Abstract: The present invention features a kit or an attachment apparatus for roasting a small quantity of green coffee beans upon a rotisserie unit. The kit or apparatus is rotationally mounted to an oven or a grill. The kit contains a perforated, cylindrical, hollow drum that has at least one internal fin for stirring the tumbling coffee beans within the hollow drum, as it is caused to rotate. The drum is attachable to a spit of the rotisserie, which is, in turn, attachable to a drive motor. The drive motor and the distal end of the spit are each mounted by attachment brackets to respective, end walls of the oven or grill. The cylinder can receive the green coffee beans through the removal of an end lid of the drum, or through a hatch door located in a mid-portion of the cylindrical drum. A layer of insulation is wrapped about one portion of the spit, and acts as a handle for removing the heated drum of roasted beans from the oven or grill.

Abstract: A method and device for drying a coating on a paper web or equivalent in which the direction of running of the paper web is turned, free of contact, by blowings produced by a turning device and the coating on the paper web is dried free of contact by blowings of drying devices placed at both sides of the paper web. The direction of running of the paper web is turned by drying blowings. The exhaust air of the turning device and drying device, which is placed at the side of the turning device, is removed from direct vicinity of the paper web or equivalent by a common exhaust device. The turning device and drying device are placed under and within a common box construction so that access of the exhaust air into the surrounding space is prevented. The device includes a turning device for turning the running direction of the paper web free of contact and a drying device for contact-free drying of the coating on the paper web.

Abstract: A wide printed paper web is longitudinally separated into at least two partial paper webs after the last printing unit of a printing press and before being dried. The plural partial paper webs are dried in a drying device on separate or the same level. The partial paper webs are dried in a smudge-free manner and are free of longitudinal creases or folds.

Abstract: A process for treating paint sludge in which previously cured paint sludge powder is used as a diluent and mixed with wet paint sludge. The paint powder/sludge mixture is agitated and heated to cure the paint sludge. Processing can occur either continuously or in batch mode, and can be accomplished using a mixer charged with heated gases, or a heated mixer.

Abstract: The gas flow and ignition of gas in a gas fired clothes dryer is controlled by coupling a soft ferrite material radiatively to an igniter element and non-radiatively to a heat sink. The temperature assumed by the ferrite material is above its curie point when the igniter element is hot enough to ignite the gas and below its curie temperature when the igniter is insufficient to ignite the gas. The change in the permeability of the ferrite material moves a magnet which controls the heating of the igniter element and the flow of gas.

Abstract: Air flow in a hollow wall, ceiling, or floor is created by forcing air into or drawing air out of the wall, ceiling, or floor through a hole around a pipe through which the pipe extends from the wall, ceiling, or floor. The apparatus of the invention includes a body that fits around the pipe to position an end against the wall, ceiling, or floor surrounding the pipe and hole and provides for the connection of an air flow hose thereto. The air flow hose provides a source of pressurized air or a source of vacuum to force air into the wall, ceiling, or floor or draw air therefrom.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a high yield apparatus for drying rigid or flexible printed circuit boards. The apparatus comprises a box-like structure which defines a drying tunnel, having an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The apparatus comprises moreover heated air circulating means for circulating heated air inside the tunnel as well as driving means for driving the printed circuit boards along the tunnel. The driving means comprise at least a pair of chains which are arranged parallel to one another and are entrained about a first pinion and a second pinion, having parallel axes, and respectively located near the inlet opening and near the outlet opening. The chains are provided with gripping means for supporting the printed circuit boards along the tunnel. The gripping means are suitable to automatically engage the printed circuit boards near the inlet opening and to automatically release the printed circuit boards near the outlet opening.

Abstract: A moisturizing attachment for use with a conventional hand held hair dryer, the hair dryer having a handle portion and an air emitting nozzle portion. The attachment includes an internally hollowed body having a first end with a first annular lip portion and a second end with a second annular lip portion. The attachment is secured to an end of the hair dryer nozzle portion and a moisturizing insert is arranged within the body to intercept a flow through path of the heated air from the hair dryer. The moisturizing means is pre-immersed in a fluid such as water and is arranged within the attachment body such that, upon activation of the hair dryer, a steady stream of a micro vapor spray mist is issued from the attachment and operates to partially replenish the moisture content within the user's hair without interfering with the desired function of the hair dryer.

Abstract: Drying unit for filled, band-shaped foil hoses with a filling, shaping, cooling, sealing, drying, and cutting station as well as a stacking and final packaging unit, where the drying station is designed as a cold or warm compressed air drying unit. In the area of the drying unit, the roller brushes are working in opposite directions and the band-shaped foil hose is being guided through the roller gap, which makes the roller brushes run in the opposite direction of the transport direction of the foil hose.

Abstract: A wood drying system to eliminate the discharge of liquid kiln water includes a kiln which is heated to dry a batch of wood, a basin to collect the water driven from the wood, and an evaporator in which the collected water is converted into steam. The steam is provided to the kiln to balance the drying and alleviate the splitting, warping, etc. caused by over drying. The steam is ultimately vented harmlessly into the atmosphere to effectively eliminate any discharge of the kiln water as a liquid.

