Downcomer for chemical process tower
CA 2278756 A1 · Owner: 4900 Singleton, L.P. · Inventors: Fan, Leon; Wu, Kuang; Lee, Adam T.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An improved downcomer for vapor liquid contact towers. The downcomer is formed between generally semi-conical walls and the wall of the tower. The downcomer outlet is formed by the lower edge of the generally semi-conical walls and the wall of the tower with the lower edge of the generally semi-conical walls being closer to the wall of the tower at the center of the downcomer outlet than at the opposing end portions of the downcomer outlet so that more liquid flows through the opposing end portions of the downcomer outlet than through the center of the downcomer outlet thereby providing a substantially uniform flow of liquid across the tray adjacent the downcomer.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 27, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 27, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 27, 2020.
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