Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – Stationary receptacle or tube with agitator or conveyor
Patent
1979-05-29
1980-07-01
Capossela, Ronald C.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
Stationary receptacle or tube with agitator or conveyor
34 86, 34228, 56 122, 34 90, F26B 1722
Patent
active
042099188
ABSTRACT:
The disclosed grain harvesting machine has a grain threshing mechanisn, a storage hopper into which grain from the threshing mechanism is transported for temporary storage, and an apparatus for drying the grain while in the storage hopper. The drying apparatus comprises a grain collecting system, a grain drying column, and plenum means for feeding air into the column and system. The grain collecting system is mounted substantially horizontally in the storage hopper proximate to the bottom thereof. It has an outlet and conduit means extending from perimeter portions of the storage hopper to the outlet. The conduit means has inlet openings along its upper portions for entry of grain mechanism by gravity and has grain transport means therewithin for moving grain therethrough to the outlet. The grain drying column is mounted at the outlet of the collecting system and extends upwardly from the outlet. The column has an elevated exit port for discharge of grain therefrom back into the hopper. Within the column is a grain transport means for elevating grain from the outlet of the collecting system to the exit port of the column. Heated air is forced into the drying column and also into the collecting system; and a plenum is employed for this purpose. The heated air removes moisture from the grain.
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Baker Robert C.
Capossela Ronald C.
Joyce Harold
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