Abstract: A drying apparatus including a booth having a ferris wheel mounted therein, and a blower and heater mounted on the booth. The ferris wheel includes three pairs of rotatably mounted radially extending arms, a support plate pivotally mounted on the distal ends of the arms, adapted to hold a part which is loaded and sprayed with a waterbased clearcoat at a first position, indexed to a position directly below the blower and heater for approximately one minute to be impinged by warm air, then indexed to a third position to continue drying, before returning to the first position to be replaced by another part. The heater is a plurality of ceramic disc heater units in one embodiment and an electric duct heater in an alternate embodiment.

Abstract: A transport system is provided which includes a conveyor having an alternate forwardly and reversely driven rollers. A carrier disposed on the conveyor has a pair of spaced skis which engage the forwardly rotating rollers to move the carrier along the conveyor. A friction belt disposed over a pair of pickup rollers on the carrier engages the reversely rotating rollers on the conveyor to provide a rotational drive for use on the carrier. An alternative embodiment is also disclosed which provides rotational motion on the carrier only when the carrier is moving along the conveyor.