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Number: 422
Name: Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing >
Description: This is a generic class for (1) processes of disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving or sterilizing and (2) apparatus for (a) carrying out chemical reactions, (b) preparing or treating chemical compounds or compositions even though only a physical reaction is discernible, (c) performing an analysis which involves either a chemical reaction or a physical reaction not elsewhere provided, for and (d) carrying out the above processes not elsewhere provided for.


Class Number Class Name No. of Patents
422/50

Analyzer, structured indicator, or manipulative laboratory device

949
422/62

Automatic analytical monitor and control of industrial process

656
422/51

Calorimeter

102
422/52

Chemiluminescent

394
422/53

Corrosion tester

133
422/54

Flame ionization detector

89
422/83

Means for analyzing gas sample

741
422/98

Analysis based on electrical measurement

801
422/84

Breath tester

206
422/85

Based on color change

57
422/94

Combustible gas detector

324
422/95

With thermoelectric detector

126
422/96

Wheatstone bridge

86
422/97

With specific coating on bridge element

88
422/93

Including means dividing sample stream into plural parallel segments having diverse treating means and the analytical result compared or combined

142
422/88

Including means for adsorbing or absorbing gas into or onto liquid or solid media

515
422/89

Gas chromatography

296
422/90

With conductiometric detector

246
422/91

With photometric detector

186
422/92

With volumetric detector

23
422/86

Including means reacting gas with color indicator

241
422/87

Strip indicator

116
422/68.1

Means for analyzing liquid or solid sample

2135
422/81

Automated system with sample fluid pressure transport means

759
422/82

And means segmenting fluid material

289
422/74

Dairy tester

24
422/72

Including centrifuge

562
422/78

Including means for pyrolysis, combustion, or oxidation

308
422/80

And means directly analyzing evolved gas

290
422/79

Biological, chemical, or total oxygen demand (i.e., bod, cod, tod)

75
422/75

Including titrator

91
422/76

Conductiometric type

48
422/77

With integrating or differentiating means

32
422/82.01

Measuring electrical property

711
422/82.03

Ion selective electrode

234
422/82.04

Dissolved gas

79
422/82.02

Resistance or conductivity

475
422/82.05

Measuring optical property by using ultraviolet, infrared, or visible light

1563
422/82.09

Absorbance or transmittance

590
422/82.08

Fluorescence

824
422/82.06

Optode or optrode

254
422/82.07

Fluorescence

344
422/82.11

Waveguides

406
422/82.13

Measuring pressure

53
422/82.12

Measuring temperature

101
422/69

Sorption testing

348
422/70

Liquid chromatography

750
422/71

With radioactive material

81
422/73

With coagulometer for agglutination, clotting, or prothrombin, or for particle (e.g., cell, etc.) counting, or volume or characteristics determination

644
422/99

Miscellaneous laboratory apparatus and elements, per se

1594
422/102

Container

2610
422/104

Holder, support, housing, or hood

1490
422/101

Including means for separating a constituent; e.g., filter, condenser, extractor, etc.

1851
422/100

Pipette or other volumetric fluid transfer means

2516
422/103

Valve or connector structure

765
422/63

Sample mechanical transport means in or for automated analytical system

1462
422/65

Means is conveyor and rack

789
422/66

Means is moving tape or band

234
422/64

Means is turntable (circular)

920
422/67

With specific analytical program control means

852
422/55

Structured visual or optical indicator, per se

954
422/57

Having coated reagent

1400
422/56

Having reagent in absorbent or bibulous substrate

1988
422/58

In holder or container having special form

2339
422/59

Column

189
422/60

Having plural-layered material

256
422/61

Test package or kit

1705
422/44

Blood treating device for transfusible blood

415
422/45

Oxygenator

182
422/47

Bubble or foam producing

69
422/46

Including integral heat-exchange means

174
422/48

Membrane

244
422/919

Burettes; pipettes [b01l 3/02]

33
422/920

Burettes, i.e., for withdrawing and redistributing liquids through different conduits [b01l 3/02b]

