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Arrangement in material drying systems

US4719708A · kind A · utility

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31Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateDec 31, 1985
Grant dateJan 19, 1988
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Expiry dateDec 31, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF26B13/104
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to an arrangement in drying sections intended for drying web material (2) which is arranged for movement through the drying section while supported by a plurality of air streams which impinge on the undersurface of the web and which extend parallel with, or substantially parallel with a plane allotted to the web, each of these air streams being given an exiting velocity and direction, via nozzle-like exit apertures (11, 11a) formed in a blow box (7), such as to maintain the web (2) in a suspended state above the blow box (7). Arranged in that end-part (8) of a blow box through which a flow of supply air (7a) is introduced thereinto is a means (20) operative in reducing and/or eliminating and/or over-compensating the influence of the velocity vector (7a') of the flow of supply air (7a) on the direction in which the air streams exit from the blow box through nozzle-like exit apertures (11,11a) formed therein and located adjacent the end-part (8) of the blow box. The interior of the blow box is divided into two chambers, a first chamber (71) intended for receiving the incoming flow of supply air (7a) and a second chamber (72) intended for receiving an air flow (7…

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