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A specially arranged industrial dust collector with multiple filtering compartments is provided which is efficient, effective, and economical. The special industrial dust collector has a solids-gas separation compartment which is positioned generally alongside and laterally offset from multiple filt

A specially arranged industrial dust collector with multiple filtering compartments is provided which is efficient, effective, and economical. The special industrial dust collector has a solids-gas separation compartment which is positioned generally alongside and laterally offset from multiple filtering compartments. The multiple filtering compartments can contain cartridge filters or other filters. The solids-gas separation compartment can contain a tangential cyclone separator or another type of solids-gas separator.

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A specially arranged industrial dust collector with multiple filtering compartments is provided which is efficient, effective, and economical. The special industrial dust collector has a solids-gas separation compartment which is positioned generally alongside and laterally offset from multiple filt

A specially arranged industrial dust collector with multiple filtering compartments is provided which is efficient, effective, and economical. The special industrial dust collector has a solids-gas separation compartment which is positioned generally alongside and laterally offset from multiple filtering compartments. The multiple filtering compartments can contain cartridge filters or other filters. The solids-gas separation compartment can contain a tangential cyclone separator or another type of solids-gas separator. 60700, Navarro et al.; US-5702450, 19971200, Bisserie; US-6039762, 20000300, McKay; US-6126688, 20001000, McDonnell; US-6146420, 20001100, McKay; US-6241734, 20010600, Scribner et al.; US-6241771, 20010600, Gresser et al. said bin; and said open bottoms of said multiple filtering compartments providing passageways for upward flow of the partially dedusted gas stream from said solids-gas separating compartment upwardly through said multiple filtering compartments. 2. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 1 wherein said solids-gas separator comprises a tangential cyclone positioned between said first and second filtering compartments. 3. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 1 wherein said solids-gas separating compartment is positioned between and separates said first filtering compartment and second filtering compartment, and solids gas-separating compartment is located above and supported by said bin. 4. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 1 including: a motor; and a vacuum pump connected to said motor for drawing influent dusty air through said inlet conduit into said solids-gas separating compartment. 5. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 4 including a sound attenuating device providing a muffler for dampening noise emitted from said motor and pump. 6. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 1 including: a third filtering compartment positioned generally along side and spaced laterally away from said solids-gas separating compartment and in offset relationship thereto, rather than in vertical alignment or completely above said solids-gas separating compartment, said third filtering compartment being spaced laterally away from said first filtering compartment rather than in vertical alignment therewith, said third filtering compartment being spaced laterally from said second filtering compartment rather than in vertical alignment therewith, said third filtering compartment cooperating with said second filtering compartment and said first filtering compartment and simultaneously filtering said partially dedusted gas stream with said second filtering compartment and said fist filtering compartment, said third filtering compartment having at least one third filter for filtering a third portion of said partially dedusted gas stream, at least one third compressed air tank communicating with said third filtering compartment, and at least one third air injector operatively connected to said third compressed air tank for injecting compressed air with sufficient kinetic energy into said third filter in said third filtering compartment to help clean said third filter in said third filtering compartment; and said third filtering compartment being located above and supported by said bin, and said third filtering compartment defining an open bottom for discharging fine particles from said third filtering compartment into said bin. 7. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 1 wherein said solids-gas separator comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of: a barrier wall, an impact plate, a strike plate, and a deflector. 8. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of said filters comprises a tubular filter, bag filter, canister filter, or cartridge filter. 9. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of said filters is selected from the group consisting of: a Hepa filter, a bag filter, a box filter, an envelope filter, a flat filter, and a conical filter. 