US Patent Class 34
DRYING AND GAS OR VAPOR CONTACT WITH SOLIDS




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  DF  CLASS NOTES
245  DF  MATERIAL TREATED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY
246  DF  .~ Electric current applied directly through material
247  DF  .~ Induction heater
248  DF  .~ Magnetic field
249  DF  .~.~ Controls particle movement in a fluidized bed
250  DF  .~ Electrostatic field
251  DF  .~.~ Having suction means
252  DF  .~.~ Having vibration means
253  DF  .~.~ Having needlelike electrodes
254  DF  .~.~ Having heating or cooling means
255  DF  .~ Radio or high-frequency energy
256  DF  .~.~ Having additional heating means
257  DF  .~.~ Having pressure reducing means
258  DF  .~.~ Plural units or chambers
259  DF  .~ Microwave energy
260  DF  .~.~ Clothes dryer
261  DF  .~.~.~ Having rotating drum
262  DF  .~.~ Having vibrating means
263  DF  .~.~ Having pressure reducing means
264  DF  .~.~ Plural units or chambers
265  DF  .~.~ Having treating gas or vapor circulation
266  DF  .~ Infrared energy
267  DF  .~.~ Having treating gas or vapor circulation
268  DF  .~.~ Radiation controlled by other drying parameters
269  DF  .~.~.~ Having temperature control
270  DF  .~.~ Vehicle paint dryer
271  DF  .~.~.~ Including evolved gas or vapor treatment
272  DF  .~.~.~ Including vehicle conveyor
273  DF  .~.~ Sheets, webs, or strands
274  DF  .~.~.~ Having gas or vapor treatment
275  DF  .~ Ultraviolet energy
276  DF  .~.~ Inert gas atmosphere
277  DF  .~.~ Having shutter means
278  DF  .~.~ With cooling means
279  DF  MATERIAL TREATED BY ACOUSTIC ENERGY
280  DF  FEATHER TREATING
281  DF  .~ With agitator
282  DF  PROCESS
283  DF  .~ Hair on head
284  DF  .~ Freeze-drying
285  DF  .~.~ With separating of frozen fluid from treated material
286  DF  .~.~.~ With gas or vapor flow to remove frozen fluid
287  DF  .~.~ Including vacuum
288  DF  .~.~.~ And spray freeze or immersion
289  DF  .~.~.~ And heating
290  DF  .~.~.~.~ Continuous processing
291  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including mixing or agitating
292  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With gas or vapor treating (e.g., filtering or condensing)
293  DF  .~.~.~.~ With gas or vapor treating
294  DF  .~.~.~.~ Desiccant or molecular sieve
295  DF  .~.~.~.~ Including mixing or agitating
296  DF  .~.~.~.~ Having specific container
297  DF  .~.~.~.~ Having specific type of material support
298  DF  .~.~ With gas or vapor treating
299  DF  .~.~.~ Desiccant or molecular sieve
300  DF  .~.~.~.~ Using filter
301  DF  .~.~.~ With additional material cooling by separate refrigeration means
302  DF  .~ Congealing or thickening
303  DF  .~.~ By adding congealing or thickening agent
304  DF  .~.~ By cooling of treated material
305  DF  .~.~ By evaporating moisturizing fluid
306  DF  .~ Sheet or web contact preventing by spacer sheet, web, or strand
307  DF  .~ Retarding or shielding of treatment
308  DF  .~.~ Radiation applying with shielding
309  DF  .~.~ Shielding by selective application of gas or vapor flow
310  DF  .~.~ Application of temporary coating
311  DF  .~.~ Shielding by use of physical barrier to treating gas or vapor
312  DF  .~ By centrifugal force
313  DF  .~.~ Continuous processing
314  DF  .~.~.~ With centrifugal spraying of the treated material
315  DF  .~.~.~ With heating
316  DF  .~.~.~ With recirculation of treated material
317  DF  .~.~ With carrier for thin discrete article
318  DF  .~.~ Rotating drum or basket
319  DF  .~.~.~ Variable speed
320  DF  .~.~.~ With pressurized atmosphere
321  DF  .~.~.~ Including heating
322  DF  .~.~.~ Foraminous basket
323  DF  .~.~.~.~ With fluidizing of treated material
324  DF  .~.~.~ With inert atmosphere
325  DF  .~.~ With pressurized atmosphere
326  DF  .~.~ Rotating gas or vapor stream
327  DF  .~.~.~ With heating
328  DF  .~.~ With additional conveying means
329  DF  .~ With contacting of material treated with solid or liquid agent
330  DF  .~.~ With regeneration or removal of treating agent
331  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent consists of both solid and liquid
