Abstract: The personal dryer apparatus provides a full personal enclosure. The apparatus can be positioned as chosen, whether next to a shower or bath or apart from. One door of the apparatus may be selectively removed if complete shower-to-apparatus joining is desired, as the apparatus provides opposite entry and exit. The cap design and interior air delivery and air exit designs provide optimal air flow into, through, and out of the apparatus. The spaced apart nozzles provide multi-levels of air delivery. The apparatus provides temperature controlled heated air. The selectively positioned nozzle openings and fan control provide selectively delivered air flow amounts.

Abstract: An apparatus for heating low rank coal having a processor with transverse baffles. Coal is introduced into the top of the processor and passes through the processor by gravity. Heated relatively inert gas is introduced into the processor and flows through the coal, heating the coal and removing moisture from the coal. The temperature of the heated process gas, the size of the coal, the size of the inlet and outlet openings of the processor and the rate of flow of the coal are selected for optimum efficiency.

Abstract: A SPME-fiber cleaning and conditioning apparatus and method having an elongated heating chamber with first and second opposite ends. The first end is capable of insertably receiving a SPME fiber portion of a SPME device, and the second end is a fluid outlet. A heater is provided for heating the chamber and heat-treating an inserted SPME fiber. Contaminants and other particles are agitated, desorbed and purged from the inserted SPME fiber by flowing a fluid through the chamber from the first end to the second end, away from the SPME device. Additionally, turbulence may be produced in the flow at a location adjacent the first end, to enhance agitation, desorption, and purging. A holder may also be provided extending from the first end for supporting the SPME device in a substantially horizontal orientation when the SPME fiber is positioned in the chamber.

Abstract: A drying mold 1 for a pulp molded article has a first mold member 10, a second mold member 20, and a third mold member 30. The first mold member 10 has a drying portion 12 and first passageways 13a and 13b connecting the drying portion 12 to an exterior surface of the first mold member 10. The second mold member 20 has a prescribed heating means and is disposed in contact with the exterior surface of the third mold member 30. The third mold member 30 is disposed in contact with the exterior surface of the first mold member 10. The drying mold 1 is designed to form second passageways 2a and 2b between the first and the third mold members when the first and the third mold members are disposed in contact with each other. The passageways 2a and 2b connect the first passageways 13a and 13b to the outside of the drying mold 1.

Abstract: A garment drying apparatus includes a housing forming a base. A heater is mounted in the base for warming ambient air drawn into the base via a fan through openings formed in the base. A pair of air ducting walls are mounted in the base to direct a portion of the warm air in a first flow path and the remaining portion of the warm air in a second flow path. The flow paths are disposed in substantially diametrically opposed directions within the base. The housing further includes a top wall for covering the base. The top wall includes vent openings aligned with distal ends of the first and second flow paths. Garment support members are mounted on the top surface of the top wall and are pivotable between a first position where support is aligned substantially horizontally in a stowed position on the top wall and a second position where the support is substantially upright relative to the top wall.

Abstract: A portable hand truck mounted drying assembly for the drying of an elevated enclosed space which has been subjected to flooding, the drying assembly having an inlet path for the introduction of ambient air into the enclosed space, the ambient air being preheated in a heat exchanger by moisture laden air removed from the enclosed space, the preheated ambient air being subjected to further heating before introduction into the enclosed space, the portable hand truck mounted unit being positioned within the enclosed space and having a plurality of conduits in communication with the enclosed space for the introduction of dry heated air and the removal of moisture laden air.

Abstract: A portable trailer mounted drying assembly for the drying of an enclosed space which has been subjected to flooding, the drying assembly having an inlet path for the introduction of ambient air into the enclosed space, the ambient air being preheated in a heat exchanger by moisture laden air removed from the enclosed space, the preheated ambient air being subjected to further heating before introduction into the enclosed space, the portable trailer mounted unit being positioned proximate to the enclosed space and having a plurality of conduits in communication with the enclosed space for the introduction of dry heated air and the removal of moisture laden air.

Abstract: A gas fired garment drier is described in which a base is provided with an air conduit including an internal air passageway leading from a bottom end to a top end. A gas burner is positioned adjacent the bottom end of the conduit. A heat exchanger is situated adjacent the gas burner and leads into the air conduit and the air passageway. The heat exchanger includes a convection air duct extending into the air conduit within the air passageway. A garment support is provided adjacent the top end of the air conduit.

Abstract: An improved diazo film processing and developing system has warm-up and steady state heaters along with gravity loading of the film drive rollers and cast aluminum pre-heat and developing chambers. The chambers use resilient or leaf spring seals and a stainless steel aqueous ammonia separation chamber is contiguous and directly connected with the developing chamber for maintaining a temperature differential between the two chambers.

Abstract: A processor for developing diazo film has flat platens disposed within a housing and spaced apart a distance to accommodate the thickness of the film. The housing includes an inlet and an outlet aligned with the space between the platens and means for advancing a film from the inlet and through the space between the platens in a preheat chamber and in a developing chamber and for discharging the developed film. The platen facing the emulsion side of the film is heated in the preheat chamber so that the film is heated to a desired temperature prior to developing. A metered amount of aqueous ammonia is supplied through a lower chamber at the inlet end of the developing chamber wherein the ammonia is separated from the water by reason of the differential temperature and ammonia vapor rises to contact the emulsion side of the film for rapidly developing thereof and the water is drained from the lower chamber.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drying device for coagulating and/or drying a fluid material having significant solids content, such as animal blood, to produce a dried solid product where the device includes generally an upwardly sloped elongate housing of generally semicircular cross section of selected diameter to define a coagulation chamber where the top of a portion of the chamber can be open, heat source means to selectively heat the housing, elongate screw conveyor means disposed within the housing with its longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the housing where the screw conveyor has a shaft with generally continuous helical blade means extending radially therefrom and having an outer diameter approximately equal to the interior diameter of the chamber and where the screw conveyor is adapted for rotation in the chamber to agitate the fluid in a portion of the housing and to convey solid material from a first lower end of the housing, toward a second, higher, end of the housing for e

Abstract: One or more infrared heat lamps provide radiant heat at the top of a laboratory oven structure having a permanently open front and ventilation openings rearwardly thereof, so air will be drawn across a mass of discrete matter constituting a test sample being exposed to radiant heat within the oven. The interior of the oven structure is lined with a heat-resistant material, such as sheet asbestos, and a height-adjustable shelf arrangement within the oven provides for placing the test sample to be dried either closer or farther away from the infrared lamp or lamps. The oven is especially useful for drying samples of asphaltic road-building materials for highway construction or maintenance.