roof of the cabinet.

Abstract: A mobile vehicular mounted pneumatic conveying apparatus is disclosed which comprises a self-propelled vehicle having an elongated boom capable of being elevated and rotated relative to the vehicle, with the boom having a nozzle structure mounted on the other end thereof for engaging dry particulate material to be conveyed. The apparatus also has a material transfer assembly which includes at least one closed vessel for receiving material from said nozzle under vacuum pressure and for subsequently expelling material into a conveying line under positive pressure. The transfer assembly can be easily removed from the vehicle and a rearward carriage that is attached to the transfer assembly can similarly be removed. The apparatus is particularly adapted for conveying large quantities of dry, particulate material such as Portland cement from a large horizontal storage building as opposed to a vertical silo or the like.

Abstract: A slurry recovery sump apparatus is formed from a substantially vertical sidewall and a substantially circular horizontal cross-section and includes a bottom. A support extends diametrically across the sump and above the sump, a material input is mounted between the sidewall and the vertical axis of the sump and is attached to the support, a slurry removal apparatus is mounted to the support between the sidewall and the sump vertical axis on the opposite side from the material input. Apparatus is provided for rotating the sump support around the vertical axis and additional apparatus is provided for moving the sump removal apparatus in a prescribed manner to empty the material being deposited into the sump by the material input.

Abstract: A system for removing packing coke from baking chambers of a furnace for baking carbon bodies includes a crane mounted for movement along a rail, a silo supported by the crane, a suction tube connected to the silo and insertable into packing in a furnace baking chamber, and structure for supplying vacuum to the suction tube to remove the packing coke therethrough from the chamber into the silo. The vacuum structure includes a closed vacuum duct extending parallel to the rail, the vacuum duct having an upper slide surface and a plurality of valves spaced along the slide surface. A stationary vacuum source is connected to the vacuum duct and creates therein a vacuum. A sliding box is supported by the crane and is movable thereby along the vacuum duct over the valves on the slide surface. Each valve is openable by a respective pneumatic cylinder.

Abstract: A fiber bale opener includes a truck arranged for back-and-forth displacement along a travelling path, an opening mechanism carried by the truck and arranged for removing fiber from the top of fiber bales positioned along the travelling path and a suction apparatus for carrying away, by an air stream, fiber removed from the bales by the opening mechanism. The suction apparatus includes a suction duct extending in the direction of the travelling path and a throughgoing slot on one side of the duct, extending parallel to the travelling path. The suction apparatus further has a flexible cover belt which extends over the slot for sealing the inside of the duct from the environment and which defines an interstice within the truck. The interstice travels with the truck and provides a passage for the fiber from the opening mechanism to the inside of the suction duct.

Abstract: A pneumatic conveying apparatus for reloading bulk materials, comprising a suction line formed by a vacuum pump connected to a settling chamber, and to an intaking nozzle, a discharge mechanism connected to the settling chamber, an electrically driven nozzle-transfer mechanism, and an electric drive controlling device. The electric drive controlling device constitutes a vacuum sensitive element connected into the suction line, while the electric drive of the nozzle-transfer mechanism being of a variable type, is supplied with a master switch, having its input mechanically linked to the output of the vacuum sensitive element.

Abstract: A pneumatic device for unloading cargoes of particulate materials from ships' holds is described in which inside a length of pipe, which sucks the material out of the hold and is principally in the horizontal position, there is at least one fluidizing base which transports the material further and into a silo. The fluidizing or transporting base can be selected to match the requirements for efficient transportation of different kinds of particulate material.