332  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent is a solid
333  DF  .~.~.~.~ With treating of solid material
334  DF  .~.~.~.~ With treating of suspension or slurry
335  DF  .~.~.~.~ Using absorbent band or belt
336  DF  .~.~.~.~ Using absorbent roller
337  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent is a liquid
338  DF  .~.~.~.~ With treatment of suspension or slurry
339  DF  .~.~.~.~ With treatment of solid material
340  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Treating liquid displaces moisture
341  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Treating liquid absorbs moisture
342  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Using multiple treating liquids
343  DF  .~.~ With addition of heat to drying process
344  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent consists of both solid and liquid
345  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent is a solid
346  DF  .~.~.~.~ Solid treating agent treats same material
347  DF  .~.~.~.~ Treating of suspension or slurry
348  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent is a liquid
349  DF  .~.~.~.~ Treating suspension or slurry
350  DF  .~.~.~.~ Treating solid material
351  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Treating agent displaces moisture
352  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Treating agent absorbs moisture
353  DF  .~.~ Solid treating agent treats solid material
354  DF  .~.~.~ Using agitation or mixing
355  DF  .~.~.~ Using absorbent band or belt
356  DF  .~.~ Solid treating agent treats suspension or slurry
357  DF  .~.~ Liquid treating agent treats solid material
358  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent absorbs moisture
359  DF  .~ With fluid current conveying or suspension of treated material
360  DF  .~.~ Suspension of treated material
361  DF  .~.~.~ Including applying vacuum
362  DF  .~.~.~ Including pressurizing atmosphere
363  DF  .~.~.~ With additional heat exchange
364  DF  .~.~.~ Including gas or vapor flow variation
365  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pulsed flow
366  DF  .~.~.~ Including downward impinging fluid flow
367  DF  .~.~.~ With additional conveying
368  DF  .~.~.~ Including agitating or comminuting of treated material
369  DF  .~.~.~ Including baffle or deflector to adjust material flow
370  DF  .~.~.~ With plural treating zones
371  DF  .~.~.~ Including material separators or sorters
372  DF  .~.~ Spray drying and cooling of slurry or suspension
373  DF  .~.~.~ With contact with additional gas or vapor flow
374  DF  .~.~.~.~ Additional flow is countercurrent
375  DF  .~.~ Having embedded loop circulation of treated material
376  DF  .~ With treated material recirculation
377  DF  .~.~ Recirculation of a portion of the treated material
378  DF  .~.~.~ With additional treating of recirculated portion (e.g., heating, cooling, separating)
379  DF  .~.~.~ Recirculated portion mixed with untreated material
380  DF  .~ With nondrying treating of material
381  DF  .~.~ Nondrying treating precedes drying
382  DF  .~.~.~ Material shaping
383  DF  .~.~.~ Puncturing or incising of treated material
384  DF  .~.~.~ Grinding or comminuting
385  DF  .~.~ Material shaping
386  DF  .~.~ Mixing or grinding
387  DF  .~.~ Shearing or comminuting
388  DF  .~.~ Compacting or restraining
389  DF  .~.~ Adding of nondrying treating substance
390  DF  .~.~.~ Deodorizer
391  DF  .~.~ Cooling of treated material
392  DF  .~.~.~ Contacting material with cooling drum or roller
393  DF  .~.~.~ Contacting material with cooling fluid
394  DF  .~.~.~.~ Cooling fluid drawn through material treated
395  DF  .~.~.~.~ Cooling fluid is ambient air
396  DF  .~.~.~.~ Treated material is wood
397  DF  .~ Mechanical liquid removal
398  DF  .~.~ Using compression
399  DF  .~.~.~ Expressing liquid by use of roller
400  DF  .~.~.~ Expressing liquid by moving treated material through restriction
401  DF  .~.~ Using vibration
402  DF  .~ Gas or vapor pressure varies during treatment
403  DF  .~.~ Including subatmospheric pressure
404  DF  .~.~.~ With addition of treating agent
