F26B 17/1433
The drying enclosure
Official title: {the drying enclosure, e.g. shaft, having internal members or bodies for guiding, mixing or agitating the material, e.g. imposing a zig-zag movement onto the material (F26B17/1408, F26B17/16 take precedence)}
F26B17/1433 (The drying enclosure) appears on 51 US grants and 34 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F26B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 34
- Assignees
- 39
- Inventors
- 113
- Latest grant
- 7 Nov 2023
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Seed flow chamber for seed conditioning, processing, and drying in a treatment system7 Nov 2023US 11,805,722 B2KSi Conveyor, Inc.
- Device with annular spouted fluidized bed and operating method therefor28 Jun 2022US 11,369,933 B2Sia "Empyrio"
- Thermal processing of bulk solids20 Apr 2021US 10,982,900 B2Solex Thermal Science Inc.
- Seed flow chamber for seed conditioning, processing, and drying in a treatment system4 Aug 2020US 10,729,060 B2KSi Conveyor, Inc.
- Drying of material26 Jun 2018US 10,006,710 B2Sftec Oy
- Hopper with improved process fluid distribution system19 Jun 2025US 2025/0196396 A1
- Bridge reducing mixed-flow grain dryer with cross-flow vacuum cool heat recovery system12 Jun 2025US 2025/0189226 A1
- Mixed Flow Grain Dryer Including Conveyor18 Jul 2024US 2024/0240862 A1
- Device with annular spouted fluidized bed and operating method therefor16 Dec 2021US 2021/0387154 A1Sia "Empyrio"
- Thermal processing of bulk solids21 Jan 2021US 2021/0018266 A1Solex Thermal Science Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Drying method and apparatus21US 4,839,969 APermian Research Corporation · 1989
- Method and apparatus for drying moisture-containing solids particularly domestic refuse and sludge cakes18US 3,946,495 A1976
- Apparatus for removing moisture from honey17US 4,763,572 A1988
- Retort heating apparatus and methods15US 7,264,694 B2Oil-Tech, Inc. · 2007
- Hopper structure, dehumidification plant and method for dehumidifying granular plastic material15US 8,763,273 B2Moretto S.p.A. · 2014