10. An industrial dust collector, comprising: at least one solids-gas separating compartment comprising a tangential cyclone separator for providing a gross separation to remove large particulates of dust from an influent dusty stream to provide a grossly separated effluent dusty stream having a lower concentration of particulates by weight than said influent dusty stream, said solids-gas separating compartment having at least one inlet conduit for feeding said influent dusty stream to said tangential cyclone separator, and a separator-outlet conduit for discharging said grossly separated effluent dust y stream from said solids-gas separating compartment; filtering compartments comprising a first filtering compartment, a second filtering compartment and a third filtering compartment, all of said filtering compartments being operatively connected to each other for filtering said grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said tangential cyclone separator at the same time; said first filtering compartment having a first filtering chamber containing a set of first filters for filtering smaller particulates of dust from a first portion of the grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said solids-gas separating compartment to provide a first filtered stream having a lower concentration of particulates by weight than said grossly separated effluent dusty stream, said first filters being selected from the group consisting of tubular filters, bag filters, canister filters, and cartridge filters, a set of first compressed air tanks communicating with said first filtering compartment, an array of first air injectors operatively connected to said first compressed air tanks for intermittently injecting pulses of compressed air with sufficient kinetic energy to said set of first filters in said first filtering compartment to help clean said set of first filters in said first filtering compartment, and said first filtering compartment being positioned generally along side and spaced laterally away from said solids-gas separating compartment and in offset relationship thereto rather than in vertical alignment therewith; a first discharge outlet conduit for discharging said first filtered stream from said first filtering compartment; said second filtering compartment containing at least one second filter for filtering smaller particulates of dust from a second portion of the grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said solids-gas separating compartment to provide a second filtered stream having a lower concentration of particulates by weight than said grossly separated effluent dusty stream, at least one second compressed air tank communicating with said second filtering compartment, at least one second air injector operatively connected to said second compressed air tank for intermittently injecting pulses of compressed air with sufficient kinetic energy to said second filter in said second filtering compartment to help clean said second filter in said second filtering compartment, said second filtering compartment being positioned generally along side and spaced laterally away from said solids-gas separating compartment and in offset relationship thereto, and said second filtering compartment being spaced laterally away from said first filtering compartment rather than in vertical alignment therewith; a second discharge outlet conduit for discharging said second filtered stream from said second filtering compartment; said third filtering compartment containing at least one third filter for filtering smaller particulates of dust from a third portion of the grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said solids-gas separating compartment to provide a third filtered stream having a lower concentration of particulates by weight than said grossly separated effluent dusty stream, at least one third compressed air tank communicating with said third filtering compartment, at least one third air injector operatively connected to said third compressed air tank for intermittently injecting pulses of compressed air with sufficient kinetic energy to said third filter in said third filtering compartment to help clean said third filter in said third filtering compartment, said third filtering compartment being positioned generally along side and spaced laterally away from said solids-gas separating compartment and in offset relationship thereto, said third filtering compartment being spaced laterally away from said first filtering compartment, and said third filtering compartment being spaced laterally away from said second filtering c ompartment rather than in vertical alignment therewith; and a third discharge outlet conduit for discharging said third filtered stream from said third filtering compartment. 11. An industrial dust collector, comprising: at least one solids-gas separation compartment comprising at least one solids-gas separator for removing large particulates of dust from a dusty gas stream to provide a partially dedusted stream; said solids-gas separator being selected from the group consisting of a tangential cyclone separator, a barrier wall, an impact plate, a strike plate, and a deflector; multiple filter compartments positioned about said solids-gas separation compartment for filtering a substantial amount of remaining fine particulates of dust from the partially dedusted gas stream, said multiple filter compartments defining open bottoms for upward flow and passage of the partially dedusted stream from said solids-gas separation compartment upwardly through said multiple filter compartments, said multiple filter compartments comprising at least two filter compartments operating together at the same time for concurrently filtering and dedusting a substantial amount of remaining fine particulates of dust from the partially dedusted gas stream; and a single hopper providing a unitary common bin positioned below and supporting said solids-gas separation compartment and said multiple filter compartments, said bin having a collection compartment for receiving and collecting the removed large particulates form said solids-gas separator and the filtered fine particulates of dust from said multiple filter compartments. 12. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 11 wherein said filters are positioned concentrically or eccentrically about said solids-gas separation compartment. 13. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 11 wherein at least some of said filters are positioned in an annular filter compartment. 14. