Abstract:
A reusable filtration element for a coffee brewer has a microscopic arrangement of holes which permit coffee beverage to pass through while turbidity and sediment causing solids are effectively removed. The holes are preferably from 12 to 60 microns across and provide from 5 to 30 % open area in the filter element. In one preferred embodiment, the holes are circular, arranged in rows such that intersecting rows form an angle of 60.degree., and preferably taper from top to bottom. A preferred filtration element is preferably formed by photoetching stainless steel foil. The filtration element is preferably positioned over a foraminous support.
Abstract:
A filter apparatus (10) for filtering machine tool coolant is disclosed as including a filter assembly (12) including a foraminous non-reticulated metal screen (30) having minute openings and a smooth planar surface for providing improved scrape cleanability and preventing movement of machining chips, particulate and also elongate contaminants from one side of the filter (12) to the other side thereof.
Abstract:
A filter employed for the extraction of beverages is formed of a piece of material having two planar surfaces and a plurality of uniformly distributed openings extending through the piece. A plurality of nipples, equal in number to the number of openings, project from and out of at least one of the planar surfaces and extend for a distance substantially equal to the thickness between the planar surfaces of the piece of material, each nipple being associated with one of the openings through the piece of material, and each opening extends through each nipple. The openings have a shape of a truncated cone, a truncated pyramid, or a truncated tetrahedron, and each opening at the end of each nipple, which is disposed away from the planar surface from which the nipple projects, forms a minor base of the opening shape and each opening at the other planar surface forms a major base of the opening shape.
Abstract:
A double screen or double-rack grate for use in the extra-fine screening of waste waters includes two rows of rods in laterally staggered arrangements with one row positioned behind the other in the direction of flow of waste water to be screened. Each rod of one row has a hydrodynamic cross section defined by a thickened head portion. Such row of rods is positioned downstream of a first row of rods including rods with substantially rotationally symmetrical cross sections.
Abstract:
A drainage system for expressing liquids and fluids from fibrous materials. The system includes a plurality of spaced apart compression elements each retained in juxaposition one to another so as to have a fluid escape slot between each adjacent compression element. Each compression element has a longitudinal passageway therethrough each having an inlet and an outlet which is inwardly tapered toward its outlet. The combination of passageways through each compression element forms a compression conduit whose inlet and outlet generally functionally coincide with the intake and exit, respectively, of the drainage system. The fibrous material to be expressed is introduced into the system's intake under pressure, the fibrous material being compressed as it is forcably urged through each tapered passageway, the expressed fluids exiting the compression conduit radially outwardly through fluid escape slots. The slots, which may be dynamically variable in width, are sized to facilitate fluid escape or discharge, but to contain the fibrous material within the compression conduit. The preferred embodiment of the shape of each taper is a truncated cone whose nominal diameter may also vary along the length of the compression conduit to prevent build-up and cloging of the fibrous material as it passes through the drainage system. This concept of fluid discharge slot variability during operation is also applied to improvements in conventional screw press cage screen bars.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a sieve for a paper pulp scrubber or similar equipment, and to a method for fabricating such a sieve. The sieve is produced by mechanical interfit of bars with support members, the bars carrying notches, the lips of which engage at least one V-shaped lateral groove formed in each support member, while the support members present, on their face receiving the bars, a first set of notches for positioning the bars. The cross-section of the support members at the level of the first notches has the same configuration and dimensions as the cross-section of the second notches and the cross-section of bars at the level of notches has the same configuration as the cross-section of notches formed in the support members. Assembling is made by bending a bar by an angle of about 20-25.degree. for widening a second notch and inserting a support member therein. The bar is then straightened back, so that the support member will be firmly clamped in the notch.
Abstract:
An apparatus for screening pulp comprises a vessel, a cylindrical screen within the vessel, a rotating element moving in the vicinity of the screen at a predetermined speed, an inlet for the unscreened pulp, an outlet for the screened pulp in the vessel. The rotating element has a contour surface, for instance grooves formed of a first bottom plane parallel to the envelope surface, an inclined plane, an upper plane and a side plane, the side plane being essentially perpendicular to the first bottom plane, the inclined plane forming an angle between 5 degrees-60 degrees with the first plane, the upper plane being parallel to the first plane. The rotating element may be a rotor or blade type segments. The rotor is located on the inlet side of the screen but the contour surface of the screen may be the outer or the inner surface of the screen drum. Also the screen has a contour surface which may have different configurations.
Abstract:
A screen plate with grooves is described. The grooves are provided at the bottom with perforations. The direction of the grooves substantially deviates from the flow direction of the pulp to be screened. By different inclination of the side planes of the grooves the turbulance force on the pulp can be varied to meet the different needs of various screening applications.
Abstract:
A coalescing/filtration media composed of yarn-like material held together during normal operation but loosened during backwash to allow "strumming" or vibrating to help loosen media-clogging material, and an armature arrangement by which a cylindrical assembly of yarn segments can be tightened in a helical fashion to perform as filtration/coalescing media or, during backwash, can be loosened to promote the dislodging of clogging material.
Abstract:
A treatment chamber for purification and fractionation of materials suspensions, particularly fibrous suspensions under pressure, and wherein the treatment chamber includes a rotary screening drum provided with pulsation members, the drum also including screening holes located on the back-side of, or immediately behind, the pulsation members as viewed in the direction of drum rotation.