De-Aeration System and Method
AssigneeCook and Cook Incorporated d/b/a Royal Welding & Fabricating
InventorsWallace Cook, Federico Robles
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Abstract
The invention relates generally to a de-aeration apparatus and system, and more particularly, to an apparatus and system suitable for de-aerating highly viscous fluids comprising a vacuum chamber, an annular disk for rotating within the chamber, and a fixed baffle covering a portion of the surface of the annular disk and thereby defining a predetermined path by which the fluid to be de-aerated is spread more quickly into a thinner layer on the disk, exposing a greater amount of air/gas bubbles from the fluid in a shorter amount of time and resulting in a higher quality product than conventional de-aeration systems allow.
Claims20
A system for de-aerating material, comprising:
- a vacuum chamber;
- a plate that is configured to rotate and that is positioned within the vacuum chamber;
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- a stationary baffle that covers a portion of the plate and that is separated from the plate by a gap;
- wherein the material to be de-aerated is fed onto the plate as it rotates between the plate and the stationary baffle;
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- wherein the material is directed radially outward through the gap.
A system for de-aerating material, comprising:
- a vacuum chamber;
- a shaft that extends downward into the vacuum chamber and that is configured to rotate;
- a seal that rotatably couples the shaft to the vacuum chamber;
- a plate that is attached to the shaft and that is configured to rotate with the shaft;
- a stationary baffle that is positioned above the plate and that is separated from the plate by a gap;
- wherein the material to be de-aerated is fed onto the plate as it rotates between the plate and the stationary baffle;
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- wherein the material is directed radially outward through the gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.