Abstract: Apparatus and process for utilizing solar heat for dehydrating all form of vegetable matter.

Abstract: A dish drying apparatus including a dishholding member, a housing disposed above the dishholding member, a plurality of outlet openings in the face of the housing adjacent to the dishholding member, a plurality of inlet openings in another face of the housing, duct member connecting the outlet openings in the face of the housing adjacent to the dishholding member with the inlet openings in another face of the housing, air transferring mechanism disposed along the length of the duct member, heating mechanism disposed in the duct member for heating air being transferred therethrough, electrical drive mechanism for the air transferring mechanism, activating mechanism for the electrical drive mechanism and the heating mechanism, housing support mechanism in a face other than a face adjacent to the dishholding member.

Abstract: A cylindrically shaped food dehydrator is disclosed including a base member, a plurality of stackable trays and a top member. The base member has a blower for moving air through the trays. The air flow in the trays moves from the circumference of the tray to the center of the tray.

Abstract: A cabinet dehydrator for home preservation of food under relative humidity, pressure, and temperature restraints. Intake air is obtained from the surrounding atmosphere and displaced into the dehydrator over heating elements by a blower. This heated air is ported through a manifold defined by the cabinet walls having a sloping chamber which narrows toward the top of the cabinet to evenly displace the heated air over the tops of removable drying trays. The heated air withdraws moisture from the articles of food placed on the drying trays, and is partially exhausted through exhaust portals, depending upon the relative humidity, temperature, and pressure of the surrounding atmosphere. The remaining heated air is mixed with an amount of surrounding air entering through intake portals to replace the amount exhausted. This mixture of heated air and intake air is then heated and recirculated by the blower until the articles of food are dried.

Abstract: A forced air food drier having a cabinet-like structure with a front door for access to the interior of said cabinet and drawer supports arranged along each side of said cabinet for receiving a plurality of drawers thereon. Each drawer is provided with a reflective bottom member and spaced a small distance thereabove a screen member for supporting the food to be dried thereupon. One end of each drawer is provided with an air passage slot and when the drawers are assembled within the cabinet, the air passage slots are alternated at the sides of the cabinet so that forced hot air from a blower structure and heating structure at the bottom of the cabinet is forced to pass alternately by the bottoms and tops of each respective drawer until exhausted out exhaust vents at the top of the cabinet. Appropriate fan and blower control timers together with heater control switches and timers are provided with the cabinet structure.

Abstract: A drying rack that is adapted to maintain selected articles stationary while a clothes dryer executes a tumble dry cycle. The rack comprises an open latticework basket pivotally mounted on the front door of the dryer by a bracket. The bracket is sized to position the basket within the interior of the drum when the door is closed and to position the basket outside the drum when the door is in the open position. The basket pivots as the door is moved from the open to the closed position so that the open top of the basket always remains uppermost.

Abstract: A dehydrator comprises an enclosure having a door pivotally mounted on a front side thereof to normally close a chamber defined in the enclosure. A tubular manifold is disposed in the chamber and defines an inlet passage therein which communicates with the chamber via a plurality of orifices formed in the manifold. The fan is mounted on the enclosure for pumping air into the inlet passage formed in the manifold and a resistance-type heater is disposed in the passage to heat the air to a predetermined temperature level. The heated air is thus discharged through the orifices, formed in the manifold, to dehydrate foodstuffs disposed on racks removably mounted in the chamber of the enclosure. In carrying forth the method of this invention, the heated air is substantially uniformly circulated in the chamber and about foodstuffs disposed therein and such air is discharged from the chamber at a controlled flow rate while simultaneously maintaining a predetermined back pressure on the air in the chamber.

Abstract: A cabinet dehydrator for long term preservation of food under close control of time temperature and humidity. Intake air is obtained from the surrounding atmospher and displaced into the dehydrator over electrical heating elements by a blower. This heated air is ported upwardly adjacent the shelves and thereafter normally laterally between the shelves. Baffles are manually set to control the amount of hot air displaced across a given shelf. Humidity controls function to regulate the rate at which moisture is caused to be withdrawn from the food being dehydrated.