Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids inventions 04/06

20060085996 - Clothing dryer: A clothing dryer capable of removing impurities contained in air being introduced into a drying tub. The clothing dryer includes a filter mounted in an air inlet port of the drying tub for drying wet clothing, so as to filter impurities, such as dust, lint, etc., contained in the air...

20060085997 - Ergonomically improved hairdryer: An ergonomically improved hairdryer construction comprises a blowing front body, a rotary middle body, a handle-shape hilt element, a sucking rear body, and a variable position gripping portion....

20060085998 - Advanced dewatering system: System for drying a tissue or hygiene web. The system includes a permeable structured fabric carrying the web over a drying apparatus. A permeable dewatering fabric contacts the web and is guided over the drying apparatus. A mechanism is used to apply pressure to the permeable structured fabric, the web,...

20060085999 - Advanced dewatering system: System for drying a tissue or hygiene web. The system includes a permeable structured fabric carrying the web over a drying apparatus. A permeable dewatering fabric contacts the web and is guided over the drying apparatus. A mechanism is utilized for applying pressure to the permeable structured fabric, the web,...

20060086000 - Dryer and method for controlling the same: A dryer and a method for controlling the same, wherein an alert is generated to inform the user that the dryer is operating abnormally, and even if a malfunction occurs in a switch provided for preventing overheating of a heater in the dryer when the dryer is operating abnormally, the...

20060086001 - Washing machine combined with dryer: A washing machine combined with a dryer is provided. In the washing machine combined with the dryer, a tub is provided, a dryer duct is installed outside of the tub, a dryer fan is installed in the dryer duct to draw in a surrounding air, a heater is installed in...

20060080854 - Centrifugal pellet dryer with plastic wall panels: A centrifugal pellet dryer including a stationary cylindrical screen, a driven elevating rotor in said screen elevating wet pellets inside the screen and imparting radial forces to the wet pellets to impact them against the interior of the screen to enable moisture on the pellets to be separated and discharged...

20060080855 - Self-cleaning centrifugal pellet dryer and method thereof: A self-cleaning centrifugal pellet dryer and method for removing surface moisture from pellets and enabling complete removal of all pellets from the dryer after each drying cycle. By eliminating dried pellets retained in the dryer, contamination of different type pellets dried during a subsequent drying cycle is avoided. Air and...

20060080856 - Stability-kerfing of green lumber to obtain improvements in drying and future utilization: A technique for end-grain creation is employed for obtaining rapid and uniform drying of lumber while simultaneously reducing warp. The stability-kerfing responsible for the improved drying of the lumber decreases the edgewise bending strength by less than ten percent, a loss readily recovered due to the ability of stability-kerfing to...

20060080857 - Hair drying and shaping system: A hair drying and shaping system is provided and has a vacuum channel connected to a vacuum source for containing hair disposed therein for treatment; a hot air channel connected to a hot air source and having communication with the vacuum channel for measurable delivery of heated air into the...

20060080858 - Low pressure high capacity dryer for resins and other granular and powdery materials: A vacuum dryer and method for drying granular or powdery material including at least one canister for holding said material being movable among a series of locations including material heating and vacuum drying locations, means for moving said canister among said locations, and means for directing heating air to a...

20060080859 - Hopper for dehumidifying loose particulate material: A hopper for dehumidifying loose particulate material, of the type constituted by a container for the particulate material, which is provided, in an upper region, with a covering provided with a manifold for loading the hopper; an air dehumidification device being functionally connected to the hopper; an area for venting...

20060080860 - Fabric article treating device and system: A fabric article treating device having a dispenser adapted for location inside of a fabric article drying appliance and a removable reservoir. The dispenser and reservoir are adapted for fluid communication with one another. The reservoir is configured to contain a benefit composition and to minimize leakage of the benefit...

20060075654 - Hair drier hot air generator retainer: A hair dryer hot air generator retainer allowing compact design, production cost reduction, and see-through attractive appearance containing a built-in hot air generator in homogenous voltage drop design; including a barrel in two separate halves and an H shape frame; multiple vitreous hot air generation devices sandwiched by two retaining...

20060075655 - Process for the continuous drying of water-surrounded granulate: The invention relates to a process for the continuous drying of water-surrounded granulate transported by a screen-type belt conveyor. In a first conveying region in the form of a chute, water is withdrawn under gravity from the plastic granulate at a temperature of >than 100° C., wherein, in a following...

20060070254 - Tumbler-dryer for capsules: A capsule dryer utilizes an upper level having a plurality of drying baskets and a lower level having a plurality of drying baskets disposed beneath the upper level of drying baskets. The footprint of the capsule dryer is thus reduced while providing a same or superior drying capabilities. Furthermore, the...

20060070255 - Gas combustion type hair dryer capable ofgenerating negative ion and method of generating negative ions in the dryer: A portable drier 1 includes a gas tank 25 in which fuel gas is stored, a combustor 11 combusting fuel gas supplied from the gas tank 25, a blower 17 through which air, heated in the combustor 11 is caused to flow to an outlet, a power supply rotating a...

20060070257 - Context identification using a denoised signal: Denoising such as discrete universal denoising (DUDE) that scans a noisy signal in an attempt to characterize probabilities of finding symbol values in a particular context in a clean signal can perform a rough denoising on the noisy signal and identify contexts from a roughly denoised signal. The rough denoising...

20060070256 - Context-based denoiser that simultaneously updates probabilities for multiple contexts: A discrete, universal denoising method is applied to a noisy signal for which the source alphabet is typically large. The method exploits a priori information regarding expected characteristics of the signal. In particular, using characteristics of a continuous tone image such as continuity and small-scale symmetry allows definition of context...

20060070258 - Sealing arrangement against a moving fabric: The invention relates to a sealing arrangement (7) against a moving fabric (4b) in a paper machine or the like. The sealing arrangement includes a stiff sealing element (9) placed on the fabric's (4b) side on the entire width in connection with a paper sheet (4a) supported by the fabric...

20060070259 - Method of drying a web: A method of drying a paper web is provided. The method utilizes a dryer, such as a through-dryer, having a first dryer section and a second dryer section. Within the first dryer section, a relatively wet paper web is dried at an elevated temperature, such as between about 400° F....