17
422/921

Plunger type [b01l 3/02b2]

30
422/930

Drop counters or drop formers [b01l 3/02d]

47
422/931

Interchangeable or disposable dispensing tips [b01l 3/02e]

50
422/932

Cooperating with positive ejection means [b01l 3/02e2]

25
422/933

Means for supplying or disposing of tips, e.g., racks or cassettes [b01l 3/02e4]

18
422/934

Mounted within a receptacle [b01l 3/02f]

21
422/922

Pipettes, i.e., with only one conduit for withdrawing and redistributing liquids [b01l 3/02c]

118
422/923

Plunger pump type [b01l 3/02c3]

51
422/924

Capillary pipettes, i.e., having a very small bore [b01l 3/02c3c]

17
422/926

Details of motor drive means [b01l 3/02c3m]

37
422/925

Having mechanical strokelength setting means, e.g., movable stops [b01l 3/02c3d]

48
422/927

Having several coaxial pistons [b01l 3/02c3p]

15
422/928

Repeating pipettes, i.e. for dispensing multiple doses from a single charge [b01l 3/02c3r]

19
422/929

Supports for pipettes [b01l 3/02c3s]

12
422/129

Chemical reactor

475
422/148

Ammonia synthesizer

125
422/130

Bench scale

186
422/187

Combined

271
422/163

Explosives synthesizer

19
422/139

Fluidized bed

361
422/147

And means mechanically separating and removing particulate bed material from fluid effluent

415
422/145

And means providing flow of particulate matter into or out of reaction chamber

586
422/144

Including means to strip reaction mass from, or to regenerate, the particulate matter (including fluidized bed regenerators, per se)

483
422/143

Including specific wind box or particulate matter support grid

268
422/141

Plural reaction beds

142
422/142

Sequentially arranged

226
422/146

With heat exchange means affecting reaction chamber or reactants located therein

340
422/140

With liquid present

246
422/185

For chemical recovery of chemicals from waste paper making liquor

65
422/184.1

For chemically destroying or disintegrating solid waste, other than burning alone

96
422/159

For radioactive reactant or product

231
422/234

Including external recycle loop

291
422/235

And means heating or cooling loop or reaction mass located therein

147
422/198

Including heat exchanger for reaction chamber or reactants located therein

766
422/208

Apparatus operates at positive pressure

95
422/199

Electrical type

256
422/202

Heat-exchange jacket surrounding reaction chamber

265
422/205

Including baffle or stirring means disposed within jacket or chamber, the baffle means within chamber connected directly to wall thereof

125
422/203

Including fluid-transfer means connecting chamber to heat-exchange jacket

117
422/204

Means associated with jacket providing combustion gas as heat-exchange medium

119
422/200

Indirect heat-exchange tube within reaction chamber with a nonreactant heat-exchange fluid passing therethrough

291
422/201

Tube and shell type

220
422/207

Means injecting internal quench stream into reaction stream downstream of reaction stage

120
422/206

Regenerative heat sink

63
422/224

Including internal mixing or stirring means

394
422/225

Mechanical type stirring means

272
422/226

In positive pressure reactor

59
422/227

Including a draft tube for internal recirculation

83
422/228

Including flow directing baffle attached directly to reaction chamber wall

136
422/229

Longitudinally extending spiral stirring means

96
422/230

Thermosyphon or differential density mixing means; e.g., means internally recycling reaction mass via differential density pumping, etc.

36
422/231

Gas sparger type mixing means submerged in liquid reactant

138
422/209

Including means rotating reaction chamber during use

147
422/210

And means wiping or scraping interior surface of reaction chamber

36
422/236

Including means separating reaction chamber into plural reactant-containing compartments and means moving reactant therebetween

171
422/237

Movably mounted container-type separating means and means moving same

22
422/238

Solid reactant containing perforated or porous container-type separating means

44
422/188

Including plural reaction stages

371
422/189

And means providing discrete sequential reaction stages; e.g., train, etc.

489
422/190

Plural solid, extended surface, fluid contact reaction stages each containing; e.g., inert raschig rings, particulate sorbent, particulate or monolithic catalyst, etc.

