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Precipitator with weighted release wire

US4473383A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 9, 1983
Grant dateSep 25, 1984
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Expiry dateFeb 9, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB03C3/86
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A precipitator comprising a multiplicity of vertical wires suspended from their top ends and having weights connected to their bottom ends, and means responsive to the weight reduction when a wire fails to release the top ends of the wire to provide for removal of the entire portion of the wire above the wire failure point from the precipitator by gravity.

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