Apparatus for drying leaf products

An apparatus for drying leaf products substantially comprised of a product supply or loading section, of a product centrifugation and drying section and of a dried product discharging section, operatively serially provided each other, wherein

• the loading section comprises a conveyor belt for continuously supplying an entering product of individual moist leaves, operated by a motor and a hopper, normally closed at the bottom for collecting the product supplied by the conveyor belt and then discharging the collected product on the drying section,
• the centrifugation and drying section, downward the collection hopper of the supply section comprises a continuous conveyor with two parallel chains on which a plurality of centrifugation baskets is mounted, each one rotating about its own axis, said transport chains being provided along a closed loop path defining an onward run and a return run, said transport chains being moved by toothed wheels actuated by a motor, as well as by means for conferring to said centrifugation baskets a fast rotary motion about their own axis such that there is more than one basket centrifuging individual leaves at the same time,
• the discharge section, receiving the dried product of individual leaves from the centrifugation section, and transferring the same at the exit, comprises an elevator conveyor belt operated by a motor.