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Class Number: 34
Class Title: DRYING AND GAS OR VAPOR CONTACT WITH SOLIDS
Subclass Subclass
Number Title
1 R MATERIAL SUBJECTED TO ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY
1 A .Electric current applied directly through material
1 B .Induction heater
1 C .Magnetic field
1 D .Controls particle movement in fluidized bed
1 E .Electrostatic field
1 F .With suction means
1 G .With vibration means
1 H .Having needle-like electrodes
1 J .With heating or cooling means
1 K .Radio or high-frequency energy
1 L .With additional heating means
1 M .With pressure reducing means
1 N .Plural units or chambers
1 P .Microwave energy
1 Q .Clothes dryer
1 DD ..With rotating drum
1 S .With vibrating means
1 T .With pressure reducing means
1 U .Plural units or chambers
1 V .With treating gas or vapor circulation
1 W .Infrared energy
1 X .With treating gas or vapor circulation
1 Y .Ultraviolet energy
1 Z .With inert gas
1 AA .Having shutter means
1 BB .With cooling
1 CC .Material treated by acoustic energy
2 R FEATHER TREATING
2 A .With agitator
* PROCESSES
3 .Hair on head
4 .With selected radiant energy
5 .With freezing, congealing or thickening
6 .Sheet or web contact preventing by spacer sheets, webs or
strands
7 .Retarding treating action by shielding
8 .With centrifugal force
9 .With contacting of material treated with liquids or solids
9.5 ..Wood treated
10 .With fluid current conveying or suspension of treated material
11 .With treated material recirculation
12 .With operation on treated material other than drying
13 ..With cooling
13.4 ...Wood treated
13.8 ..Wood treated
14 .With mechanical liquid removal
15 .With vacuum and/or gas or vapor pressure varying or control
and/or fluid sealing
16 ..Sheets, webs or strands
16.5 ..Wood treated
17 .Diverse types of drying operationss
18 ..Sheets, webs or strands
19 .Combined
20 .Cooling by gas or vapor contact
21 .Hollow articles and/or forms
22 .Gas or vapor contact with material treated
23 ..Sheets, webs or strands
24 ...With spacing, rolling or coiling
25 ..Material speed, thickness or quantity control
26 ..Temperature control or varying and treatment of gas or vapor
27 ...Vapor removal from gas
28 ...With treated material motion
29 ...Gas or vapor flow directing or control
30 ..Temperature control or varying
31 ...With treated material motion
32 ..Treatment of gas or vapor
33 ..With treated material motion
34 ..Gas or vapor flow directing or control
35 ..Heat conserving
36 ..Special gas or vapor
37 ...Vapors
38 ..Piling or arranging material treated
39 .Radiant or conducted heating
40 ..With evolved gas or vapor treatment
41 ..Sheets, webs or strands
42 .Miscellaneous
* APPARATUS
43 .With automatic control
44 ..Of plural operations
45 ...Of operation sequence
46 ...Of heater, contacting gas humidity and/or gas mixing
47 ..Of gas mixing
48 ..Of heater
49 ...By web or strand tension or breaking
50 ..Of contacting gas humidity
51 ..Of gas or vapor pressure in treating enclosure
52 ..Of rate of treated material motion
53 ..Of time period
54 ..Of flow of gas or vapor treating fluid
55 ..Of starting and/or stopping
56 ..Of treated material feeding and/or discharging
57 R .With fluid current conveying of treated material
57 A ..Vertical gas projection
57 B ..Lateral air blast
57 C ..Inclined grate
57 D ..Mechanical rotating element
57 E ..Rotary gas current
58 .With apparatus using centrifugal force
59 ..Rotary scattering member
60 .For diverse operations on treated material
61 ..With two or more nondrying means
62 ..With treated material cooling means
63 ...Internal rotary drum drier
64 ...Gravity flow-type drier
65 ....With integral cooling chamber or section
66 ...Cooler chamber integral with or similar to drier
67 ...Atmospheric
68 ..Diverse heater types and/or gas or vapor contact types only
69 ..Diverse types of liquid removers onlyy
70 ...With expressing or wringing
71 ...With means to remove liquid from treated material by contact
with solids
72 .With means to treat gas or vapor
73 ..By vapor condensation
74 ...With other gas or vapor treatment
75 ...Direct contact with cooling substance
76 ...With force circulation
77 ....Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
78 ...Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
79 ..Separation of substances from treating or exhaust gases or
vapors
80 ...By absorbent
81 ....In or forming walls, ceiling or floor
82 ...By filter
83 ..Jet devices
84 ...Gas or vapor circulators or flow promotors
85 .With apparatus cleaner and/or escaping material collector
86 .With waste gas heat and/or power conservers
87 .With means to interlock operable elements
88 .With display, inspecting or illuminating means
89 .With indicating or testing means
89.1 .Blotting means combined with means for purpose other than
drying
89.2 ..With ruler
90 .Combined
91 .Convertible
92 .Vacuum
93 .Solar
94 .Sheet or web contact preventing by spacer sheets, webs or
strands
95 .Means to remove liquid from treated material by contact with
solids
95.1 ..Having manipulative means
95.2 ...Attachable to hand (e.g., finger)
95.3 ...For rolling contact
95.4 ...For rocking contact
96 .For hair on head
97 ..With gas or vapor flow for contact
98 ...Plural distributors
99 ...Head conforming distributor
100 ....Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
101 ...With hair supports
102 .Treated material recirculating means
103 .Forms
104 .For hollow article
105 ..With conveying or handling means
106 ..With suspension means and bottom retainer
107 .For slender rigid articles
108 .Rotary drums or receptacles
109 ..Compartmented or pocketed
110 ..External
111 ...With belt or felt drier
112 ...With hopper feed or article securing means
113 ...Plural
114 ....Gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
115 .....Through material or introduction through drum
116 ....With belts or feltss
117 .....With threading, stripping or guiding devices
118 .....Tightener
