Discharge apparatus for removing granular filter material from a filter housing and a filter apparatus having same

Patent · Tue Apr 10 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6208478

Revell, A E

A filter apparatus including a housing having a discharge apparatus for removing granular gas treating material from the hopper of the housing. The discharge apparatus includes a baffle plate extending across the hopper between the side walls of the housing which defines a material discharge channel opening into the interior of the hopper through a pair of parallel slots extending along the edges of the baffle plate, a conveying gas inlet aperture in one of the side walls opening into one end of the conveying channel, and a gas treating and conveying gas outlet aperture in the other side wall opening into the other end of the conveying channel of a larger cross-sectional area than the conveying gas inlet aperture to promote progressive aspiration of the treating material from the interior of the hopper commencing at the end of the channel proximate the conveying gas inlet aperture.

• Assignee: American Air Filter Company Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4441898
• OSTI ID: 6208478
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
424000* -- Engineering-- Pollution Control Equipment-- (1980-1989)
BAFFLES
CLEANING
CONTAINERS
CONTROL EQUIPMENT
COVERINGS
DESIGN
EQUIPMENT
FILTERS
FLOW REGULATORS
FLUIDS
GASES
GRANULAR BED FILTERS
GRANULAR MATERIALS
HOPPERS
MATERIALS
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
MECHANICAL FILTERS
REMOVAL