F26B 17/24
Machines or apparatus for drying materials in loose, plastic, or fluidised form
Official title: with movement performed by shooting or throwing the materials {, e.g. after which the materials are subject to impact (F26B17/108 takes precedence)}
F26B17/24 (Machines or apparatus for drying materials in loose, plastic, or fluidised form) appears on 66 US grants and 60 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F26B- Granted patents
- 66
- Published applications
- 60
- Assignees
- 38
- Inventors
- 125
- Latest grant
- 22 Apr 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Dryer system with improved throughput22 Apr 2025US 12,281,846 B2Maag Gala, Inc.
- Combined cooker and dryer device25 May 2021US 11,015,867 B2Hedinn Hf
- Molding flask for a molding machine and a molding process using the molding flask29 Dec 2020US 10,875,086 B2Sintokogio, Ltd.
- Centrifugal pellet dryer12 May 2020US 10,648,734 B2Gala Industries, Inc.
- Dissolved air flotation skimmings separation system and method7 Jan 2020US 10,525,483 B1
- Foamed particle dehydration device and dehydration method, and use thereof18 Nov 2021US 2021/0354346 A1Kaneka Corporation
- Combined cooker and dryer device27 Feb 2020US 2020/0064066 A1Hedinn Hf
- Device for drying granules8 Aug 2019US 2019/0240870 A1Maag Automatik GmbH
- Device for drying granules8 Aug 2019US 2019/0242648 A1Maag Automatik GmbH
- Dryer system with improved throughput7 Mar 2019US 2019/0072328 A1Gala Industries, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pellet dryer27US 4,476,019 AThe Black Clawson Company · 1984
- Forced air circulation for centrifugal pellet dryer24US 6,938,357 B2Carter Day International, Inc. · 2005
- Agitated bed cooling, drying, or heating apparatus22US 6,105,273 ACat-Tec Industries, Inc. · 2000
- Centrifugal pellet dryer for small applications21US 6,237,244 B1Gala Industries, Inc. · 2001
- Deflector for centrifugal pellet dryer screen20US 6,739,457 B2Gala Industries, Inc. · 2004