119 ....Heat exchange fluid supply and/or removal
120 ....Threading, stripping, or guiding devices
121 ....Mounting and/or driving means
122 ...Gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
123 ...With belts or felts
124 ...Heat exchange fluid supply and/or removal
125 ....Removal only
126 ..With additional translating means
127 ..Plural
128 ...One within another (e.g., nested)
129 ...With feed from one to another
130 ..With gas or vapor flow for contact with treated material
131 ...Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
132 ...With heating means
133 R ....With drum or receptacle enclosing housing
133 A .....Combined washer-dryer
133 B .....With material conditioner dispenser
133 C .....With heat retaining means
133 D .....With material tumbling assisting means
133 E .....With stationary trays in rotatable drum
133 F .....With supporting, driving, sealing or bearing means for
drum
133 G .....With specific drum structure
133 H .....With specific housing structure
133 J .....With gas or vapor circulating means
133 K .....With suction means
133 L .....With gas or vapor flow regulating means
133 M .....With conduit to deliver gas or vapor to drum
133 N .....With vertical gas or vapor flow
133 P .....With axial gas or vapor flow
133 Q .....With radial gas or vapor flow
134 ....Heat exchange and/or gas or vapor conducting conduits in
drum or receptacle
135 ...Axial treated material feed type
136 ....Concurrent gas or vapor flow only
137 ....Counter-current gas or vapor flow only
138 ...Gas or vapor conducting conduits in drum or receptacle
139 ...With drum or receptacle enclosing housing
140 ..Vapor exhaust
141 ...Axial treated material feed type
142 ..Axial treated material feed type
143 .Stationary press type
144 ..Plural press units
145 ..Gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated material
146 ..Nonplanar press couples
147 .Spiral treated material path type
148 .Sheet, web or strand
149 ..Sheet elevator type
150 ..Sheet on edge
151 ..For flexible sheets, webs or strands
152 ...Running lengths
153 ....Winding reels
154 ....Plural webs or strands
155 ....With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated
material
156 .....Fluid current supports or guidee
157 .....Suspended loops
158 .....With edge holding means
159 .....With zigzag runs of treated material
160 .....Elongated thin gas or vapor stream
161 ....With zigzag runs of treated material
162 ...Endless conveyers or movable grippers
163 ...Movable treated material holders
164 .Treated material vibrating type
165 .Gravity flow type
166 ..Trough or tube, with axially rotary conveyer or agitator
167 ..Plural gravity path, plural feed and/or discharge
168 ..With gas or vapor flow for contact with treated material
169 ...Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
170 ...Inverted imperforate ducts
171 ...Shelf-to-shelf or zigzag treated material flow
172 ....Dumping shelves or pockets
173 ....Rotary stirrer or shelf
174 ...Foraminous distributors or walls
175 ..With venting means or wall
176 ..With treated material tubes
177 ..With heating tubes
178 ..Shelf-to-shelf or zigzag treated material flow
179 .Stationary receptacle or tube with agitator or conveyer
180 ..Plural units
181 ..With gas or vapor flow for contact with treated material
182 ...Axial treated material feed type
183 ..Axial treated material feed type
184 .Rotary or swinging carrier or rack
185 ..With agitating means or discharging scrapers
186 ..Plural rotary or swinging units
187 ..With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated
material
188 ...Air scoops and/or suspended treated material supports
189 .Elevator type
190 ..Plural
191 .Reversible or pulsating treating gas or vapor flow
192 .Removable shelf or tray type
193 ..Plural nonvertically aligned
194 ..With shelf or tray handling means
195 ..With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated
material
196 ...Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
197 ...With heater
198 ....With liquid heater or vaporizer
199 ...Zigzag treating gas or vapor flow
200 ..With liquid heater or vaporizer
201 .Houses, kilns and containers
202 ..Article inserted type
203 ..With conveyers providing plural or zigzag treated material
paths
204 ...Separable truck or tray
205 ...Plural independent paths for treated material
206 ...Pusher type
207 ...Plural run endless conveyer
208 ...Single run endless, both courses carrying treated material
209 ..Plural treating units or compartments
210 ...With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated
materiall
211 ....Superposed floors or chambers
212 ....Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
213 .....Parallel circulation only
214 ....Parallel circulation only
215 ....With heater
216 .....With conveyer and/or movable treated material support
217 ....With conveyer and/or movable treated material support
218 ..With gas or vapor circulation for contact with treated
material
219 ...Recirculation of treating gas or vapor
220 ....Caused by heater action only
221 ....Caused by jet action
222 ....Movable gas or vapor distributor
223 ....Plural gas or vapor forcing means
224 ....Plural gas or vapor inlets and/or outlets
225 .....In wall, ceiling or floor
226 ...Tortuous gas or vapor path
227 ...Gas or vapor flow toward or from treated material entrance or
exit
228 ....Counter-current to treated material motion only
229 ...Movable gas or vapor distributor
230 ...Plural gas or vapor forcing means
231 ...Deflecting baffle in treating chamber
232 ...Plural gas or vapor inlets and/or outlets
233 ....In wall, ceiling or floor
234 ...Caused by heater only
235 ..With venting means
236 .Treated material handling or conveying
237 .Trays or floors
238 ..Single or plural trays only
239 .Supports
240 ..Rods or rolls
241 .Gas or vapor distributing and applying agitators
242 .Chamber seals
243 R .Miscellaneous
243 C ..Car driers
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DIG 1 Absorbents and adsorbents