Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids inventions 12/06

20060288600 - Laundering aid for removing adherent matter from fabric articles: A laundering aid having a core member, such as an elastomeric ball member, that includes a covering comprising an abrasive or brush-like material adapted for engaging and lifting matter, such animal hair, adherent to the surface of fabric articles when the laundering aid is placed into contact with clothing and... Agent: Charles W. Agnew

20060288601 - Web-guiding device: The invention relates to a web-guiding device comprising at least one directing element (10) for guiding a web in a contactless manner in a machine that is used for producing and/or treating a moved web of material (1), especially a paper or cardboard web. Said directing element (10) is provided... Agent: Voith Fabrics

20060288602 - Heat exchanger for dryer and condensing type dryer using the same: A heat exchanger for a dryer includes a plurality of tube units configured to conduct warm humid air and a plurality of fin units configured to conduct a flow of ambient air. The tube units and fin units are alternately stacked to form a core. The fin units includes a... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060288603 - Web guiding element of a newspaper press: A web guiding element of a newspaper press includes guide rolls mounted in a frame to form a pre-assembled unit which can be inserted into a paper shaft extending through a ceiling between a reel changer region below the ceiling and a printing unit region above the ceiling. The unit... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20060288604 - Method of analyzing vaporization pattern of solvent and solvent vacuum vaporization device: A method for analysis of solvent evaporation patterns includes: continuously evacuating the gas of a single-component or multicomponent solvent evaporated under desired evaporation conditions from an object containing the single-component or multicomponent solvent housed in an airtight container, with evacuation means from the airtight container to an exhaust path connected... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060288605 - Automatic clothes dryer: An automatic clothes dryer comprises a cabinet defining an interior space in which is rotatably mounted a drum that defines a drying chamber, a heater assembly having a heating element for heating air, and a motor for rotating the drum. A blower is mounted within the interior space and is... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20060288606 - Pocket ventilator: A paper web drying apparatus is described as comprising a device for controlling an injection of air in a drying pocket of the drying apparatus. The web drying apparatus generally comprises at least three substantially axially parallel rotatable drying cylinders, first and third cylinders being vertically offset from a second... Agent: Burns & Levinson LLP

20060288607 - Forced gas flow canister dehydration: The present invention provides a method and system for ensuring that cavities used to store radioactive elements are adequately dried without intrusive measuring. In one aspect the invention is a system for drying a cavity loaded with radioactive elements, the loaded cavity having a free volume (VF), a starting vapor... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20060288608 - Automatic clothes dryer: An automatic clothes dryer comprises a cabinet defining an interior space in which is rotatably mounted a drum that defines a drying chamber, a heater assembly having a heating element for heating air, and a motor for rotating the drum. A blower is mounted within the interior space and is... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20060283038 - Web handling apparatus and process for providing steam to a web material: A method for processing a web material having a machine direction and a cross-machine direction coplanar and perpendicular thereto is disclosed herein. The method incorporates the step of first directing a web material proximate to an air foil. Steam is then applied to the web material by the air foil.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division

20060283039 - Method for drying honeycomb formed structure: The invention provides a honeycomb formed structure drying method including causing undried honeycomb formed structures 10 placed on stands 12 to pass through a drying apparatus 1, thereby drying the undried honeycomb formed structures through high-frequency heating, to thereby form dried honeycomb formed structures 11; removing the dried honeycomb formed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060283040 - De-misting system for multi-pane glazing: Multi-pane glazing units have their internal cavity vented to atmosphere by way of one or more venting apertures that are plugged by porous ‘breathing’ plugs of predetermined permeativity, to permit controlled equalization of cavity pressure with the atmosphere. The provision of two such apertures permits the admission of a flow... Agent: D.w. Eggins

