Cotton drying tower for ginneries
OwnerIlan Shohaminventor
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Abstract
A drying tower for seed cotton in ginneries, which tower comprises four walls and a heated air flow from its bottom to its top. Seed cotton is fed at the top and collected at the bottom of the tower. The cotton is transferred over two sets of horizontal conveyors. The conveyors of one set are arranged in superimposed, spaced relationship along one wall, and the conveyors of the other set along an opposite wall of the tower, so that the centerally portions of the conveyors of one set overlap corresponding portions of the other set. The conveyors of the two sets are driven in opposite directions, thus causing the processed cotton to travel along a tortuous path during which it becomes dried.
Claims7
A gin drying system for controlling the moisture content of seed cotton, comprising--
- a four-sided drying tower;
- heated air supplying means provided at a lower section of the tower;
- air exhaust means provided at a higher section of the tower;
- seed cotton feeding means provided at a higher section of the tower;
- seed cotton transferring means provided between said higher and said lower sections of the tower, said transferring means comprising two sets of horizontally extending cotton conveying means having a length less than the distance between two opposite sides of the tower, one of the sets being arranged in superimposed, spaced relationship along one of said sides and the other set being arranged in superimposed, spaced relationship along the other of said sides so that at least a centrally located portion of one of the sets is spaced from and overlaps the corresponding centrally located portions of the other set, and
- means for driving the conveying means in opposite directions so that seed cotton fed to the tower will be conveyed by the conveying means of the two sets while dropping by gravity from one conveying means of one set to a lower conveying means of the other set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.