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 11 wherein said industrial dust collector is selected from the group consisting of: an industrial vacuum cleaner, an industrial vacuum loader, and an industrial solids-gas conveyor. 15. An industrial dust collector in accordance with claim 11 wherein at least some of said filters are selected from the group consisting of one or more: tubular filters, canister filters, cartridge filters, Hepa filters, bag filters, box filters, envelope filters, flat filters, conical filters, and combinations thereof. 16. An industrial dust collector, comprising: at least one solids-gas separating compartment comprising a tangential cyclone separator for providing a gross separation to tangentially remove large particulates of dust from an a tangentially flowing influent dusty stream to provide a grossly separated effluent dusty stream having a lower concentration of particulates by weight than said influent dusty stream, said solids-gas separating compartment having at least one inlet conduit for feeding said influent dusty stream to said tangential cyclone separator, and a separator-outlet conduit for discharging said grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said solids-gas separating compartment; concurrently operating multiple filtering compartments in communication with said tangential cyclone separator, said multiple filtering compartments comprising a first filtering compartment, a second filtering compartment and a third filtering compartment, said multiple filtering compartments having open bottoms for receiving said grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said tangential cyclone separator of said solids-gas separating compartment, said multiple filtering compartments cooperating with each other for concurrently filtering said grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said tangential cyclone separator, said multiple filtering compartments filtering together at the same time in the absence of purging and cleaning filters; a hopper comprisin g a bin positioned below and supporting said solids-gas separation compartment, said bin having a collection compartment for receiving and collecting larger particulates of dust from said solids-gas separating compartment and filtered particulates of fine dust from the multiple filtering compartments, and said bin being selected from the group consisting of a stationary bin, a movable bin, a portable bin, and a towable bin; said first filtering compartment having a first filtering chamber containing a set of first filters for filtering smaller particulates of dust from a first portion of the grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said solids-gas separating compartment to provide a first filtered stream having a lower concentration of particulates by weight than said grossly separated effluent dusty stream, said first filters being selected from the group consisting of tubular filters, bag filters, canister filters, and cartridge filters, a set of first compressed air tanks communicating with said first filtering compartment, an array of first air injectors operatively connected to said first compressed air tanks for intermittently injecting pulses of compressed air with sufficient kinetic energy to said set of first filters in said first filtering compartment to help clean said set of first filters in said first filtering compartment, and said first filtering compartment being positioned generally along side and spaced laterally away from said tangential cyclone separator of said solid-gas separating compartment and in offset relationship thereto rather than in vertical alignment therewith; a first discharge outlet conduit for discharging said first filtered stream from said first filtering compartment; a second filtering compartment containing at least one second filter for filtering smaller particulates of dust from a second portion of the grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said solids-gas separating compartment to provide a second filtered stream having a lower concentration of particulates by weight than said grossly separated effluent dusty stream, said second filtering compartment operating and filtering said grossly separated effluent dusty stream concurrently with said first filtering compartment and said second filtering compartment, at least one second compressed air tank communicating with said second filtering compartment, at least one second air injector operatively connected to said second compressed air tank for intermittently injecting pulses of compressed air with sufficient kinetic energy to said second filter in said second filtering compartment to help clean said second filter in said second filtering compartment, said second filtering compartment being positioned generally along side and spaced laterally away from said tangential cyclone separator of said solids-gas separating compartment and in offset relationship thereto, and said second filtering compartment being spaced laterally away from said first filtering compartment rather than in vertical alignment therewith; a second discharge outlet conduit for discharging said second filtered stream from said second filtering compartment; a third filtering compartment containing at least one third filter for filtering smaller particulates of dust from a third portion of the grossly separated effluent dusty stream from said solids-gas separating compartment to provide a third filtered stream having a lower concentration of particulates by weight than said grossly separated effluent dusty stream, said third filtering compartment operating and filtering said grossly separated effluent dusty stream concurrently with said first filtering compartment and said second filtering compartment, at least one third compressed air tank communicating with said third filtering compartment, at least one third air injector operatively connected to said third compressed air tank for intermittently injecting pulses of compressed air with sufficient kinetic en