B01D 3/326
Tray supports
Official title: {Tray supports}
B01D3/326 (Tray supports) appears on 57 US grants and 60 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B01D- Granted patents
- 57
- Published applications
- 60
- Assignees
- 30
- Inventors
- 134
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2004 | 1 | 4 |
| 2005 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 7 |
| 2013 | 4 | 7 |
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| 2018 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 8 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vapor-liquid contacting apparatus and process with downcomer at shell6 Jan 2026US 12,515,158 B2Uop LLC
- Method and system for orifice control of valve pressure drop16 Apr 2024US 11,958,001 B2Sulzer Management AG
- Support grid for filling material packing27 Feb 2024US 11,911,739 B2Sgl Carbon SE
- Support beam for supporting internals within a mass transfer column5 Dec 2023US 11,833,457 B2Koch-Glitsch, LP
- Vapor-liquid contacting apparatus and process with downcomer at shell17 Oct 2023US 11,786,855 B2Uop LLC
- Refinery apparatus26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084077 A1LG Chem.Ltd.
- Direct air capture contactor for carbon uptake, and methods of operating the same11 Jan 2024US 2024/0009617 A1Heirloom Carbon Technologies, Inc.
- Vapor-liquid contacting apparatus and process with downcomer at shell28 Dec 2023US 2023/0415083 A1Uop LLC
- Apparatus for a dividing wall column in an isomerization unit6 Apr 2023US 2023/0105091 A1
- Support beam for supporting internals within a mass transfer column30 Mar 2023US 2023/0101452 A1Koch-Glitsch, LP
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vapor-liquid contacting tray with vapor thrust means46US 4,174,363 AUnion Carbide Corporation · 1979
- Apparatus for increasing effective active area44US 5,547,617 AGlitsch, Inc. · 1996
- Stud weldable refractory anchor23US 4,660,343 AKSM Fastening Systems Inc. · 1987
- Contact tray having tray supported downcomers22US 6,736,378 B2Koch-Glitsch, LP · 2004
- Multiple downcomer tray19US 8,136,799 B2Sulzer Chemtech AG · 2012