摘要 |
AN APPARATUS FOR DISCHARGING A SUCTION-FEEDING PARTICULATE MATERIAL IN WHICH A PARTICULATE MATERIAL AIR-FED IS WITHDRAWN FROM A NEGATIVE PRESSURE-APPLYING PORTION SUCH AS A CYCLONE(1) OR THE LIKE TO AN ATMOSPHERIC RECEIVER TANK(17), CHARACTERIZED IN THAT A UNDER-FLOW PIPE(15) FOR ACCUMULATING THE PARTICULATE MATERIAL IS VERTICALLY MOUNTED ON THE LOWER END OF THE NEGATIVE PRESSURE-APPLYING PORTION, AND A CYLINDRICAL SEAL MEMBER (16)WHICH FORMS A SEAL SURFACE()21 UPON COMPRESSION THROUGH ACTION OF THE NEGATIVE PRESSURE OF THE NEGATIVE PRESSURE-APPLYING PORTION, THE SEAL SURFACE (21)BEING FORMED OF A MATERIAL WHICH IS SO FLEXIBLE AS TO EXPAND THE SEAL SURFACE BY THE GRAVITY OF THE PARTICULATE MATERIAL ACCUMULATED WITHIN THE UNDER-FLOW PIPE ()15TO DISCHARGE THE PARTICULATE MATERIAL, IS MOUNTED BETWEEN THE LOWER END OF THE UNDER-FLOW PIPE (15)AND THE RECEIVING PORT OF THE ATMOSPHERIC RECEIVER TANK(17).
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