20060283041 - Vacuum processing apparatus and method operation thereof: This vacuum processing apparatus has a fixed processing chamber 24 and two movable load lock chambers 28a and 28b. A gate valve 26 is provided on the processing chamber 24, and gate valves 30 are respectively provided on the load lock chambers 28a and 28b. Each of the load lock... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060277782 - Negative pressure type drying machine that utilizes the energy of the sun: A negative pressure type drying machine includes a wheeled machine base carrying an drying chamber that has the peripheral walls respectively formed of high transmittance glasses, a hygrometer/thermometer for measuring the temperature and humidity in the drying chamber, an electric heater mounted in the drying chamber at the bottom for... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20060277783 - Industrial hopper with support: An industrial hopper and support system includes a hopper having a plurality of receivers complementally configured to receive the top ends of legs of a support. The hopper is particularly designed to receive and discharge both solid and liquid material by the mounting of a selected valve, and the receivers... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20060277784 - Drying device for a wood-waste collecting machine: A drying device for a wood-waste collecting machine includes a blower set on the base of the machine and a heating member connected between the blower and the conveying device of the machine. The blower has an air outlet connected with a windpipe, and the heating member is connected with... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20060272168 - Shoe drying rack: A shoe drying rack to fit a dryer's drum, comprised of an open container divided into two mirror imaged halves joined together by an adjustable connector arm. In one embodiment, the adjustable connector arm is a telescopic arm, allowing for the sizing of the shoe drying rack to fit different... Agent: The Bilicki Law Firm, PC

20060272169 - Purging apparatus and purging method: It is an object of the present invention to easily and securely perform the removal operation of contaminant or the like from a wafer housed in a FOUP. To achieve the object, a purging apparatus of the present invention removes contaminant or the like from a wafer by moving a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060272170 - Hand dryer: A drying apparatus, and in particular, a hand dryer that comprises a first compartment and a second compartment. The first compartment comprises an inlet for allowing air to enter the first compartment and a germicidal tube mounted in the first compartment for sterilizing air in the first compartment; while the... Agent: Arthur G Schaier Carmody & Torrance

20060272171 - De-misting system for multi-pane glazing: Misted/fogged Thermopane (T.M.) windows have dry air, which may be heated, pumped through the window cavity, to remove the moisture, and to fill it with dry air, followed by insertion of porous plugs that permit the outward transfer of moisture from the cavity, while resisting any reversed moisture transfer into... Agent: D. W. Eggins

20060272172 - Dual path kiln: An dual path kiln is provided that includes a kiln having one or more chambers and at least two lumber charge paths adapted to convey lumber through the kiln in opposite directions.... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20060272173 - Laundry dryer: A laundry dryer is provided. The laundry dryer includes a drying drum to put laundry in, a base, and a condensed water storage. The base forms a passage to exhaust water vapor passing through the drying drum to the outside. The condensed water storage stores moisture contained in the water... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20060272174 - Deposition chamber desiccation systems and methods of use thereof: The present invention provides a system and method for removing contaminating moisture from a deposition chamber prior to use. Dry air, preferably hot dry air, is blown into the deposition chamber where it absorbs and removes moisture. This is done by connecting a desiccation system including a blower and a... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20060272175 - Method and apparatus for dehydrating high level waste based on dew point temperature measurements: A system and method for drying cavities loaded with high level waste (“HLW”) is devised. The invention utilizes a non-intrusive procedure that is based on monitoring the dew point temperature of a non-reactive gas that is circulated through the cavity. In one aspect, the invention is a method comprising: a)... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20060272176 - Drying devices: The invention provides a drying device for use in drying carpets, rugs after flooding or cleaning by a wet process. In addition, the drying device may be utilised for drying the fabric of dwelling, viz, the floors, walls, ceilings and under floor cavities after flooding. To these ends, the drying... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20060272177 - Clothes dryer sensor compensation system and method: A clothes drying appliance has a moisture sensor and a signal acceleration processor coupled to receive and monitor a moisture signal from the moisture sensor. The processor determines signal gradients in the moisture signal and detects either minimums or maximums in the moisture signal when a sign change occurs between... Agent: Craig Wilson

20060272178 - Triple pass tunnel finisher: A triple pass tunnel finisher for finishing fabric. The finisher includes a side module, a front module, and a rear module. The side module includes an entrance for receiving a fabric piece to be conveyed through the apparatus, and a steam injection chamber downstream of the entrance for treating the... Agent: Adams Evans P.A.