Abstract: An improvement for drying crushed cane or other bagasse for briquetting or other processes includes a drying unit (1) with a humid bagasse dosing hopper (2) having a screw conveyor feeding inclined screw conveyor (5) and a latter rotary dosing valve (6) discharging into hot air funnel (7) into drying tank (8), bagasse being lifted and exposed to the hot air in front chamber (9) and in final drying chamber (17) by tumbling blades (10) through the action of geared motor (15), almost-dry bagasse in suspension being sucked out by pair of centrifugal blowers (18) dropping it into separator filter (19) and falling into hopper (20), being cooled in open-trough screw conveyors (21) and (22), screw conveyor (22) including screen (23) for separation of powder to be conveyed by screw conveyor (25) to inclined screw conveyor (26) for discharge into feeder hoppers (28) to the burners (32).

Abstract: IMPROVEMENT INTRODUCED IN APPARATUS FOR BRIQUETTING DRY CRUSHED CANE AND OTHER BAGASSES constituted by reception, on upper and lower deflector plates of feed hopper, of dry crushed cane and other bagasses, broken up by rotating shaft bearing long and short rods for capture by collector blades of distributor screw driven by geared electric motor, the same being forced into guide tubes having endless screws of progressively smaller pitch driven by geared electric motor for the purpose of precompaction of said dry crushed cane and other bagasses in precompaction chamber, being compressed by compactor pistons within cylindrical tube having a slightly conical base forming briquette, said pistons being driven through the action of crankshaft supported by block driven by large electric motor, the finished briquettes passing through guide arms being ruptured by curved rods, the development whereof permitting the obtainment of an apparatus having simple operation and compact size permitting conversion of dry crushed c

Abstract: Improvement introduced into the process of drying crushed cane or other bagasses for subsequent briquetting or other processes constituted by drying unit (1) comprising a humid bagasse dosing hopper (2) having a screw conveyor feeding inclined screw conveyor (5) and this latter rotary dosing valve (6) having discharge into hot air funnel (7) into drying tank (8), bagasse being lifted and exposed to the hot air in front chamber (9) and in final drying chamber (17) by tumbling blades (10) through the action of geared motor (15), almost-dry bagasse in suspension being sucked out by pair of centrifugal blowers (18) dropping it into separator filter (19) and falling into hopper (20), being cooled in open-trough screw conveyors (21) and (22), screw conveyor (22) having its bottom part in the form of screen (23) for separation of powder to be conveyed by screw conveyor (25) to inclined screw conveyor (26) for discharge into feeder hoppers (28) of the flames of the burners (mixing chambers) (32), the development wher