405  DF  .~.~ Including superatmospheric pressure
406  DF  .~ Gas or vapor pressure is subatmospheric
407  DF  .~.~ With condensation of vapor
408  DF  .~.~.~ With heating
409  DF  .~.~ Including addition of treating agent
410  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent is inert gas
411  DF  .~.~.~ Treating agent is steam
412  DF  .~.~ With heating
413  DF  .~ Gas or vapor pressure is superatmospheric
414  DF  .~.~ Sheet, web, or strand
415  DF  .~.~ Including addition of treating agent
416  DF  .~ Contacting gas or vapor with solid sorbent to store gas or vapor
417  DF  .~ With sealing of treating chamber
418  DF  .~ Diverse types of drying operations
419  DF  .~.~ Sheet, web, or strand
420  DF  .~.~.~ Including radiation or convection treatment
421  DF  .~.~.~.~ Running length
422  DF  .~.~.~ Running length
423  DF  .~.~ Sequential drying treatments
424  DF  .~.~.~ Of slurry or suspension
425  DF  .~.~.~ Using rotating drum
426  DF  .~.~ Plural treatments at same location
427  DF  .~ Combined
428  DF  .~ Cooling by gas or vapor contact
429  DF  .~.~ Including conveyor
430  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor flow to top and bottom of treated material
431  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor flow to bottom of treated material
432  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor flow concurrent or countercurrent to treated material flow
433  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor flow to top and bottom of treated material
434  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor flow to bottom of treated material
435  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor flow concurrent or countercurrent to treated material flow
436  DF  .~.~.~ Gravity flow of treated material
437  DF  .~ Treating hollow article
438  DF  .~.~ Having conveyor
439  DF  .~.~ Treating fluid directed to interior and exterior of hollow article
440  DF  .~.~ With specific support for hollow article
441  DF  .~.~.~ Support surrounds hollow article
442  DF  .~ Form-supported treated article
443  DF  .~ Gas or vapor contact with treated material
444  DF  .~.~ Sheet, web, or strand
445  DF  .~.~.~ With drying parameter control
446  DF  .~.~.~.~ Temperature or moisture control of material treated or treating gas or vapor
447  DF  .~.~.~.~ Material speed control
448  DF  .~.~.~ Vapor or gas treatment
449  DF  .~.~.~.~ Condensation of gas or vapor
450  DF  .~.~.~.~ Combustion of gas or vapor
451  DF  .~.~.~ Plural treating chambers
452  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor drawn through treated material
453  DF  .~.~.~.~ Using vacuum roller
454  DF  .~.~.~ With contact with heat exchanger (e.g., drum or roller)
455  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pocket ventilator
456  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Vacuum causes web to contact wire or felt
457  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With guide roller
458  DF  .~.~.~.~ With vacuum guide roller
459  DF  .~.~.~ Running length of treated material
460  DF  .~.~.~.~ Gas or vapor suspends treated material
461  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Gas or vapor directed to opposed surfaces of material
462  DF  .~.~.~.~ With spacing or coiling
463  DF  .~.~.~.~ Directing of gas or vapor
464  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Gas or vapor directed to opposed surfaces of material
465  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Gas or vapor directed to single surface of material
466  DF  .~.~.~ With spacing, coiling, or rolling
467  DF  .~.~ Treatment of gas or vapor
468  DF  .~.~.~ Condensation of gas or vapor
469  DF  .~.~.~.~ Collecting of condensed gas or vapor
470  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With vaporization of condensed gas or vapor
471  DF  .~.~.~.~ Regulating temperature of gas or vapor
472  DF  .~.~.~ Absorption/adsorption of gas or vapor released from treated material
473  DF  .~.~.~.~ Regeneration of absorption/adsorption material
474  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor humidity regulation
