F26B 1/005
Preliminary treatment of solid materials or objects to facilitate drying: by means
Official title: {by means of disintegrating, e.g. crushing, shredding, milling the materials to be dried (F26B17/102, F26B17/103 take precedence)}
F26B1/005 (Preliminary treatment of solid materials or objects to facilitate drying: by means) appears on 90 US grants and 94 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F26B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 94
- Assignees
- 77
- Inventors
- 253
- Latest grant
- 30 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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