Patent · US Expired

System for drying wet, porous webs

US4364185A · kind A · utility

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6Claims
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Filing dateApr 13, 1981
Grant dateDec 21, 1982
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Expiry dateApr 13, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF26B13/16
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The system comprises a stationary drum with at least one end having a large open area, and a coaxial, rotatable cylinder of larger diameter than the stationary drum mounted for rotation about the stationary drum. The stationary drum has a plurality of circumferentially-separated, longitudinally-extending sets of gas baffles on its outside surface and a plurality of circumferentially-separated, longitudinally-extending sets of inwardly-extending louvers adapted to direct gas in an axial direction inside the stationary drum. First sealing members and circumferentially-separated second sealing members each extend across the annular space between the stationary drum and the rotatable cylinder to divide the annular space into two different pressure zones.

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