475  DF  .~.~.~.~ And gas or vapor temperature regulation
476  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor temperature regulation
477  DF  .~.~.~.~ With recirculation of gas or vapor
478  DF  .~.~.~ Combustion of gas or vapor
479  DF  .~.~.~.~ Combusted gas or vapor recirculated to treating chamber
480  DF  .~.~.~ Filtering of gas or vapor
481  DF  .~.~ Material thickness controlled
482  DF  .~.~ Material speed or quantity controlled
483  DF  .~.~.~ By moisture content of treated material
484  DF  .~.~.~.~ And temperature of material or chamber
485  DF  .~.~.~ By temperature of material or chamber
486  DF  .~.~ Timing of application of gas or vapor to treated material based on drying variables
487  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor flow directing or control
488  DF  .~.~.~ Flow direction changes during treatment
489  DF  .~.~.~.~ Reversible flow
490  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Timed control
491  DF  .~.~.~ Temperature or moisture content of treated material or chamber controls or directs gas or vapor
492  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor flow varied during treatment
493  DF  .~.~ Temperature of treating gas or vapor controlled
494  DF  .~.~.~ To prevent damage to material or system
495  DF  .~.~.~ Temperature of gas or vapor regulated by other drying variables
496  DF  .~.~.~ Multiple temperature levels of gas or vapor
497  DF  .~.~ Temperature of treating chamber regulated
498  DF  .~.~ With treated material motion
499  DF  .~.~.~ Rotating drum
500  DF  .~.~.~ With conveyor
501  DF  .~.~.~.~ Gas or vapor directed above and below material
502  DF  .~.~.~.~ Gas or vapor directed below material
503  DF  .~.~.~ Concurrent gas or vapor flow
504  DF  .~.~.~ Countercurrent gas or vapor flow
505  DF  .~.~.~.~ Gravity flow of material
506  DF  .~.~.~ Transverse flow of gas or vapor
507  DF  .~.~ Treating gas or vapor drawn through material
508  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor directed above and below treated material
509  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor directed below treated material
510  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor directed above treated material
511  DF  .~.~ Natural ambient air drying of material
512  DF  .~.~.~ Solar assisted
513  DF  .~.~ Heat conserving
514  DF  .~.~.~ Exhaust gas or vapor from treatment zone heats treating gas or vapor
515  DF  .~.~.~.~ Heat pump or recompression increases heating effect
516  DF  .~.~ Special gas or vapor
517  DF  .~.~.~ Vapor
518  DF  .~.~ Piling or arranging material treated
519  DF  .~ Conductive heating
520  DF  .~.~ Within drum
521  DF  .~.~ With evolved gas or vapor treatment
522  DF  .~ Solar drying
523  DF  APPARATUS
524  DF  .~ With automatic control
525  DF  .~.~ By web breaking
526  DF  .~.~ Of plural operations
527  DF  .~.~.~ Of specific operational sequence
528  DF  .~.~.~.~ Using specific moisture sensor structure
529  DF  .~.~.~.~ With photoelectric device
530  DF  .~.~.~.~ With vacuum sensor
531  DF  .~.~.~.~ With threshold circuit device
532  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Gaseous tube (e.g., neon)
533  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR)
534  DF  .~.~.~.~ With door switch
535  DF  .~.~.~ Having two of heater, contacting gas humidity, or gas mixing
536  DF  .~.~.~.~ With weight measuring means
537  DF  .~.~.~.~ Having wet bulb and dry bulb thermometers
538  DF  .~.~.~.~ With means to produce reduced or negative pressure
539  DF  .~.~.~.~ With fuel burner
540  DF  .~.~.~.~ Having plural compartments
541  DF  .~.~.~.~ With delivery nozzle for contacting gas or vapor
542  DF  .~.~.~.~ With means to increase humidity of contacting gas or vapor
543  DF  .~.~.~ With heater
544  DF  .~.~.~.~ And fire control means
545  DF  .~.~.~.~ And conveyor
546  DF  .~.~.~.~ And blower
547  DF  .~.~.~.~ And drive motor
548  DF  .~.~ Of gas mixing
549  DF  .~.~ Of heater
550  DF  .~.~.~ Sensor engages material
551  DF  .~.~.~ Having burner control
552  DF  .~.~.~ By steam pressure or temperature
553  DF  .~.~.~ Electric heater
554  DF  .~.~.~ Of heater blower
