US 12,138,602 B2
Countercurrent contacting devices and method of manufacture
Izak Nieuwoudt, Wichita, KS (US); and Sergio Escobar, Wichita, KS (US)
Assigned to Koch-Glitsch, LP, Wichita, KS (US)
Filed by Koch-Glitsch, LP, Wichita, KS (US)
Filed on Apr. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/133,904.
Application 18/133,904 is a continuation of application No. 16/744,174, filed on Jan. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,654,405.
Application 16/744,174 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/712,995, filed on Dec. 13, 2019, granted, now 11,701,627.
Application 16/712,995 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/281,351, filed on Feb. 21, 2019, granted, now 11,583,827, issued on Feb. 21, 2023.
Application 16/281,351 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/122,470, filed on Sep. 5, 2018, granted, now 11,446,615, issued on Sep. 20, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/555,875, filed on Sep. 8, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0249142 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B01F 25/431 (2022.01); B01F 23/21 (2022.01); B01F 23/232 (2022.01); B01F 23/50 (2022.01); B01F 35/00 (2022.01); B01J 19/32 (2006.01); B01F 25/00 (2022.01); B01F 101/00 (2022.01)
CPC B01F 25/43151 (2022.01) [B01F 23/214 (2022.01); B01F 23/2322 (2022.01); B01F 23/59 (2022.01); B01F 35/165 (2022.01); B01J 19/32 (2013.01); B01F 2025/918 (2022.01); B01F 2101/2204 (2022.01); B01J 2219/32286 (2013.01); B01J 2219/3325 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A contacting device subassembly for the countercurrent contacting of a solid and liquid phase or a liquid and vapor phase, said contacting device subassembly comprising:
a first grid formed of a first set of spaced-apart and parallel-extending deflector blades;
a second grid formed of a second set of spaced-apart and parallel-extending deflector blades that are interleaved with and cross the first set of deflector blades at a preselected angle, the deflector blades in the first and second sets of deflector blades each having opposed ends and side edges,
wherein each of the deflector blades in the first and second sets of deflector blades includes a central crossing segment and end segments that are connected to opposed ends of the central crossing segment by reverse bends,
wherein portions of the deflector blades in the first and second sets of deflector blades are in the shape of isosceles trapezoids;
first transverse strips formed by uncut portions of the side edges of adjacent ones of the deflector blades in the first and second sets of deflector blades and located adjacent each of the opposed ends of the deflector blades in the first and second sets of deflector blades and at the central crossing segment.