Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids inventions 02/06

20060037209 - Drying cabinet shaker mechanism: A clothes drying cabinet is provided with a shaker assembly including a bar suspended in the cabinet for supporting clothes hangers. A motor is mounted adjacent the bar and has a drive shaft. A drive weight is eccentrically mounted to the drive shaft of the motor so that upon actuation...

20060037210 - Apparatus for drying resin pellets and method for drying resin pellets: An apparatus for drying resin pellets to be supplied to a molding machine under reduced pressure of a desired level by a reduced pressure drying means comprises a preheating means for heating resin pellets to be supplied to the reduced pressure drying means to a temperature level that allows the...

20060037211 - Salad spin-drier: A salad spin-drier with a bowl of glass or ceramic so that part of the water collection bowl, which until now has been purely functional, may be simultaneously used as a serving bowl for the salad. The salad bowl as is standard apart from the bowl has a lid in...

20060037212 - Clothes pressing method and apparatus: A clothes pressing apparatus has a body block movable between a supply position at which an article of clothing can be placed on the body block and a press position at which preesing work can be achieved. A sleeve holder is also mounted on the base for holding sleeves of...

20060037213 - Drum type washing and drying machine: A drum type washing and drying machine includes a rotary drum for accommodating laundry therein; a front frame for forming a front surface of a main body of the washing and drying machine, wherein the front frame is provided with a laundry loading/unloading opening through which laundry is loaded into...

20060032071 - Sample drying device as well as mass spectrometer and mass spectrometry system therewith: A channel (103) is formed in a substrate (101) and a drying area (107) comprising a plurality of pillars (105) is formed in one end of the channel (103). A cover (109) is formed over the channel (103), except the area above the drying area (107). When a sample is...

20060032072 - Single-wafer type heat treatment apparatus for semiconductor processing system: A single-substrate heat-processing apparatus (2) for a semiconductor processing system includes a process container (4) configured to accommodate a target substrate (W). A support member (6) is disposed in the process container (4) and configured to support the target substrate (W) substantially in a horizontal state, while a bottom surface...

20060032073 - Vacuum processing apparatus and operating method therefor: This invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus having vacuum processing chambers the insides of which must be dry cleaned, and to a method of operating such an apparatus. When the vacuum processing chambers are dry-cleaned, dummy substrates are transferred into the vacuum processing chamber by substrates conveyor means from...

20060032074 - Vacuum processing apparatus and substrate transfer method: An etching processing apparatus 1 has a transfer chamber 2, a plurality of processing chambers 3 and 4, and a plurality of cassette chambers 7 and 8. Inside the transfer chamber 2, a transfer mechanism 14 is provided. A control device 17 pauses the operation of the vacuum pump 16...

20060032075 - Drying glove: Some embodiments of the invention provide a moisture absorbent hand-covering device that is in the form and shape of a glove for drying. In some embodiments, the drying glove of this invention has a first outer layer and a second inner layer. The outer layer comprises at least one layer...

20060032076 - Portable energy consuming device: An improved portable energy consuming device that uses an external power source to store kinetic energy in the device until a desired level is reached and then the external power source is disconnected from the device to form a portable device and an internal power source is automatically used to...

20060032077 - Variable ion hair styling appliances: A hair drying/styling appliance includes an ion emitting circuit which directs ion onto the hair of a user, and in which the level of ion output is variable and adjustable by a user. In preferred embodiments indicators such as a series of lights on the housing indicate the level of...

20060032078 - Method and apparatus for heating golf balls: A method and apparatus for heating golf balls or golf ball components is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing that includes a back panel comprising a plurality of slots. The slots are preferably formed such that they are parallel to a plurality of trays of golf balls. The housing also...

20060032079 - Serial thermal processor arrangement: A serial thermal processing arrangement for treating a wafer of semiconductor material, comprising one or more of the following steps of: loading the wafer into a chamber at an initial station on a rotatable table at atmospheric pressure and purging the chamber with nitrogen gas; rotating the wafer to a...

20060032080 - Device for spin drying a wiping body: The invention relates to a device for spinning liquid out of a wiping body, which is mounted on a wiping head of a surface cleaning device, comprising a container, in which a wiping head mount is mounted rotatably, into which mount the wiping head can be inserted together with the...

20060032081 - Process for the production of sap: A continuous process for the production of dried superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) the polymerization reaction is carried out either in an initially homogenous aqueous monomer solution (bulk aqueous solution polymerization) or in a heterogeneous water-in-oil reactant mixture (reverse phase suspension or emulsion polymerization) within a continuous closed polymerization reactor, then the...

20060026857 - Multi-chambers system having compact installation set-up for an etching facility for semiconductor device manufacturing: A multi-chamber system of an etching facility for manufacturing semiconductor devices occupies a minimum amount of floor space in a cleanroom by installing a plurality of processing chambers in multi-layers and in parallel along a transfer path situated between the processing chambers. The multi-layers number 2 to 5, and the...

20060026858 - Hair dryer with minus ion generator: A hair dryer is provided, which includes a housing having an air outlet, fan disposed in the housing, a pair of air flow channels extending toward the air outlet in the housing, a partition wall for separating the channels from each other, heater disposed in only one of the channels,...

20060026859 - Heater assembly for dryer: A heater assembly for a dryer is disclosed, which is stably assembled and reduces noise. The heat assembly for a dryer includes hot wires electrically heated, an insulator provided with a groove at the center, having lower and upper portions into which the hot wires are fixed, and a partition...

20060026860 - Washer/dryer plumbing connection and method: A tailpiece has been provided that includes a tubular member, a washing machine connector, and a dryer drainage connector. The washing machine connector can receive a fluid discharge from a washing machine drain line and the dryer drainage connector can receive a fluid discharge from a dryer drain line. In...

20060021245 - Drier for a web of material: A dryer is used for drying a web of material. The dryer includes a passage duct for the material web. Drying takes place within this passage duct which includes at least one straight section. The dryer is disposed on a printing group which includes vertical web guidance. The passage duct...

20060021246 - Universal access port: A universal access port includes a specific size opening that is formed through a wall of a conditioning enclosure and located at a specific distance from a floor or mounting surface. The opening is preferably rectangular in shape, but other shapes may also be used. When not in use, the...

20060021247 - Reticle carrier apparatus and method that tilts reticle for drying: A method and apparatus for cleaning, rinsing and drying a reticle used in semiconductor device manufacturing, tilts the reticle during the drying process to prevent water from the rinsing process from collecting and remaining on the reticle. The rectangularly shaped reticle is held in a carrier and the top and...

20060021248 - Body dryer: A body dryer which comprises a housing in which a fan assembly is supported at a lower end of the housing. The housing also contains an elongated heating element which extends substantially parallel to an outlet aperture which is in the form of a long slot extending substantially from one...

20060021249 - Cross-machine flow and profile control for through-air devices treating permeable webs: A through-air device includes a permeable roll having a hollow interior and mounted for rotation about a longitudinal axis. At least one divider is located in the hollow interior so as to define a plurality of roll channels within the roll, the roll channels being positioned side-by-side along the longitudinal...

20060021250 - Apparatus for supplying hot air in drum type washer with dry function: The present invention provides a drum type washer with dry function, by which a product cost is lowered and by which compatibility of a blower cover is enhanced. The present invention includes a first duct housing provided to a tub included in the drum type washer, a second duct housing...