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Disclosed herein are free flowing coated particles and low temperature methods of making same. Each particle has a curable coating disposed upon a substrate. The substrate is a particulate substrate including an inorganic material, a particulate substrate including an organic material, a composite substantially homogeneous formed particle including a first portion of an at least partly cured binder and filler particles, or a hybrid particle having an inorganic particle as a core and a composite coating including at least partially cured resin and filler. The curable coating includes a continuous phase including resole resin and reactive powder particles embedded or adhered to the continuous phase. The reactive powder particles typically include resole resin, novolak resin, polyester, acrylic and / or urethane. A method including applying a coating including the continuous phase including resole resin and reactive or non-reactive powder particles embedded or adhered to the continuous phase.

A method of manufacturing absorbent sheet is directed to a wet-press / fabric-crepe process wherein add-on of adhesive to the Yankee surface is at relatively low levels, yet sheet transfer is maintained and production increased. Materials are selected and process parameters are controlled such that a paper machine can be operated for at least 4 hours before the Yankee coating needs to be stripped. Preferably, average increase in Yankee hood temperature is less than 1° F. / minute during a production interval.

Disclosed herein are free flowing coated particles and low temperature methods of making same. Each particle has a curable coating disposed upon a substrate. The substrate is a particulate substrate including an inorganic material, a particulate substrate including an organic material, a composite substantially homogeneous formed particle including a first portion of an at least partly cured binder and filler particles, or a hybrid particle having an inorganic particle as a core and a composite coating including at least partially cured resin and filler. The curable coating includes a continuous phase including a curable liquid resin and reactive powder particles embedded or adhered to the continuous phase. The reactive powder particles typically include one or more of a resole phenolic-formaldehyde resin, a novolak phenolic-formaldehyde resin, a polyester resin, an acrylic polymer resin, a urethane resin or an epoxy resin. A method including applying a coating including the continuous phase including the curable resin and reactive or non-reactive powder particles embedded or adhered to the continuous phase.

A toothbrush sterilization unit for sterilizing the bristle-head of at least one toothbrush with a disinfectant. The toothbrush sterilization unit includes a housing having an interior compartment. The interior compartment includes a plurality of docking stations for holding in place a plurality of toothbrushes. The housing includes a pumping system assembly for dispensing a disinfectant on the bristle-heads of the toothbrushes during a dispensing cycle. The housing also includes a rotary fan and a heating member for drying the disinfectant on the bristle-heads of the plurality of toothbrushes during a drying cycle.

Disclosed herein are free flowing coated particles and low temperature methods of making same. Each particle has a curable coating disposed upon a substrate. The substrate is a particulate substrate including an inorganic material, a particulate substrate including an organic material, a composite substantially homogeneous formed particle including a first portion of an at least partly cured binder and filler particles, or a hybrid particle having an inorganic particle as a core and a composite coating including at least partially cured resin and filler. The curable coating includes a continuous phase including resole resin and reactive powder particles embedded or adhered to the continuous phase. The reactive powder particles typically include resole resin, novolak resin, polyester, acrylic and / or urethane. A method including applying a coating including the continuous phase including resole resin and reactive or non-reactive powder particles embedded or adhered to the continuous phase.

An object is to provide a drying machine capable of maintaining air discharged into a housing chamber while efficiently drying a matter to be dried in a short time. A drying machine provided with a housing chamber which houses the matter to be dried, and executing a drying operation of the matter to be dried in the housing chamber comprises: a gas cooler; an evaporator; a blower fan; an air circulation path for discharging air heated by the gas cooler into the housing chamber by the blower fan, sending the air passed through the housing chamber into the evaporator, and circulating the air in the gas cooler; and a closable outside air introduction port for mixing outside air with the air circulating in the air circulation path.

A composition and method of controlling a fire are disclosed. The composition contains a superabsorbent polymer, a colorant, an opacifying agent, and water. The method includes a step of applying the composition to a combustible object, either before or after initiation of combustion. The composition and method are especially useful for application to vegetation or foliage to prevent, retard, suppress, and / or extinguish forest fires and wildfires.

