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7005618 |
Clothes dryer apparatus and method
An electric clothes dryer heater system including a heater element and a controller operationally coupled to the heater is provided. The controller is configured to provide an AC sine wave to a...
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6810602 |
Drier module
A drier module, for use in a drier having a drier motor and one of two heat generation devices, namely gas or electric, is an interchange module of a drier of a gas or electric type and may be...
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6766595 |
Apparatus and method for enhanced solvent recovery from solvent extracted material
Apparatus and method for desolventizing particulate material having a solvent carried thereby wherein an upper indirect heating zone and a lower direct heating zone is provided. Each of the zones...
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6477786 |
Apparatus for drying batches of disks
Liquid is removed from batches of substrates by apparatus and methods for drying substrates that have been wet in an elongated liquid bath. The substrates are moved relative to the bath and an...
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6308437 |
Humidor with environmental control unit
Disclosed is a humidor having means for controlling the humidity therein and having one or more transparent surfaces permitting viewing of the interior thereof. The humidor has means for lateral...
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6280576 |
After-dryer in a paper machine
A method and arrangement for drying a paper to be surface-treated, in particular fine paper, in an after-dryer in a paper machine. The paper web is first dried in a forward dryer section of the...
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6279250 |
Apparatus for enhanced solvent recovery from solvent extracted material
Apparatus and method for desolventizing particulate material having a solvent carried thereby wherein an upper indirect heating zone and a lower direct heating zone is provided. Each of the zones...
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6256903 |
Coating dryer system
The present invention relates to heating systems for drying wet coatings such as printing inks, paint, sealants, etc. applied to a substrate. In particular, the invention relates to a drying system...
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6122840 |
Systems and methods for determining drying time for a clothes dryer
A clothes dryer includes a control system for determining the drying time for a partial load in a clothes dryer. The system includes a humidity sensor, a signal processor, and a fuzzy logic control...
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6085443 |
Apparatus and method for drying relatively small lots of products
An apparatus and method for drying small lots of product, for example ear corn. The method includes simultaneously directing air flow through the product while weighing the product from time to...
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6079121 |
Humidity-modulated dual-setpoint temperature controller
A humidity-modulated dual-setpoint temperature controller is disclosed in which the two setpoints of the temperature controller are adjusted as a function of measured humidity. Parameters other...
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6006440 |
Process and apparatus for drying a slurry
The invention is directed to a process and apparatus for drying a slurry, particularly a sludge, such as sewage sludge, in which a sludge mixture of recycled dried sludge and wet sludge is fed to a...
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5950325 |
Method and apparatus for low temperature continuous drying of temperature sensitive materials (granular agricultural pesticides) at atmospheric pressure using radio frequency energy
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for agitation-free, low temperature drying of fragile, temperature sensitive, granular materials at atmospheric pressure using Radio Frequency...
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5675913 |
Photosensitive material processing apparatus
A photosensitive material processing apparatus is equipped with a drying section in which a photosensitive material processed with a processing solution is conveyed by a plurality of rollers and...
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5655312 |
UV curing/drying apparatus with interlock
An apparatus including both an ultraviolet curing unit and a hot air dryer, either one of which may be operated at a given time. A wall of the dryer has an opening through which the ultraviolet...
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5651193 |
Grain dryer and control system therefor
A grain dryer for providing a controlled drying process through a housing. The housing has a path for grain to be dried such that the grain is dried as the grain moves along the path. The grain...
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5649372 |
Drying cycle controller for controlling drying as a function of humidity and temperature
A drying cycle controller for a garment dryer. The drying cycle is controlled to have a decreasing temperature and humidity profile which avoids the removal of moisture at a rate which will cause...
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5595000 |
No-vent dry kiln
A no-vent dry kiln for drying wood products such as lumber. The kiln has a dehumidification unit to remove excess moisture from the air utilized as the drying media. The dry bulb and wet bulb...
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5570520 |
Clothes dryer dryness detection system
In a clothes dryer, the air exiting the dryer for wet clothes has a high relative humidity compared to the relative humidity when the load is dry. A change in the relative humidity of the air...
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5560124 |
Automatic cycle terminator for dryers
A control device which may take the form of a plug adaptor is able to interrupt the power to a dryer when the load is dry. The only input is the pattern of the power consumption of the dryer, and...
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5456025 |
Apparatus for determining the humidity of exhaust air exiting a yankee dryer hood
An adiabatic saturator receives a sample of exhaust air exiting a yankee dryer hood to determine the humidity of the exhaust air. The humidity is determined by temperature readings of the exhaust...
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5404656 |
Method of controlling drying air temperature of photosensitive material drying apparatus
A method of controlling the temperature of drying air in a photosensitive material drying apparatus for drying the photosensitive material processed by processing solutions. The method comprises...
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5347727 |
Method for controlling combined sensing type clothes dryer
A method for controlling a drying operation of a combined sensing type clothes dryer including a drum, a heat exchanging fan, a motor, a heater, a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor, the...