555  DF  .~.~.~ With means to remove excess heat
556  DF  .~.~.~ By web or strand tension or breaking
557  DF  .~.~ Of contacting gas humidity
558  DF  .~.~ Of gas or vapor pressure in treating enclosure
559  DF  .~.~.~ Subatmospheric pressure
560  DF  .~.~ Of rate of treated material motion
561  DF  .~.~.~ Web or strand
562  DF  .~.~ Of time period
563  DF  .~.~.~ By timing motor and cam
564  DF  .~.~.~.~ By plural timers
565  DF  .~.~ Of flow of gas or vapor treating fluid
566  DF  .~.~.~ With diverter means to alternate flow paths
567  DF  .~.~.~ Exhaust controlled by solvent concentration
568  DF  .~.~.~ Steam pressure controlled
569  DF  .~.~.~ Of circulation means
570  DF  .~.~.~ With flow control valve
571  DF  .~.~.~ With flow control dampers at outlet
572  DF  .~.~ Of starting or stopping
573  DF  .~.~ Of treated material feeding or discharging
574  DF  .~.~.~ Controlled by weight
575  DF  .~.~.~ Controlled by temperature
576  DF  .~ With fluid current conveying of treated material
577  DF  .~.~ Downward fluid flow impinging solid floor
578  DF  .~.~ Having tubular heat exchanger
579  DF  .~.~ With means to vary gas or vapor flow
580  DF  .~.~ With additional conveying means
581  DF  .~.~.~ Suction conveyor
582  DF  .~.~ With specific gas distributor
583  DF  .~.~.~ Having angled floor or wall
584  DF  .~.~.~ Having thermal expansion adjustment
585  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor delivery nozzle
586  DF  .~.~ With means to agitate or comminute material
587  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor presses material against screen or sieve
588  DF  .~.~ With baffle or deflector to adjust material flow
589  DF  .~.~ With plural treating zones or compartments
590  DF  .~.~.~ Serpentine path for material
591  DF  .~.~ With material separator
592  DF  .~.~.~ Plural cyclone separators
593  DF  .~.~ With mechanical rotating element
594  DF  .~.~ Using rotary gas current
58  DF  .~ With apparatus using centrifugal force
59  DF  .~.~ Rotary scattering member
60  DF  .~ For diverse operations on treated material
61  DF  .~.~ With two or more nondrying means
62  DF  .~.~ With treated material cooling means
63  DF  .~.~.~ Internal rotary drum drier
64  DF  .~.~.~ Gravity flow-type drier
65  DF  .~.~.~.~ With integral cooling chamber or section
66  DF  .~.~.~ Cooler chamber integral with or similar to drier
67  DF  .~.~.~ Atmospheric
68  DF  .~.~ Diverse heater types and/or gas or vapor contact types only
69  DF  .~.~ Diverse types of liquid removers only
70  DF  .~.~.~ With expressing or wringing
71  DF  .~.~.~ With means to remove liquid from treated material by contact with solids
72  DF  .~ With means to treat gas or vapor
73  DF  .~.~ By vapor condensation
74  DF  .~.~.~ With other gas or vapor treatment
75  DF  .~.~.~ Direct contact with cooling substance
76  DF  .~.~.~ With forced circulation
77  DF  .~.~.~.~ Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
78  DF  .~.~.~ Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
79  DF  .~.~ Separation of substances from treating or exhaust gases or vapors
80  DF  .~.~.~ By absorbent
81  DF  .~.~.~.~ In or forming walls, ceiling, or floor
82  DF  .~.~.~ By filter
83  DF  .~.~ Jet devices
84  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor circulators or flow promotors
85  DF  .~ With apparatus cleaner and/or escaping material collector
86  DF  .~ With waste gas heat and/or power conservers
87  DF  .~ With means to interlock operable elements
88  DF  .~ With display, inspecting, or illuminating means
89  DF  .~ With indicating or testing means
89.1  DF  .~ Blotting means combined with means for purpose other than drying
89.2  DF  .~.~ With ruler
90  DF  .~ Combined
91  DF  .~ Convertible
92  DF  .~ Vacuum
93  DF  .~ Solar
94  DF  .~ Sheet or web contact preventing by spacer sheets, webs, or strands
95  DF  .~ Means to remove liquid from treated material by contact with solids
95.1  DF  .~.~ Having manipulative means
95.2  DF  .~.~.~ Attachable to hand (e.g., finger)
95.3  DF  .~.~.~ For rolling contact
95.4  DF  .~.~.~ For rocking contact
96  DF  .~ For hair on head