A method of manufacturing absorbent sheet is directed to a wet-press / fabric-crepe process wherein add-on of adhesive to the Yankee surface is at relatively low levels, yet sheet transfer is maintained and production increased. Materials are selected and process parameters are controlled such that a paper machine can be operated for at least 4 hours before the Yankee coating needs to be stripped. Preferably, average increase in Yankee hood temperature is less than 1° F. / minute during a production interval.

One of many embodiments of a substrate preparation system is provided which includes a head having a head surface where the head surface is proximate to a surface of the substrate. The system also includes a first conduit for delivering a first fluid to the surface of the substrate through the head, and a second conduit for delivering a second fluid to the surface of the substrate through the head, where the second fluid is different than the first fluid. The system also includes a third conduit for removing each of the first fluid and the second fluid from the surface of the substrate where the first conduit, the second conduit and the third conduit act substantially simultaneously.

A substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a spin chuck (3) that holds a substrate (W) and rotates the same. A process liquid supply system (11, . . . ) is disposed to supply a process liquid to the substrate rotated by the spin chuck. There are disposed a fluid nozzle (12) that supplies to the substrate a drying fluid having a higher volatility than that of the process liquid, and an inert gas nozzle (13) that supplies an inert gas to the substrate. A nozzle moving mechanism (15, 52, . . . ) is disposed that moves the nozzles (12, 13) radially outward relative to a rotational center (Po) of the substrate, while maintaining the inert gas nozzle nearer to the rotational center of the substrate than the fluid nozzle.

A drying and storing apparatus for powdered or granular material and a feeding system for powdered or granular material. The apparatus comprises a heating and drying chamber having a discharge port at its lower end and a thermal conductive heating means therein and a hopper chamber connected to the upper end of the heating and drying chamber, in which the heating and drying chamber and the hopper chamber constitute a integrally combined material storage processing tank for powdered or granular material.

A method for processing a substrate is provided which includes generating a fluid meniscus on the surface of the vertically oriented substrate, and moving the fluid meniscus over the surface of the vertically oriented substrate to process the surface of the substrate.

A method for drying a plurality of objects in a same space using a microwave, a method of uniformly drying all the objects to be dried while retaining the high productivity (mass productivity) as much as possible is provided. The method comprises laying a plurality of objects to be dried apart from each other by keeping, as a shortest distance between at least one pair of adjacent objects among them a distance equivalent to ¾ or more of the wavelength of the microwave to be used and irradiating them with the microwave.

The invention relates to the preservative coating technology, in particular to a water-based two-pack polyurethane preservative coating and a preparation method thereof. The water-based two-pack polyurethane preservative coating comprises two parts, namely paint vehicle and curing agent, wherein the paint vehicle is prepared from water-based hydroxylated acrylic dispersion, modified resin, pigment, filler, additive and water, the curing agent part comprises hydrophilic aliphatic isocyanate, dodecyl ester and propylene glycol methyl ether acetate. When using the coating of the invention, the weight ratio of the paint vehicle to the curing agent is 74-85:15-26 and the coating can solve the defects of the existing preservative coating.

The present invention discloses one kind reflux type temperature controllable sludge drying apparatus and method. Drying sludge in 5-20 % is mixed with wet sludge and through the sludge inlet with two, one transverse and one longitudinal, layers of cutting steel wires, sludge is cut into small blocks before entering into the rotary kiln. Inside the rotary kiln, sludge is thrown and crushed by the throwing plate and chain for fast heating to dry in the temperature controlled with the jetting blower. Hot sludge from the rotary kiln is blown with the cold wind blower to further dry. The dried sludge is crushed and sieved, sludge with size below 4 mm is pelletized for comprehensive utilization and large sized sludge is refluxed. The present invention can reach ideal drying effect while maintaining over 95 % of its organic matter components.

A drying device in accordance with the invention is characterized by including: an air blowing portion for blowing pressurized air so as to dry a surface to be dried by a jet of pressurized air whose abutment area to the surface to be dried is narrower than the surface to be dried; and a moving unit for moving the air blowing portion while the jet is being blown such that the jet blown from the air blowing portion sequentially sweeps a substantially entire surface of the surface to be dried, wherein the moving unit includes a first moving device for moving the air blowing portion in a state in which a blowing direction of the jet is being maintained so as to form a predetermined angle with respect to a moving direction of the air blowing portion and a second moving device for moving the air blowing portion in a direction different from that of the moving direction.For example, this first moving device moves in an advancing / retracting direction of the air blowing portion, and the second moving device deflects the blowing direction of the jet.

