Conveyors: fluid current – Intake to fluid current conveyor – Combined intake and discharge
Patent
1997-11-07
2000-05-30
Ellis, Christopher P.
Conveyors: fluid current
Intake to fluid current conveyor
Combined intake and discharge
406192, 406183, 406117, 406 28, 406 29, 406 50, 406 83, 406 84, 406 85, 406 93, 406 12, 406 13, 406 14, B41J 200
Patent
active
060684283
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for spacing consecutive capsules of solid material traveling as a capsule train in a pipeline in which the capsules are carried by a fluid flowing through the pipeline includes a separation system interposed between upstream and downstream portions of the pipeline for receiving the train of capsules. The separation system passes consecutively separated capsules within the capsule train to the downstream portion. The separation system is constructed for increasing the spacing between consecutive capsules within the capsule train in the downstream portion of the pipeline after passing through the separation system. The volume of fluid flowing from an outlet location of the separation system is substantially the same as the volume of fluid flowing into an inlet location of the separation system. A method for boosting fluid pressure in the capsule carrying pipeline consecutively spaces capsules within a capsule train as the train approaches a dual lock booster station to permit the booster station to alternately divert the trains into the first and second locks of the booster station.
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Du Hongliu
Nair Satish S.
Ellis Christopher P.
Ridley Richard
The Curators of the University of Missouri
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