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5291667 |
Electronic control of clothes dryer
A control system for a clothes dryer is disclosed. A microprocessor monitors the heated inlet air temperature and the exhaust temperature. If the inlet temperature exceeds a high limit value a...
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5187882 |
System for curing concrete articles
A process is disclosed for fast and uniform hydration of uncured concrete products. Pressurized and superheated water is supplied to a manifold supporting a plurality of small diameter orifice...
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5068681 |
Drying air control method in an automatic developing machine and an automatic developing machine employing the method
In an automatic developing machine in which a photographic film is dried by a drying unit after development, a method of controlling the temperature and/or humidity of the film drying air in order...
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4932424 |
Apparatus for conditioning tobacco and like fibrous materials
Apparatus for puffing, drying or moisturizing tobacco has a conveyor defining an elongated channel with an inlet and an outlet for particles of tobacco. The conveyor is vibrated so that the...
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4877042 |
Dynamic hair grooming appliance
A hair grooming device such as a comb, a heated hair styler or a curler having a moisture sensing device and an indicator, thereby allowing the user to control the dryness of the hair while styling...
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4599809 |
Grain dryer system
A computer controlled grain dryer system includes a grain drying bin, a solenoid valved burner, a blower, and an arrangement of grain unloading augers. An air temperature sensor for the drying...
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4543736 |
Conditioning apparatus
Conditioning apparatus for conditioning a leaf vegetable material of a fibrous nature, which apparatus comprises a perforate bed whereby gaseous conditioning medium may be supplied through the...
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4513759 |
Apparatus for expelling moisture from tobacco or the like
Apparatus for expelling moisture from a continuous stream of tobacco which passes through a conditioning zone defined by a hollow rotary drum-shaped dryer has a control unit employing a computer...
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4499614 |
Organic waste bioconverter and method
The bioconverter includes a collecting vessel having a plurality of stirring shafts rotatably mounted therein, each of which is driven by a separate electric motor. Adjacent shafts operate in...
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4481722 |
System for protecting a rotary dryer from thermal stress
A system for drying a wet web of fibrous material carried through a rotary dryer on an air pervious support, without damage to the rotary dryer or the air pervious support in the event of an upset...
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4471424 |
Apparatus and method for conditioning grain
Method and apparatus for conditioning grain with the aid of a digital computer. Preset ventilation and aeration start and stop times are provided with environment sensitive override conditions.
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4412389 |
Method of automatically controlling the drying process in a laundry-drying system, and equipment for performing the method
Method and device of automatically controlling the drying process of a laundry drying system until a given desired degree of dryness is reached, including heating means, a drive for the drying...
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4272894 |
Drying step in a method of producing ceramic articles
A method of drying green ceramic articles with a hot air stream in a drier, wherein the green articles, immediately or soon after entering the drier, are heated to 100° C. while the moisture...
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4168579 |
Drying apparatus incorporating an air-moistening device
There is provided a drying apparatus, which is particularly intended for drying the print on printed paper sheets for example, subsequent to said sheets leaving a printing machine. Means are...
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4022560 |
Drying device
A dryer is disclosed, adapted for use mounted on a plastic mold, extruder or the like. A compact rectangularly shaped drying chamber hold a porous drying basket with free air space surrounding the...
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3940860 |
Method and apparatus for drying a hygroscopic material possessing fibrous structure
A method of, and apparatus for, drying a hygroscopic material possessing a fibrous structure, such as wood and cardboard, which is impinged in a closed drying compartment by a flowing drying...
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3934355 |
Apparatus for storing grains and other vegetable products
Storage of grains and other vegetable products in a large-capacity silo having air-tight walls, bottom and roof and air conditioning means, which is arranged to supply air of controlled moisture...
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3795984 |
METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR MEASURING THE MOISTURE CONTENT IN FIBROUS MATERIAL
A measuring capacitor has a capacitance which varies with moisture content of the material. The capacitor is part of a tuned circuit which is kept in resonance by changing the frequency applied...
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3676937 |
SOLVENT RECLAIMER CONTROLS
Controls for a solvent recovery apparatus regulate the flow of coolant in a condenser coil responsive to the temperature of air circulating in a closed pathway through a tumbler.
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3600817 |
PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING INTERACTION BETWEEN, AND SUBSEQUENT SEPARATION OR GASEOUS AND SOLID OR LIQUID PARTICULATE SUBSTANCES
An apparatus for drying or otherwise processing solid or liquid particulate substances comprises an axially elongated vessel which forms a cylindrical vortex chamber, an inlet duct communicating...
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3578298 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CEMENT KILN CONTROL
A rotary cement kiln control system and method. Burning zone temperature and torque measurements generate a total process error apportioned to fuel and speed control for the kiln. The control...
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3519398 |
AUTOMATIC SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ENVIRONMENT OF INERT ATMOSPHERE BOX
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3451781 |
MANURE DRYER UNIT
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3389707 |
Method and apparatus for expelling moisture from tobacco
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3357436 |
Apparatus for drying tobacco
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3353514 |
Apparatus for applying coatings to articles of glassware
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3279089 |
Mat dryer humidity control system
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