97  DF  .~.~ With gas or vapor flow for contact
98  DF  .~.~.~ Plural distributors
99  DF  .~.~.~ Head conforming distributor
100  DF  .~.~.~.~ Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
101  DF  .~.~.~ With hair supports
102  DF  .~ Treated material recirculating means
103  DF  .~ Forms
104  DF  .~ For hollow article
105  DF  .~.~ With conveying or handling means
106  DF  .~.~ With suspension means and bottom retainer
107  DF  .~ For slender rigid articles
108  DF  .~ Rotary drums or receptacles
109  DF  .~.~ Compartmented or pocketed
110  DF  .~.~ External
111  DF  .~.~.~ With belt or felt drier
112  DF  .~.~.~ With hopper feed or article securing means
113  DF  .~.~.~ Plural
114  DF  .~.~.~.~ Gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
115  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Through material or introduction through drum
116  DF  .~.~.~.~ With belts or felts
117  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With threading, stripping, or guiding devices
118  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Tightener
119  DF  .~.~.~.~ Heat exchange fluid supply and/or removal
120  DF  .~.~.~.~ Threading, stripping, or guiding devices
121  DF  .~.~.~.~ Mounting and/or driving means
122  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
123  DF  .~.~.~ With belts or felts
124  DF  .~.~.~ Heat exchange fluid supply and/or removal
125  DF  .~.~.~.~ Removal only
126  DF  .~.~ With additional translating means
127  DF  .~.~ Plural
128  DF  .~.~.~ One within another (e.g., nested)
129  DF  .~.~.~ With feed from one to another
130  DF  .~.~ With gas or vapor flow for contact with treated material
131  DF  .~.~.~ Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
132  DF  .~.~.~ With heating means
595  DF  .~.~.~.~ With drum or receptacle enclosing housing
596  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Combined washer-dryer
597  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With material conditioner dispenser
598  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And heat retaining material
599  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And material tumbling assisting means
600  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And stationary trays in rotatable drum
601  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ And supporting, driving, sealing, or bearing means for drum
602  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Specific drum structure
603  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Specific housing structure
604  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including gas or vapor circulating means
605  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Suction means
606  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ And gas or vapor flow regulating means
607  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ And conduit to deliver gas or vapor to drum
608  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Vertical gas or vapor flow
609  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Axial gas or vapor flow
610  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Radial gas or vapor flow
134  DF  .~.~.~.~ Heat exchange and/or gas or vapor conducting conduits in drum or receptacle
135  DF  .~.~.~ Axial treated material feed type
136  DF  .~.~.~.~ Concurrent gas or vapor flow only
137  DF  .~.~.~.~ Countercurrent gas or vapor flow only
138  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor conducting conduits in drum or receptacle
139  DF  .~.~.~ With drum or receptacle enclosing housing
140  DF  .~.~ Vapor exhaust
141  DF  .~.~.~ Axial treated material feed type
142  DF  .~.~ Axial treated material feed type
143  DF  .~ Stationary press type
144  DF  .~.~ Plural press units
145  DF  .~.~ Gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
146  DF  .~.~ Nonplanar press couples
147  DF  .~ Spiral treated material path type
611  DF  .~ Sheet, web, or strand
612  DF  .~.~ Sheet elevator type
613  DF  .~.~.~ Coacting parallel threaded members
614  DF  .~.~ Sheet on edge
615  DF  .~.~.~ Stationary support
616  DF  .~.~.~ Rotary wheellike conveyor
