Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – Houses – kilns – and containers
Patent
1988-06-16
1989-12-19
Bennet, Henry A.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
Houses, kilns, and containers
34233, 34236, F26B 1900
Patent
active
048873667
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for drying articles having an adjustably movable drying head includes a housing having a drying chamber defined therein and a conveyor extending therethrough. The conveying means carries articles to be dried on the conveyor through the drying chamber next past adjacently positioned drying plenum devices. The plenum boxes are movably mounted with respect to the housing toward and away from the conveying means to facilitate drying of articles of different shapes and sizes. The drying plenums can be positioned to the sides of the conveyor or above or below or any combination of such positions. The drying plenums include air distribution controls such as air guides in the form of slots adapted to facilitate drying of articles by blowing of the water thereoff primarily and secondarily by evaporation. A conduit being flexible along at least a section thereof extends between the blower and the movably positioned drying heads. A device for retaining articles upon the conveyor essentially thereon is included immediately above the conveyor.
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Bennet Henry A.
Sollecito John
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