Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids inventions 04/07

20070089316 - Clothing drying machine: A clothing drying machine having a subsidiary rack detachably installed in a drying tub. The clothing drying machine includes a cylindrical drying tub, the front and rear surfaces of which are opened; a front support plate rotatably supporting the opened front surface of the drying tub; and a subsidiary rack... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070089317 - Ducted drying rack for clothes dryer: A drying rack assembly, for use in a clothes dryer with a rotatable tumbler, is constructed with a perforated tray to support clothing in a stationary manner within the tumbler. A duct is attached to the perforated tray to direct a primary airflow through the perforated tray and to at... Agent: Maytag Corporation

20070084077 - Control system for gas turbine in material treatment unit: This invention discloses systems and methods for control of a gas turbine or a gas turbine generator, where the gas turbine is connected to a dryer vessel in which gas turbine exhaust gases are used to heat treat a material in the dryer vessel. The control system comprises one or... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070084078 - Arrangement in a paper machine: An arrangement and method for improving runnability, and dryer section length, by using a vertical impingement dryer before a first dryer cylinder of a group of dryer cylinders. After a pressing section, the web is dried with a pre-impingement dryer, closely followed by a vertical impingement dryer, which is closely... Agent: Stiennon & Stiennon

20070084079 - Multi-zone shower head for drying single semiconductor substrate: A shower head processes a wafer with a plate having a plurality of nozzles positioned thereon, each of the nozzles assigned to one of a plurality of processing zones for the wafer; and a manifold assembly coupled to each of the nozzles to control one or more of the nozzles... Agent: Tue Nguyen

20070079522 - Microwave reactor having a slotted array waveguide: A system for heating materials, such as wood products, is provided. The system may include waveguide having one or more slots along a longitudinal axis of the waveguide. The slots may be slanted at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis and spaced at an interval of about one... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070079523 - Microwave reactor having a slotted array waveguide coupled to a waveguide bend: A system for heating wood products is provided. The system may include a launcher. The launcher may include a waveguide bend and a waveguide. The launcher may have one or more slots along the longitudinal axis of the waveguide. The slots may be slanted at an angle with respect to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070079524 - Hand dryer: A hand dryer is disclosed having little unpleasant blowback from the hand insertion opening portion of the hand drying chamber and little splattering of water droplets around the device, and offering superior drying performance. The hand dryer 1 of the present invention comprises a box-shaped main housing 2 constituted by... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070079525 - Devices and methods for thermophoretic and electrophoretic reduction of particulate contamination of lithographic reticles and other objects: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for reducing particle contamination of a surface of an object such as a reticle used in an EUV lithography system. An exemplary apparatus includes a thermophoresis device and an electrophoresis device. The thermophoresis device is situated relative to and spaced from the surface, and is... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070079526 - Domestic dryer and method for detecting a rotary movement of a drum: The invention relates to a domestic dryer and a method for detecting a rotary movement of a drum (16) driven by a motor (24), which takes place by means of a device (44) which comprises a capacitive sensor (45). This capacitive sensor (45) has a first conducting armature (46) arranged... Agent: Bsh Home Appliances Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070074419 - Multi-layer dryer seal: A dryer seal of substantially simplified construction which utilizes a folded construction of cooperating fibrous layers that are held in adjoined needled relation across their contacting surfaces. The needled layers are folded over and seamed inboard of the folded edge to yield a first leg and a second leg projecting... Agent: J.m. Robertson Intellectual Property

20070074420 - Method and apparatus for dehumidification: The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for dehumidifying, drying or the like of different materials. The invention is developed primarily for dehumidification of sewage sludge (7), but it may be utilized for many different materials including foodstuffs as crispbread and pasta. The sludge (7) or other material is... Agent: Steven S Payne