617  DF  .~.~.~ Endless conveyor with fingers
618  DF  .~.~ For flexible sheet, web, or strand
619  DF  .~.~.~ Including horizontal support
620  DF  .~.~.~ Including roller-type conveyor
621  DF  .~.~.~ Including means to suspend work
622  DF  .~.~.~.~ Portable or collapsible
623  DF  .~.~.~ Running length
624  DF  .~.~.~.~ With contact heater
625  DF  .~.~.~.~ Winding reel
626  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With fluent heating means inside reel
627  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural webs or strands
628  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With means to separate individual webs or strands
629  DF  .~.~.~.~ With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
630  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Having solvent chamber
631  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Having means to adjust relative distance between distributor and material
632  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Having means to produce turbulence in gas or vapor
633  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Having baffle redirect gas or vapor flow
634  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Having sealing means
635  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including suction means
636  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including plural chambers or zones
637  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Having drive roller
638  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Including gas or vapor nozzle or distributor outlet
639  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Having gas or vapor flow transverse to treated material movement
640  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Fluid current support or guide
641  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Having airfoil or Coanda nozzle
642  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Having nozzles around circular manifold
643  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Having nozzles on opposite sides of web
644  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Adjustable distance between opposed nozzles
645  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Suspended loops
646  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Edge holding means
647  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Zigzag runs of treated material
648  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Including material tension adjusting means
649  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Including gas or vapor recirculation
650  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Including endless conveyors
651  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Plural zones or chambers
652  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Elongated thin gas or vapor stream
653  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Including distributor comprising tube with elongated slot
654  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Including distributor comprising perforated plate
655  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Including distributor having elongated slot
656  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Plural associated elongated slots
657  DF  .~.~.~.~ Zigzag runs of treated material
658  DF  .~.~.~ Endless conveyor or movable gripper
659  DF  .~.~.~.~ Endless conveyor
660  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Endless conveyor having material gripper
661  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Endless conveyor having material hanger
662  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Plural opposed cooperating endless conveyors
663  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Endless conveyor contacts solid perforated guide
664  DF  .~.~.~ Movable treated material holder
665  DF  .~.~.~.~ Rotary holder
164  DF  .~ Treated material vibrating type
165  DF  .~ Gravity flow type
166  DF  .~.~ Trough or tube, with axially rotary conveyor or agitator
167  DF  .~.~ Plural gravity path, plural feed, and/or discharge
