Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – With fluid current conveying of treated material
Patent
1997-03-31
1999-07-20
Bennett, Henry
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
With fluid current conveying of treated material
34236, 34401, 34429, F26B 1102
Patent
active
059242175
ABSTRACT:
A liquid removal conveyor system that includes a liquid permeable conveyor belt, a vertically movable agitator and an air suction plenum. The agitator is positioned below and adjacent to the conveyor belt so that, when the agitator moves up and down, it intermittently deflects the conveyor belt. The air suction plenum is positioned below and adjacent to the conveyor belt near the agitator. As the agitator intermittently deflects the conveyor belt, it jostles the material carried on the conveyor belt and the air suction plenum sucks the liquid off the jostled material. The agitator consists of a rotatable shaft and a lobe attached to the shaft. As the shaft rotates, the lobe intermittently deflects the conveyor belt. The agitator lobe may be constructed as a single elongated member that extends across substantially the full width of the conveyor belt, or it may be constructed as two or more discontinuous segments. The lobe may be variously configured as a single lobe projecting from the shaft, a pair of opposing lobes or even a quad of lobes spaced about the perimeter of the shaft.
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Bennett Henry
Rey Industries, Inc.
Wilson Pamela A.
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