US 2010/0132213 A1 · CONTACT FLASH DRYER AND METHOD OF CONTACT FLASH DRYING

Abstract

An apparatus and method operations are provided for flash drying paste provided on strips of battery plate grids, wherein the paste is dried through contact with a plurality of heated rollers. The plurality of heated rollers are individually driven and heating of the heated rollers is controlled on an individual basis with a feedback loop. The plurality of heated rollers are positioned so as to move the pasted strip of battery plates through contact with the heated rollers; as a result of this contact with the heated rollers, moisture is removed from the paste, so as to provide a pasted strip that with a sufficiently low moisture content to be divided into battery plate grids.

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Dependent claims

A flash dryer apparatus comprising:

a first plurality of heated rollers rotating in a first direction, the heating and rotation of each of the first plurality of heated rollers being individually controlled;
and
a second plurality of heated rollers rotating in a second direction, the heating and rotation of each of the second plurality of heated rollers being individually controlled,
wherein the first and second pluralities of heated rollers are provided in proximity to one another such that material carrying paste may be carried along a path provided between the first and second pluralities of heated rollers by contact with the first and second pluralities of heated rollers and wherein, the contact of the first and second pluralities of heated rollers removes moisture from the paste carried on the material.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Contact flash dryer and method of contact flash drying

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Abstract

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