496
422/192

At least one reaction stage formed of fixed, annularly shaped bed of contact material and means directing reaction stream therethrough substantially perpendicular to longitudinal axis of bed

129
422/191

Superimposed reaction stages in single reaction chamber

374
422/193

Reaction stages located within single reaction chamber

326
422/194

And means downstream of a stage for internally injecting a reactant into a reaction stream for interreaction in a subsequent stage, or injecting an internal quench stream into reaction stream passing between stages

218
422/195

Means within reaction chamber redistributing reaction stream as it passes between adjacent stages

181
422/196

Including plural parallel reaction stages with each stage in form of a reaction tube

177
422/197

Tubular stages in single reaction chamber

310
422/232

Including solid reactant and means charging solids into, or dischanging solids from, reaction chamber

222
422/233

Having both charge and discharge means along with means conveying solids therebetween located within reaction chamber

105
422/211

Including solid, extended surface, fluid contact reaction means; e.g., inert raschig rings, particulate absorbent, particulate or monolithic catalyst, etc.

840
422/219

And means loading contact material into, or unloading contact material from, reactor or means providing internal contact material reservoir

164
422/217

And means upstream of extended surface, fluid contact means removing particulate impurities from reactant stream

51
422/220

And reactant flow distributor upstream of contact means and within reaction chamber modifying velocity profile of reactant flow

240
422/216

Compact bed of particulate, fluid contact material and means providing gravity flow of material within bed

153
422/218

Fixed annularly shaped bed of contact material and means directing reactant therethrough substantially perpendicular to longitudinal axis of bed

134
422/221

Fixed contact bed type with resilient or differential thermal expansion compensating bed support means

153
422/213

Particulate contact material type and means providing flow of particulate material into or out of reaction chamber with reactants or products

137
422/215

And internal mixing means

36
422/214

Transfer line type reaction chamber

75
422/222

Unitary (i.e., nonparticulate) contact bed, (e.g., monolithic catalyst bed, etc.)

373
422/223

With contact material regenerating means, per se, or combined with reactor

119
422/212

With means removing and recovering product from extended surface contact material

83
422/240

Including specific material of construction

176
422/241

Reactor liner

204
422/162

Inorganic hydrator

28
422/160

Inorganic sulfur acid or anhydride producing type

66
422/161

Acid is final product

63
422/131

Organic polymerization

543
422/132

Closed loop

126
422/133

Generating foamed plastic

197
422/134

Including plural sequential reaction stages

226
422/135

Including reactant agitating means in reaction chamber

333
422/136

And means rotatably mounting reaction chamber

41
422/137

Horizontal reaction chamber with screw or worm agitator

53
422/138

With heat exchanger for reaction chamber or reactants located therein

194
422/150

Pigment or carbon black producer

121
422/158

Vapor phase reaction type

50
422/151

With means injecting quench stream into reaction chamber downstream of reaction site

65
422/152

With particulate product collecting surface and means mechanically removing product therefrom

9
422/153

Moving collecting surface

3
422/154

Rotary collecting surface

3
422/155

Disk or plate

3
422/156

With plural sequential reaction zones or chambers

76
422/157

With movably or removably mounted plug means for converting reactor from (n) to (n+1) reaction stages

4
422/242

Positive pressure type

144
422/239

Reaction chamber includes at least one perforated, porous, or semipermeable wall and is adapted for holding solid reactant

200
422/129.1

Soap making

5
422/164

Solid reactant type (i.e., absence of fluid reactants)

58
422/165

Including ignition means for reactant

81
422/166

Electrically actuated

88
422/167

Including reactor cooling means surrounding reactor

33
422/168

Waste gas purifier

562
422/182

Including means injecting combustion fuel into reaction chamber in direct contact with waste gas

173
422/183

And means mixing combustion fuel with waste gas upstream of reaction site

95
422/169

Including means providing sequential purification stages

371
422/170

Plural chemical reaction stages

310
422/172

And means downstream of a stage for injecting a reactant into waste gas for interreaction in subsequent stage

340
422/171

Solid, extended surface, fluid contact type

765
422/177

Including solid, extended surface, fluid contact reaction means; e.g., inert raschig rings, particulate absorbent, particulate or monolithic catalyst, etc.