A head is provided which includes a first surface of the head capable of being in close proximity to the wafer surface, and includes a first conduit region on the head where the first conduit region is defined for delivery of a first fluid to wafer of the surface and the first conduit region is defined in a center portion of the head. The head further includes a second conduit region on the head which surrounds the first conduit region, and includes a third conduit region on the head which is defined for delivery of a second fluid to the wafer surface. The third conduit region semi-encloses the first conduit region and the second conduit region. The second conduit region enables a removal of the first fluid and the second fluid. The delivery of the first fluid and the second fluid combined with the removal by the third conduit region of the head defines a controllable meniscus.

A washing / drying machine has objects to shorten a time required for a washing operation, to improve a heat exchange capability in a radiator and an evaporator, and to shorten a drying time for things to be dried, and comprises: an accommodating chamber in which things to be washed (things to be dried) are accommodated and in which a drying operation of the things to be washed is performed; a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a gas cooler, a decompression device, an evaporator and the like are successively connected to one another in an annular form via a piping and in which carbon dioxide is used as a refrigerant and which has a supercritical pressure on a high pressure side thereof; and blower means for blowing air which has exchanged heat with the radiator into the accommodating chamber to allow the air passed through the accommodating chamber to exchange the heat with the evaporator, wherein the blower means constitutes a circulation direction of the air passed through the gas cooler, and that of the refrigerant flowing in the gas cooler in such a manner as to form a counter-flow, and constitutes a circulation direction of the air passed through the evaporator, and that of the refrigerant flowing in the evaporator in such a manner as to form a counter-flow.

An object is to provide a drying machine capable of maintaining air discharged into a housing chamber while efficiently drying a matter to be dried in a short time. A drying machine provided with a housing chamber which houses the matter to be dried, and executing a drying operation of the matter to be dried in the housing chamber comprises: a gas cooler; an evaporator; a blower fan; an air circulation path for discharging air heated by the gas cooler into the housing chamber by the blower fan, sending the air passed through the housing chamber into the evaporator, and circulating the air in the gas cooler; and a closeable outside air introduction port for mixing outside air with the air circulating in the air circulation path.

The invention relates to an organic-inorganic composite combined advanced monolithic refractory which has the formula of 40 to 56 percent of 5-1mm corundum or bauxite, 12 to 30 percent of 1-0.0088mm corundum or bauxite, 16 to 25 percent of corundum or bauxite with d90 less than 0.088mm, 0 to 5 percent of alpha alumina micropowder, 1 to 8 percent of hydratable alumina, 1 to 6 percent of siliceous dust, 0 to 2 percent of calcium aluminate cement, 0.05 to 0.4 percent of external efficient water reducing agents (polycarboxylic acid plus sulfonation naphthaldehyde polymer plus sulfonation melamine polymer), 1 to 6 percent of latex of the system of external polyacrylic acid, 1 to 6 percent of external water and 0 to 3 percent of external heat-resistant steel fiber. Casting materials of the invention have excellent performances of condensation, hardening, demoulding, drying and heating and are suitable for high-temperature furnace projects with changeful field conditions.

An insert for use with a dish washer provided with a rotary spray arm having a nozzle therein and with at least one rinsing basket. The insert is provided at least one receptacle for securely supporting a bottle with its opening in alignment with the rotary path of movement of the nozzle. Protrusions are provided in the receptacle for resiliently maintaining a bottle in its position.

A drying apparatus has a casing, a cavity formed in the casing for receiving an object, and a fan located in the casing and creating an airflow. At least one slot-like opening communicates with the fan and is arranged in the casing so as to direct an airflow transversely across the cavity. The slot-like opening is formed between opposing walls which are manufactured from a thermosetting plastics material. By manufacturing the walls of the slot-like opening from a thermosetting plastic material such as melamine, the walls of the slot-like opening can be molded economically instead of machined from metal. The thermosetting plastic material is dimensionally stable when moulded, thermally resistant and impact resistant.