168  DF  .~.~ With gas or vapor flow for contact with treated material
169  DF  .~.~.~ Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
170  DF  .~.~.~ Inverted imperforate ducts
171  DF  .~.~.~ Shelf-to-shelf or zigzag treated material flow
172  DF  .~.~.~.~ Dumping shelves or pockets
173  DF  .~.~.~.~ Rotary stirrer or shelf
174  DF  .~.~.~ Foraminous distributors or walls
175  DF  .~.~ With venting means or wall
176  DF  .~.~ With treated material tubes
177  DF  .~.~ With heating tubes
178  DF  .~.~ Shelf-to-shelf or zigzag treated material flow
179  DF  .~ Stationary receptacle or tube with agitator or conveyor
180  DF  .~.~ Plural units
181  DF  .~.~ With gas or vapor flow for contact with treated material
182  DF  .~.~.~ Axial treated material feed type
183  DF  .~.~ Axial treated material feed type
184  DF  .~ Rotary or swinging carrier or rack
185  DF  .~.~ With agitating means or discharging scrapers
186  DF  .~.~ Plural rotary or swinging units
187  DF  .~.~ With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
188  DF  .~.~.~ Air scoops and/or suspended treated material supports
189  DF  .~ Elevator type
190  DF  .~.~ Plural
191  DF  .~ Reversible or pulsating treating gas or vapor flow
192  DF  .~ Removable shelf or tray type
193  DF  .~.~ Plural nonvertically aligned
194  DF  .~.~ With shelf or tray handling means
195  DF  .~.~ With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
196  DF  .~.~.~ Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
197  DF  .~.~.~ With heater
198  DF  .~.~.~.~ With liquid heater or vaporizer
199  DF  .~.~.~ Zigzag treating gas or vapor flow
200  DF  .~.~ With liquid heater or vaporizer
201  DF  .~ Houses, kilns, and containers
666  DF  .~.~ Car dryer
202  DF  .~.~ Article inserted type
203  DF  .~.~ With conveyors providing plural or zigzag treated material paths
204  DF  .~.~.~ Separable truck or tray
205  DF  .~.~.~ Plural independent paths for treated material
206  DF  .~.~.~ Pusher type
207  DF  .~.~.~ Plural run endless conveyor
208  DF  .~.~.~ Single run endless, both courses carrying treated material
209  DF  .~.~ Plural treating units or compartments
210  DF  .~.~.~ With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
211  DF  .~.~.~.~ Superposed floors or chambers
212  DF  .~.~.~.~ Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
213  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Parallel circulation only
214  DF  .~.~.~.~ Parallel circulation only
215  DF  .~.~.~.~ With heater
216  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With conveyor and/or movable treated material support
217  DF  .~.~.~.~ With conveyor and/or movable treated material support
218  DF  .~.~ With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
219  DF  .~.~.~ Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
220  DF  .~.~.~.~ Caused by heater action only
221  DF  .~.~.~.~ Caused by jet action
222  DF  .~.~.~.~ Movable gas or vapor distributor
223  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural gas or vapor forcing means
224  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural gas or vapor inlets and/or outlets
225  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ In wall, ceiling, or floor
226  DF  .~.~.~ Tortuous gas or vapor path
227  DF  .~.~.~ Gas or vapor flow toward or from treated material entrance or exit
228  DF  .~.~.~.~ Countercurrent to treated material motion only
229  DF  .~.~.~ Movable gas or vapor distributor
230  DF  .~.~.~ Plural gas or vapor forcing means
231  DF  .~.~.~ Deflecting baffle in treating chamber
232  DF  .~.~.~ Plural gas or vapor inlets and/or outlets
233  DF  .~.~.~.~ In wall, ceiling, or floor
234  DF  .~.~.~ Caused by heater only
235  DF  .~.~ With venting means
236  DF  .~ Treated material handling or conveying
237  DF  .~ Trays or floors
238  DF  .~.~ Single or plural trays only
239  DF  .~ Supports
240  DF  .~.~ Rods or rolls
241  DF  .~ Gas or vapor distributing and applying agitators
242  DF  .~ Chamber seals
667  DF  .~ Debris guard
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DIG 1  DD  Absorbents and adsorbents