Drying equipment
AssigneeSzolnok Megyei Tegla- es Cserepipari Vallalat
InventorsZoltan Onodi, Sandor Mikola, Ferenc Farkas, Istvan Kovacs
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Abstract
Subject of the invention is drying equipment suitable for reducing the moisture content of fragmentary materials, mainly clay. The drying equipment contains drying space developed as a ring of circular, or polygonal base, surrounded with latticed surfaces. The drying space includes a channel developed as a ring of circular, or polygonal base, surrounded with latticed surface, carrying drying medium. The device, feeding the material to be dried is connectible to and turnable around the central shaft. Conveyance of the material takes place with the aid of a rotary worm or scraper device fixed to the central shaft.
Claims6
In drying equipment for reducing the moisture content of fragmentary material, comprising upright latticed walls defining between them a drying space in the form of a ring of circular or polygonal base, means for conveying material to be dried to an upper portion of said drying space, and means for removing dried material from a lower portion of said drying space;
- the improvement comprising conveyor means extending from adjacent the center of said ring radially outwardly of the ring over said drying space for delivering material to be dried from adjacent the center of the ring outwardly to said drying space, and means for rotating said conveying means about the center of the ring thereby to distribute said material in said drying space about said ring.
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