A dope containing cellulose acylate as a main content of polymer is cast on a moving belt in a method of producing a film. At least first and second drying units are arranged in a moving direction of the belt and disposed near the gel-like film on the belt. A temperature difference between a supplied drying air and an exhausted air in the first drying unit is higher than in the second drying unit. Further, the exhausted air of the first drying unit, in order to use as the drying air of the second drying unit, is heated by a heat exchanger such that the content of solvent is decreased. A produced film is excelling in thickness uniformity, and adequate to used as an optical polymer film. Polarizing filter, protective film, optical functioning film and liquid crystal display in which the film is used are excellent in optical properties.

The subject invention produces a water-absorbent resin by carrying out stationary polymerization of an ethylenically-unsaturated monomer containing acrylic acid and / or acrylate; cutting the resulting hydrous gelatinous polymer; and drying the hydrous gelatinous polymer which mainly contains angular particles having 6 smooth planes. The resulting water-absorbent resin particles are not aggregate, and can be efficiently dried. By coating at least a part of the surface of each of the particles with an adhesion block agent before, after, and / or at the time of cutting process, the adhesion preventing effect further increases.

A drying apparatus has a casing, a cavity formed in the casing for receiving an object, and a fan located in the casing and creating an airflow. At least one slot-like opening communicates with the fan and is arranged in the casing so as to direct an airflow transversely across the cavity. The slot-like opening is formed between opposing walls which are manufactured from a thermosetting plastics material. By manufacturing the walls of the slot-like opening from a thermosetting plastic material such as melamine, the walls of the slot-like opening can be molded economically instead of machined from metal. The thermosetting plastic material is dimensionally stable when moulded, thermally resistant and impact resistant.

A ventilation system is disclosed for a cast of the type which encompasses a limb with a rigid material such that an inside surface of the cast faces the limb while an outside surface of the cast is spaced outwardly from the inside surface. The ventilation system includes a tube insertable through the cast so that one end of the tube is open to the limb while the other end of the tube is open to the outside surface of the cast. A source of pressurized air is then fluidly connected to the other or outside end of the tube thus forcing air flow through the tube and into the area between the inside surface of the cast and the limb.

This invention discloses a method for producing Ti-rich V-Ti oxidized pellets by chain grate and rotary kiln. The method comprises: mixing vanadic titanomagnetite concentrate with common magnetite concentrate at a weight ratio of 7:3, adding 2.0 wt. % of bentonite, palletizing to obtain 8-16 mm pellets by a disc pelletizer, drying (50-350 deg.C) and pre-heating (500-1000 deg.C) by a chain grate for 12 min, sending dried pellets into a rotary kiln, torrefying at 1150-1300 deg.C and 1.0 r / min for 30-35 min, and cooling torrefied pellets. The obtained Ti-rich V-Ti oxidized pellets have compression strength higher than 1800 N, and TiO2 content of 7.0%, thus can meet the requirement of blast furnace smelting.

A plaster composition for making molds for reproduction by casting is disclosed. Calcium sulfate hemihydrate, potassium sulfate and potassium sodium tartrate are mixed together. The potassium sulfate and potassium sodium tartrate are in a ratio of from about 1:1 to about 10:1. Potassium sodium tartrate is present in an amount of from about 1 to about 10 pounds per ton of dry calcium sulfate hemihydrate, and the total of the potassium sulfate and potassium sodium tartrate is from about 2 to about 35 pounds per ton of calcium sulfate hemihydrate. Methods of making and using molds of this composition are also disclosed.

A drying apparatus includes a hollow main body having an inside defining a water collection zone located at a lower portion thereof, a heat convection zone located above the water collection zone, and a drying zone located above the heat convection zone for drying an article to be dried. Thus, the drying apparatus produces hot air that is formed by a heat convection effect so as to dry the article placed in the drying zone efficiently, thereby enhancing the drying effect of the drying apparatus. In addition, the pivotable covers are pivoted outward to open the drying zone to allow the solar rays directly entering the main body so as to dry the article placed in the drying zone by the solar rays.

A combined laundry machine including a new conceptional pedestal dryer that is capable of performing a drying operation while serving as a base for supporting a washer or a dryer is disclosed. The combined laundry machine includes a washer, a first pedestal dryer including a first container for supporting the washer, the first container having a drying space for drying an object to be dried using hot air supplied from a first hot air supply unit, a clothes dryer, and a second pedestal dryer including a second container for supporting the clothes dryer, the second container having a drying space for drying an object to be dried using hot air supplied from a second hot air supply unit.