1257
422/178

And contact regenerating means or means for cleaning an internal surface of the reaction chamber

174
422/181

Fixed annularly shaped bed of contact material and means directing gas therethrough substantially perpendicular to longitudinal axis of bed

148
422/179

Fixed bed with resilient or differential thermal expansion compensating bed support means

395
422/180

Unitary (i.e., nonparticulate) contact bed (e.g., monolithic catalyst bed, etc.)

1064
422/176

Including waste gas flow distributor upstream of reaction site and within reaction chamber modifying velocity profile of gas

265
422/173

With heat exchanger for reaction chamber or reactants located therein

458
422/174

Electrical type

324
422/175

Regenerative heat sink

114
422/186

With means applying electromagnetic wave energy or corpuscular radiation to reactants for initiating or perfecting chemical reaction

569
422/186.04

Electrostatic field or electrical discharge

468
422/186.21

Arc or spark discharge means

123
422/186.28

With current control means

20
422/186.26

With electrode moving means

25
422/186.27

With current control means

5
422/186.22

With electrode or reaction space heating or cooling means

58
422/186.23

With preparatory or product-treating means

36
422/186.25

With cooling or pressurizing means

17
422/186.24

With nitrogen fixation means

8
422/186.07

Ozonizers

398
422/186.18

Cylindrical electrode

126
422/186.19

With heating or cooling means

84
422/186.15

With current control or special electrical supply means

81
422/186.16

With pulse generating means

50
422/186.13

With electrode moving means

18
422/186.14

With fluent reactant flow control means

60
422/186.2

With heating or cooling means

66
422/186.08

With preparatory or product-treating means

66
422/186.11

With cooling, compression, condensation, or liquefying means

59
422/186.09

With drying means

16
422/186.1

With filtering or particle removal means

59
422/186.12

With subsequent use means

90
422/186.05

Treating surface of solid substrate

185
422/186.06

Surface is metal

43
422/186.29

With rf input means

92
422/186.01

Magnetic

85
422/186.02

Object protection

12
422/186.03

With electrical discharge

64
422/186.3

With ultraviolet radiation generating means

608
422/149

With means simultaneously carrying out conjugated reactions within single reactor

33
422/939

Containers for the purpose of retaining a material to be analyzed [b01l 3/00c]

74
422/944

Made of a flexible material [b01l 3/00c4]

40
422/945

With identification means, e.g., coded [b01l 3/00c4b]

4
422/940

Made of a rigid material [b01l 3/00c2]

66
422/942

For multiple samples, e.g., micro-titration plate [b01l 3/00c2d]

81
422/943

Specially adapted for heating or cooling samples [b01l 3/00c2d2]

13
422/941

With identification means, e.g., coded [b01l 3/00c2b]

14
422/946

With fluid transport, e.g., multi-compartment structure [b01l 3/00c6]

4
422/948

For multiple samples, e.g., multi-well filtration [b01l 3/00c6d]

64
422/947

Using capillary action, including fluid transfer through absorbent matrix [b01l 3/00c6c]

138
422/105

Control element responsive to a sensed operating condition

417
422/107

Control element directly mechanically linked to separate sensor

107
422/114

Control element is a binary responsive valve

82
422/115

Valve diverts flow from a contact zone

70
422/112

Control element is fluid pressure sensitive

286
422/113

Pressure-relief valve (e.g., pop-off valve) or check valve

128
422/108

Control element responds proportionally to a variable signal from a sensor

297
422/110

Controls flow rate of a material to or from a contact zone

425
422/111

Material is an input to contact zone

470
422/109

Controls heat transfer

340
422/106

Responsive to liquid level

172
422/116

Sensed condition is operating time and control is operation sequencer

281
422/907

Corona or glow discharge means

132
422/908

Crucibles [b01l 3/04]

25
422/909

Crystallizing dishes [b01l 3/06]

2
422/900

Decreasing pollution or environmental impact

67
422/310

Elements or adjuncts

189
422/311

Bed support means (e.g., support grid or plate for supporting particulate bed of contact material, etc.)

