A system, a cartridge and a dispensing valve for eliminating a drift or sag in BCDMH output from an inline dispensing valve containing a dispensing cartridge mountable within the inline dispensing valve with the dispensing cartridge containing a batch of water erodible cluster inhibiting BCDMH particles to provide a linear output flow of BCDMH which is responsive to flow of water though a cartridge in the dispensing valve and a method of obtaining a linear output in a dispensing system by increasing the size of particles in a dispensing cartridge in the system.

The invention provides novel slot tube screen material for filtering applications, in particular for separating solid particles from liquids. The slot tube filter screens manufactured according to the invention feature very small slot openings, which are narrowed with respect to a slot opening dimension of conventionally fabricated slot filter tubes. The slot tube construction of the invention comprises a torsion-rotation deformed structure of normally axially orientated parallel support members of the slot tube mantle, which further comprises spiral windings of profile wire around said support members, whereby at each contact crossing a solid weld connection fixes a crossing profile wire to a support member. The plastically twisted slot tube structure displays a helical distortion of the axial support ribs inside the slot tube. As a consequence the filter slot openings between adjoining windings of profile wire are markedly narrowed (versus undeformed slot tube), which offers the possibility of reliably achieving very small filter slot openings of less than 0.020 mm in slot tube filters or screens.

A disclosed screen assembly includes a frame and a tensioned molded polyurethane screen attached to the frame. The frame has a perimeter that is a circle, square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, or other multi-sided polygon, and the screen may have similarly shaped apertures. The frame includes a support grid structure bounded by the perimeter and the screen may either be attached only to the perimeter of the frame, or may be attached to the perimeter of the frame and to one or more locations of the support grid structure. The screen may include uniaxial or biaxial reinforcement members that are integrally molded with the screen, and the tensioned screen may include tension along a direction that is parallel to, or perpendicular to, a direction of the reinforcement members. A disclosed method includes applying tension to a molded polyurethane screen and attaching the tensioned molded polyurethane screen to the frame.

A method of installing a vibratory shaker screen in a vibratory shaker, including placing a first end of the vibratory shaker screen in a retainer, wherein the retainer is a component of the vibratory shaker; pivoting a second end of the vibratory shaker screen toward a screen installation position on the vibratory shaker, deflecting a tab on one of the vibratory shaker screen and the vibratory shaker through contact of the vibratory shaker screen to another retainer of the vibratory shaker, and connecting the vibratory shaker screen to the vibratory shaker, where the tab fixedly connects the vibratory shaker screen to the vibratory shaker.

A method of installing a vibratory shaker screen in a vibratory shaker, including placing a first end of the vibratory shaker screen in a retainer, wherein the retainer is one of attached and a component of the vibratory shaker; pivoting a second end of the vibratory shaker screen toward a screen installation position on the vibratory shaker, deflecting a tab on one of the vibratory shaker screen and the vibratory shaker through contact of the vibratory shaker screen to another retainer of the vibratory shaker, and connecting the vibratory shaker screen to the vibratory shaker, where the tab fixedly connects the vibratory shaker screen to the vibratory shaker.

A novel separation screen, a separation apparatus utilizing the separation screen, and a method for product separation are disclosed herein. The separation apparatus includes a housing defining a separation chamber having an inlet and a plurality of outlet orifices. A separation screen, which is located within the separation chamber, has a plurality of openings having fixed, non-uniform sizes. The separation apparatus also includes an adjustable feed placement device located upstream from the separation screen to direct a feed stream to a selected region of the separation screen to achieve a desired size distribution in each of the product streams.

Embodiments of a shale shaker filtration system of the present invention generally include a filtration component, a positioning component, and a frame, wherein the filtration component includes at least one screen having one or more layers of a sieving material, the positioning component includes one or more first connecting members and one or more second connecting members, and the frame is sub-divided into a plurality of units having openings; and wherein each positioning component is disposed at least partially within a frame unit opening and is reversibly engaged with the frame via the second connecting member(s), and each filtration component is disposed on top of a positioning component and is reversibly engaged therewith via the first connecting member(s). Embodiments of a method of filtering solid materials from a liquid utilizing embodiments of a shale shaker filtration system of the present invention are also provided.

A separation device includes a rotating member that has a mesh having a first surface and a second surface in a front and back relationship and a protruding member provided on the first surface side of the mesh, a supply unit that supplies a material containing a fiber onto the first surface of the mesh, a suction unit that is provided on the second surface side of the mesh and configured to suck a part of the material supplied onto the first surface, and a collection unit that collects the material deposited on the first surface.

This disclosure is generally drawn to systems, devices, apparatuses, and/or methods, related to monitoring a shaker and monitoring a room in which shaker(s) operate. Specifically, the disclosed systems, devices, apparatuses, and/or methods relate to controlling an actuated arm to inspect, remove, replace, repair, clean the shaker and/or screen assemblies based on monitoring the shaker and its screen assemblies, and to adjust or maintain shaker(s) in a defined area such as the room in which shaker(s) operate. While the examples disclosed herein generally describe shakers for separating solids from fluids, the present disclosure contemplates that other separation equipment (e.g., machines for separating solids from other solids) may also be monitored and controlled by the systems and methods described herein.

Multiple wires run parallel to one another. Each of wires is spaced apart from each adjacent wire at a distance less than a width of an encased microchip. Each of the plurality of wires includes a plurality of straight segments in a plane and bent segments that connect two of the plurality of straight segments. For each of the wires, each bent segments includes a first end, a second end, and a curved portion curved away from the plane. The first end is connected to at least one of the straight segments and separated from the second end a distance greater than the width of the encased microchip. The curved portion includes a diameter greater than the width of the encased microchip.