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Splash bar method and apparatus

US4578227A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 15, 1984
Grant dateMar 25, 1986
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 15, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S261/11
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An improved splash bar method and apparatus are described employing elongate splash bars each having a substantially flat, perforated upper central strip and a pair of substantially flat perforated lower strips connected to the central strip by elongate vertical strips holding the upper and lower strips in parallel, vertically spaced apart relation. Circular perforations are arranged in staggered rows with semicircular holes in alternate rows along the edges of the strips. The upper strip has imperforate strips along its lateral edges.

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