149
422/312

Tube element containing extended surface contact reaction means (e.g., a tube internally coated or packed with a catalyst, etc.)

85
422/910

Flasks [b01l 3/08]

4
422/935

Fluid transferring glassware [b01l 3/00b]

15
422/937

Joints; seals [b01l 3/00b4]

27
422/938

Stopcocks; valves [b01l 3/00b6]

10
422/936

Tubes; conduits [b01l 3/00b2]

7
422/120

For deodorizing of, or chemical purification of, or generation of, life-sustaining environmental gas

253
422/123

Including means adding material into environmental gas

240
422/124

And mechanical means creating forced draft at addition site

325
422/125

With material-heating means

180
422/126

Material is combusted

101
422/122

Including solid, extended surface, fluid contact reaction means (e.g., raschig rings, particulate or monolithic catalyst, etc.)

324
422/121

With means exposing gas to electromagnetic wave energy or corpuscular radiation

282
422/912

Gas jars or cylinders [b01l 3/12]

5
422/49

Including means facilitating part replacement or repair other than solid, extended surface, fluid contact means

53
422/905

Miscellaneous liquid sterilization means

40
422/904

Nitrogen fixation means

14
422/243

Physical type apparatus

63
422/292

Apparatus for treating solid article or material with fluid chemical

564
422/293

Fluid having simultaneous diverse function

32
422/294

Including flexible or collapsible treating chamber

100
422/295

Including pressure treating chamber (above ambient)

259
422/297

And rack, support or handling means

291
422/298

And vaporizer; e.g., boiler, etc.

99
422/299

Constituting treating chamber

65
422/296

Fluid pressure maintains closure or seal

47
422/300

Including rack, support or handling means

576
422/301

Apparatus closure operates means immersing article or material in liquid chemical

80
422/302

For treating container or covers therefor

142
422/303

Container is inverted

33
422/304

Including endless conveyor

102
422/291

Combined

32
422/245.1

Crystallizer

217
422/250.1

Crucible-free zone refiner

12
422/252

Hydraulic classifier with crystallizer

42
422/253

Including feed compartment for introducing nutrient

50
422/251

Including means separating and conveying crystals to a melting zone

42
422/254

Movable crystallizer or scraping means

69
422/307

Heat treating vessel with heating means

297
422/309

Including comminuting, kneading, or surface-wiping means interior or vessel

67
422/308

Including multiple stages

63
422/305

Including gas generating means

338
422/306

Including means for adding a material to a gas

169
422/244

Including serially disposed vaporizing heating means (sublimer) and solid material deposition means maintained at a temperature lower than said heating means (condenser)

31
422/255

Means separating or dissolving a material constituent

122
422/285

And heating means

45
422/288

Including means removing vapor from treated material

33
422/289

And direct contact heating fluid means within separating or dissolving chamber vessel

9
422/290

And indirect contact heating fluid means in separating or dissolving chamber

11
422/286

Including mechanical comminuting or conveying means

16
422/287

Within treating vessel

19
422/256

Liquid-liquid contact means

194
422/260

Including heating and cooling means

33
422/257

Including pulsator, adjustable plates, or plural inlets; e.g., spraying, etc.

80
422/258

Including rotating chamber or rotating member within chamber; e.g., mixer-settler, etc.

55
422/259

Having rotating member within chamber

64
422/261

Liquid-solid contact means

272
422/265

Buoyant holder

69
422/268

Conveyor support for solid material during contact; e.g., bucket, etc.

