Dryer for broad articles

US5970626A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Babcock-BSH GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Schmidt · Krefeld, DE
• Karl Paul Maurer · North Branch, US
• Gerhard Lehn · Bad Hersfeld, DE
• Friedrich Bahner · Lengede, DE
• Klaus Hentschel · Rodenbach, DE
• Karl Lang · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 26, 1999
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F26B21/028
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A drier for broad articles such as plasterboard has a conveyor in entraining the plasterboard along a drying path in a transport plane and the nozzle boxes for contacting the plasterboard with the drying air have their orifice surfaces inclined to the plasterboard to achieve uniformity of drying in terms of residual moisture content.