Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids inventions 03/06

20060064891 - Diesel fuel heated dessicant reactivation with pre-dry reactivation air: Dessicants employed in dehumidifying moisturized air present within a water-damaged building are themselves dehumidified to liberate collected moisture through the use of ambient air drawn over and about a heat exchanger fired by diesel fuel, with the ambient air being pre-dried prior to being drawn over and about the heat...

20060064892 - Electrostatic atomizing hairdryer and electrostatic atomizer: In an electrostatic atomizing hairdryer, electrostatically atomized mist generated in an electrostatic atomizing unit is effectively scattered into airflow emitted from a main body of the hairdryer so that the mist can be sprayed to hair uniformly and a time necessary for treatment of hair can be shortened. A tank...

20060064893 - Clothes tumbler with ozone generator: A tumbler is provided for removing odors, such as smoke, from clothing. The tumbler comprises a rotating basket in which clothing tumbles, a blower which causes air to flow through said basket and an ozone source which releases ozone into the air which flows into the basket. The tumbler includes...

20060064894 - Wafer edge wheel with drying function: An edge wheel for supporting and rotating a disk-shaped substrate includes a wheel body having a peripheral groove configured to support an edge of a substrate and at least one radial channel extending into said wheel body from said peripheral groove. An edge wheel dryer and a method for processing...

20060064895 - System and method for modulating flow through multiple ports in a proximity head: A method of forming a dynamic liquid meniscus includes forming a meniscus at a first size, the meniscus being formed between a proximity head and a first surface and changing the meniscus to a second size by modulating a flow through at least one of a set of ports on...

20060053650 - Breadcrumb manufacturing system and method: A method of manufacturing breadcrumbs, including the steps of forming a mixture, extruding the mixture to form loaves, surface drying the loaves in a first drying step, comminuting the loaves to form particles having a smaller size than the loaves, and further drying the particles in a second drying step...

20060053651 - Drying machine: An object is to provide a drying machine which can accomplish delicate drying and reduce burdens on a matter to be dried during drying while securing a predetermined evaporation temperature in an evaporator. In summary, a dry cleaner equipped with a heat pump device comprises a water-cooling heat exchanger which...

20060053652 - Freeze-drying microscope stage apparatus and process of using the same: The invention concerns methods, systems, and devices for screening arrays comprising hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of samples. These methods are useful to optimize, select, and discover compositions, or conditions for cost-effective freeze-drying of preparations and freezing of biologicals while maintaining structural integrity and/or viability. Such freeze-dried compositions are...

20060053653 - Air dryer system and method employing a jet engine: An air dryer and process employs a jet engine for producing high quality dried products. A turbofan jet engine in an air-drying system uses both thermal and non-thermal air-drying. The turbofan jet engine is housed within an air distribution chamber for directing exhaust air and bypass air from the jet...

20060048404 - Heat pump device and drying machine: There are disclosed a heat pump device and a drying machine using the device in which abnormal water supplying into a water-cooling heat exchanger for use in water-cooling of a heat pump can be easily detected without disposing any water amount gauge particularly. The heat pump device comprises: a water-cooling...

20060048405 - Drum type washing machine and dryer and method for automatic drying by using the same: Drum type washing machine and dryer and method for automatic drying by using the same is disclosed, wherein an accurate and detailed laundry amount is determined by using a temperature sensor mounted on a condensing duct of the drum type washing machine and dryer, and a user desired dryness is...

20060048406 - Clothing dryer: A clothing dryer is provided having improved blowing fan, fan casing, and motor bracket fixing structures. The clothing dryer includes a housing forming the appearance of the clothing dryer, a drying tub rotatably mounted in the housing, a blowing fan to discharge air out of the drying tub, a fan...

20060042113 - Process for separating and drying thermoplastic particles under high pressure: A process for feeding a slurry of thermoplastic synthetic polymer particles such as polyethylene terephthalate homopolymers and copolymers in combination with a liquid such as water at a liquid temperature greater than the normal boiling point of the liquid, under a pressure greater than the vapor pressure of the liquid...

20060042114 - Travel clothes dryer: A portable clothes dryer has a frame (10) comprising a spine (15) and clothing support arms (20). One or more frame components are electrically heated through the use of resistive heating elements (25). A hook (45) or other connector at the upper end of the dryer allows it to hang...

20060042115 - Blast reducing structures: A blast reducing structure having a first web and a second web. Each of the webs having a first section defining a first plane, a second section defining a second plane, the second plane being generally parallel to the first plane, an interconnecting section interconnecting the first section to the...

20060042116 - Microwave drying method of honeycomb formed bodies: A method for drying a honeycomb formed body using microwaves is provided. The method can reduce the difference in the drying speed inside the honeycomb formed bodies during the drying process and can dry the honeycomb formed bodies without cell deformation. The method comprises placing the honeycomb formed body in...

20060042117 - Method and device for carrying out chemical and physical methods: The invention relates to a method for carrying out chemical and physical methods, in particular for producing organic pigments or the preparations based thereon. The inventive method consists in injecting at least two liquids or suspensions in a vertex chamber, without using carrying gas, with the aid of two end...