38
422/282

Including bypass

68
422/283

Including dip tube for inlet or outlet of fluid solvent

33
422/264

Including means restricting solvent contact to one end of body of solute

159
422/267

Including means to remove solids from a filter

35
422/263

Including monolithic nonporous body of solute

90
422/275

Including parallel perforated members perpendicular to, or parallel to, major axis of container

70
422/274

Including perforated member which is nonlinear or inclined with respect to the major axis of container

47
422/278

Including plural orifice inlet, or deflector adjacent inlet for solvent flow

104
422/279

Having inlet submerged within body of a solid solute

25
422/269

Including rotating member

86
422/273

Member conveys material into and out of container; e.g., screw propeller, etc.

52
422/270

Member is container

29
422/271

Including internal rotating member

23
422/272

Partitions divide container

25
422/284

Internal heater; e.g., steam coil, etc.

13
422/266

Manual or mountable holder; e.g., soap holder, etc.

130
422/281

Means recirculating solvent

80
422/276

Side wall of holder perforated

57
422/277

Perforations of holder form inlet for solvent

100
422/280

Solvent vapor condenser

16
422/262

Sulfur extraction

15
422/906

Plasma or ion generation means

120
422/901

Polymer dissolver

28
422/1

Process disinfecting, preserving, deodorizing, or sterilizing

461
422/4

A gas is substance acted upon

298
422/6

Affecting structure, article, etc., submerged in marine environment

85
422/39

By sudden release of pressure

37
422/5

Deodorizing

438
422/25

Including additional step of preventing damage to sealed container

71
422/7

Maintaining environment nondestructive to metal

348
422/12

Aqueous acid environment (i.e.,ph

294
422/13

Aqueous alkali environment (i.e., ph >> 8.4)

166
422/14

Essentially pure water environment

189
422/19

Using heavy metal or compound thereof

125
422/18

Using inorganic silicon or phosphorus compound

113
422/17

Using organic carboxylic acid or salt thereof

239
422/15

Using organic compound having phosphorus

254
422/16

Using organic nitrogen compound other than ammonium salt

477
422/9

Using gaseous preservative, preservative added to gaseous phase of environment, or maintaining gaseous phase nondestructive

68
422/10

Manipulating gaseous environment for preservative purpose

19
422/11

Steam environment

39
422/8

Using protective article (e.g., antitarnish fabric, etc.)

53
422/3

Process control in response to analysis

185
422/40

Process of storage or protection

291
422/41

Of liquid

106
422/42

By preventing evaporation

37
422/43

Of water

37
422/2

Step of warning or decreasing hazard of process

39
422/26

Using direct contact steam to disinfect or sterilize

367
422/27

And additional disinfecting or sterilizing agent

117
422/22

Using direct contact with electrical or electromagnetic radiation

523
422/23

In atmosphere other than air

153
422/24

Ultraviolet

638
422/28

Using disinfecting or sterilizing substance

1399
422/31

And recovering or reusing the agent

88
422/30

And removing the agent by chemical reaction or sorption

140
422/29

In situ generation of agent other than aldehyde or glycol

274
422/32

Treating bulk material

234
422/36

Using aldehyde

85
422/34

Using alkylene oxide

147
422/35

Using cyanide

16
422/37

Using halogen or halogen-containing compound

478
422/33

With positive pressure or vacuum

281
422/38

Using fluent heat transfer medium other than air

109
422/21

Using microwave energy

208
422/20

Using sonic or ultrasonic energy

122
422/903

Radioactive material apparatus

96
422/127

Shock or sound wave

50
422/128

Including supersonic or ultrasonic energy generation means

126
422/902

Sodium chloride and potassium chloride dissolver

15
422/913

Test tubes [b01l 3/14]

91
422/916

Closing or opening means, e.g., corks, bungs [b01l 3/14c]

113
422/917

With identification means, e.g., coded [b01l3/14c2]

3
422/918

Specially adapted for centrifugation [b01l 3/14d]

167
422/914

Specific test tube, per se [b01l 3/14b]

17
422/915

With identification means, e.g., coded [b01l 3/14b2]

22
422/911

Wash bottles [b01l 3/10]

0
422/119

With indicating, signalling, recording, sampling, or inspection means

310
422/117

With safety feature

115
422/118

Preventing opening of closure of pressurized apparatus at unsafe pressure

16
 
 
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