Abstract:
A hydraulically operated mining shovel comprises a stick which is pivotable in opposite directions by a pair of extendible/retractable double-acting hydraulic cylinders. A high-pressure hydraulic system is provided for operating and controlling the cylinders and comprises a fluid reservoir, a pump for supplying high-pressure hydraulic fluid, and a selector valve located between the pump and the cylinders and between the cylinders and the reservoir. A main filter, removable for cleaning, is located in a fluid return line leading to the reservoir. A self-cleaning filter assembly is connected in each fluid supply/return line connected between the selector valve and a hydraulic cylinder. Each filter assembly comprises a housing in which a pair of cone-shaped fine-mesh filters are connected in parallel with each other and in parallel with an adjustably one-way check valve. In operation, all of the pressurized fluid supplied from the selector valve through a filter assembly to its associated cylinder passes through the pair of filters, wherein any fluid contaminants are trapped, and none flows through the check valve. However, of the low-pressure back-flowing fluid returning from a cylinder through an associated filter assembly to the selector valve, the major portion (about 70 percent) passes through the one-way check valve, and the remainder passes through the pair of filters to prevent collapse of the filters and to back-flush any contaminants trapped therein back into the main filter for subsequent removal from the system.
Abstract:
A filter for blood comprising a pair of members together forming a housing with an inlet and an outlet, an aperture diaphragm between said members across the interior of said housing and dividing said housing into a filter chamber and a drip chamber respectively communicating with said inlet and outlet, means forming a hermetic and sterile seal between said members, and a plurality of filter elements serially disposed within said housing so that blood being filtered therethrough must pass in sequence through said inlet, through all of said filter elements, through the aperture of said diaphragm and then through said outlet. Preferably at least four woven nylon screens are employed as the filter elements in a nylon housing, the filter elements in the direction of flow successively having screen sizes of about 200 .mu., 50 .mu., 20 .mu. and 10 .mu..
Abstract:
A blood filter unit comprising an assembly for supporting a filter cartridge, a filter cartridge, and a housing for the assembly and cartridge. The assembly for supporting the cartridge comprises a permeable cylindrical core with a bottom member and a top cap. The filter media, in the form of a cartridge, is disposed about the periphery of the core and extends between the bottom member and top cap. The core contacts the media only at intermittent areas spaced longitudinally and circumferentially about the core. The core, media and walls of the housing are tapered with respect to each other.
Abstract:
A trap for use with waste water lines for sinks, laundry tubs and the like has a dip portion for retaining liquids to prevent the reverse flow of noxious gases. The lower wall of the dip portion has an opening which is smaller than the interior diameter of the trap and which is adapted to receive a closure plug. A plug for closing the opening is arranged to support a blocking member in the interior of the dip portion of the trap. The blocking member comprises a plurality of flexible fingers which are held in spaced apart relationship on a toroid such that the exterior surfaces of the fingers taper outwardly from the supporting toroid to dimension such that the fingers in combination form a circle which approximates the interior diameter of the trap and the fingers then taper inwardly until the tips of the fingers in combination define a circle of approximately the same dimension as the toroid. The flexible fingers permit the blocking member to be inserted in the trap through the relatively small opening in the dip portion. When in place within the trap, the fingers flex outwardly and the blocking member substantially covers the cross section of the trap in a plane perpendicular to the direction of liquid flow.
Abstract:
Dewatering and homogenizing apparatus comprising a screw thickener at the discharge end provided with a plug forming means actuated by pulling means. At the thickener's discharge end there is also mounted a hood for receiving dewatered pulp and with supply means for homogenizing agent.
Abstract:
An improvement in the positioning and cutting of a comminuting and screening device of the type having a rotary screen formed of co-axial rings with outwardly directed cutters which coact with stationary cutters supported on a flow directing enclosure which is positioned in a flow channel by eccentric locks pivoted on the enclosure and frictionally engaging sides of the flow channel, the stationary cutters having a cutting edge coacting with a cutting edge on the end of the screen cutters and a cutting edge extending between the rings, the space between adjacent rings increasing from upstream to downstream sides of the rings.
Abstract:
Filters for petroleum based liquids and the like are manufactured from heat-treated fabric composed of multicomponent fibers. In general the filter is characterized by light weight, corrosion resistance, compatibility with petroleum based liquids, low cost, dimensional stability and resistance to shock and other mechanical abuse.
Abstract:
A unitary uniformly porous filter structure constructed entirely of shaped sintered powdered metal having increased filtering capacity and useful for filtering molten thermoplastic resin, e.g., as it is forced through a spinnerette head. The filter has a planar base portion having hollow protuberances extending from one major surface thereof with cavities of the protuberances extending to the opposite major surface, providing a drainage path. The filter structure is one piece of metal, i.e., the protuberances and the base have continuity and identity of composition.