Dryer and method for drying harvested vegetables

Details Dryer and method for drying harvested vegetables Dryer and method for drying harvested vegetables

1998-11-20

1999-11-30

Bennett, Henry

Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids

Process

By centrifugal force

34318, 34 58, 99511, 494 33, F26B 1724

Patent

active

059920424

ABSTRACT:
A drying apparatus and method is described wherein baskets, or totes, filled with produce to be dried, are stacked vertically within an inner support frame. The totes are arranged with the open tops facing upwardly. The inner support frame has top and bottom spindles or shafts which are rotationally supported by bearing structures at the top and bottom of the dryer body. Moisture is driven from the enclosed procuce by centrifugal force when the inner support frame/totes are rotated. Produce such as whole head vegetables are preferably arranged in rows in the totes with the cores or cut ends of a row of produce juxtapositioned with, or "butted" against, the cut ends of another row, with the leafy ends generally pointing away from the axis of rotation. In this position, water or moisture tends to flow outwardly from the leafy open ends when the inner frame is rotated during a drying operation.

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