Abstract: Air-blowing nozzles 21 for blowing a hot air are provided in both sides of an electrode sheet 33 for a battery both surfaces of which an electrode compounding agent has been applied to. In each of the air-blowing nozzles 21, a pair of slit-shaped blowholes 65 being extended in the width direction of the electrode sheet 33 are provided on both of the upper and lower sides of the end face part 63. The hot air blown off from a pair of the upper and lower blowholes 65 dries the electrode compounding agent as well as pressurizes a space between the electrode sheet 33 and the end face part 63 to form a pressure room P, and the left and right pressure rooms P hold the electrode sheet 33 to suppress its sway.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dryer device and a drying control system utilizing an infrared sensor that measures the temperature of garments or items being dried in a drying device. The invention provides significant improvement over conventional techniques using temperature sensors, or such sensors in combination with moisture or humidity sensors. Also disclosed are methods for controlling drying temperatures and methods for determining drying cycle completion.

Abstract: A multipurpose dryer which can serve as a household drying center to provide versatile drying function for a wide variety of clothing, fabric articles and other household goods. A cabinet has a heating chamber located at the bottom of the cabinet for generating forced and heated air as drying medium. There is a heated air chamber to receive and distribute heated air to a drying chamber located below the top wall of the cabinet and above the heated air chamber. There are hollow air ducts attached to the side walls of the cabinet and a perforate heat diffusion plate above the heated air chamber for evenly distributing heated air into the drying chamber. A versatile support means is disposed in the drying chamber for hanging clothes, draping large size or bulky goods, or supporting a wire basket for holding delicate drying goods. The clothes and goods are dried without tumbling, thus avoiding fraying or wrinkles.

Abstract: A component drier for drying electronic components which are washed with solvent. The component drier includes a drying chamber, in which a vat having a bottom surface wall allowing passage of air and water is arranged. The vat stores components to be dried. Heated air is introduced into the drying chamber through an air inlet which is positioned above the vat. The air in the drying chamber is forcibly discharged through an air outlet which is positioned below the vat. Thus, a space under the vat has a sufficient negative pressure as compared with a space above the vat so that the air forcibly passes through clearances between the components downwardly from above the vat, thereby removing most part of the solvent moistening the components in the liquid state. A small quantity of liquid which is left on the components is subsequently efficiently vaporized by the heated air.

Abstract: A compact and effective ventilator/drier assembly for heating the room to which it is installed has a case main body 1 divided into a primary zone 3A communicating with an air inlet port 2A, a tertiary zone 3C communicating with an air outlet port 2B and a secondary zone 3B disposed adjacent to the tertiary zone and the primary zone. Moist air A in a room 100 is forced to flow through the air inlet port, the primary zone, the secondary zone, the tertiary zone and the air outlet port and back into the room by a centrifugal type air blower 21 and moisture contained in the room air is adsorbed by a cylindrical rotary type moisture adsorbing device 31 arranged between the secondary zone and the tertiary zone as the air is made to come into contact with a moisture-removing portion 31A of the adsorbing device 31. Dried air B is moved to into the tertiary zone, where it is heated to produce heating air E, which is discharged from the air outlet port into the room.

Abstract: Apparatus for drying articles, particularly people, comprises a cubicle defining a drying space and one or more air impellers arranged to produce an air flow within the drying space having a swirling or vortex motion. Preferably the air is recirculated, and the recirculated air is treated, for example, heated, dried and cleaned.

Abstract: A drier section for drying a continuous web, particularly a paper web produced by a paper manufacturing machine. The drier section may include at least one single-row drier group with a plurality of drier cylinders and a plurality of guide rollers. The continuous web may guided, together with a continuous felt, in a meandering manner through the drier section. The drier section may also include a plurality of additional drier cylinders and a separate felt guided by additional guide rollers for guiding the continuous web around the drier cylinders of the single-row drier group and around the additional drier cylinders. The number of the additional drier cylinders may be less than the number of drier cylinders disposed within the single-row drier group.

Abstract: The invention relates to a steam blower box for the application of steam onto a material web passing by, for example onto a paper web that is to be dewatered and is passing through the press section of a paper-manufacturing machine. The steam blower box extends, transverse to the web travel direction, over the entire web width and comprises a plurality of zone chambers, that are arranged side by side over the web width and are covered by a perforated steam exit panel. Each zone chamber is connected to a steam source via a control valve of its own. The steam exit panel can be removed for purposes of cleaning the zone chambers. Each of the zone chambers comprises a perforated panel insert which is likewise removable.

Abstract: An apparatus for the application of steam onto a paper web has a steam blower box with numerous zone chambers arranged side by side over the web width. The steam blower box is displaceable so that the spacing between it and the web path is adjustable. A steam supply line extends from each zone chamber in the longitudinal direction through the interior of the steam blower box, and from there outward to a support plate. There the clearance between adjacent steam lines is substantially greater than in the interior of the steam blower box. A steam control valve, that is connected via a flexible line to the support plate, is provided for each zone chamber laterally outside the paper-making machine.

Abstract: A drying apparatus for surface treated cans or the like, with at least one chain conveyor which has holders for the cans. A hot air apparatus for the surface drying of the cans has an air conducting device, which directs at least one first stream of hot air at the base regions of the cans and guides at least one other second stream of air to the wall regions of the cans. The second stream of air is directed toward the can wall by at least one air conducting wall that runs obliquely in the direction toward the wall of the cans and the wall forms a wall jet of the second stream of in at least one area along the can wall.