Abstract: A vent apparatus for controlling the flow of heated exhaust air from a clothes dryer has a housing connected to the heated exhaust conduit and a filter within the housing for filtering the exhaust gases. Controls regulate the relative amounts of exhaust gases directed outside the dryer room and through the housing into the dryer room. In one embodiment, the heated dryer air is ducted through the housing and the control is a valve which directs the gas either into the housing or through the exhaust outlet of the housing. The invention channels moist, heated air into a house in desired proportions to conserve heat energy and to humidify the home in the winter.

Abstract: A fluid flow control device including an inlet and a pair of outlets and a diverter valve selectively operable to place the inlet in fluid communication with either the first or second outlet in response to a humidity sensitive control mechanism. The fluid flow control device is particularly adapted for utilization with an automatic clothes dryer in which the inlet is coupled to the exhaust outlet of the dryer and the valve is actuated to open the first outlet, communicating with the outside of the house, for example, when the humidity within the exhaust air exceeds a threshold value, and to open the second outlet, which is in communication with an interior space or with a duct in a hot air circulating system, when the humidity of the dryer exhaust air is below the threshold value.

Abstract: A preheating apparatus for preheating the material, such as scrap, to be charged into steel making equipment with the heat of exhaust gas from the equipment. The apparatus comprises a plurality of preheating units for dischargeably accommodating the charge. The preheating units are connected together in series by ducts to pass the exhaust gas through the units in series and preheat the charge in the units.

Abstract: A heat recycling apparatus operatively connected to a hot air chamber having an exhaust pipe and an intake. The apparatus includes an intake conduit having one end in which there is an opening. A peripheral edge surrounds the opening. The exhaust pipe has an aperture therein through which the one end of the intake conduit extends into the exhaust pipe. The peripheral edge is generally perpendicularly disposed with respect to the longitudinal axis of the exhaust pipe. The opening has an area of between approximately 30% and approximately 65% of the area of the exhaust pipe. A portion of the peripheral edge is contiguous with the wall of the exhaust pipe. The other end of the intake conduit is connected to the hot air chamber.

Abstract: A thermally insulating wall comprises an air-permeable thermally insulating material layer and two panels cooperating therewith to define internal and external interstices, communicating with the space to be insulated. A blower is furthermore provided effective to draw air from the outside and deliver the drawn air into the external interstice through a throttling valve.

Abstract: In an asphalt mixing plant, a portion of the heat used to vaporize water in the process of drying aggregate is recovered by conducting dryer exhaust gases through parallel ducts which extend serially through the aggregate cold feed bins. These parallel ducts are vertically elongated for optimum heat transfer and to avoid impeding aggregated flow. The ducts have vertically extending external fins for greater contact with the aggregate in the bins. They also have horizontally extending internal fins for improved heat transfer between the exhaust gases and the ducts. The ducts are peaked, and conforming protective caps are provided to prevent damage to the ducts during loading of the bins. Water injection is used to initiate condensation of water vapor in the exhaust gases.

Abstract: The gaseous discharge from a dry cleaning machine containing dry cleaning solvents is purified by passage through a gas/gas heat exchanger from which the gaseous flow enters a gas/liquid heat exchanger after having been cooled and partially dehumidified in the gas/gas heat exchanger. An accumulation cooling circuit acts on the gas/liquid heat exchanger to further cool and purify the gaseous flow coming from the gas/liquid heat exchanger, such flow then being returned into the gas/gas heat exchanger, where it is warmed therein by the incoming flow to be purified before returning into the dry cleaning machine.

Abstract: A cooler for combustible material has a first section of cooling grate which is traversed by a cooling air that is fed completely to a burner as air for combustion, and has a further section likewise traversed by cooling air under the effect of at least one ventilator or blower wherein the ventilator is driven directly by a steam turbine, and that with the second section or another further section of the cooler, a steam generator is connected with the turbine.

Abstract: A compact and lightweight rotary heat exchanger for transferring heat from a hot gas flow to a cold gas flow has a low mass matrix in the form of a wheel. The matrix is rotated at high speed into continuous consecutive contact with the respective hot and cold flows. A fixed splitter runs along a diameter of the inner circumference of the matrix in order to segregate the flows as they pass radially across the matrix. In combination with a domestic clothes dryer, the matrix is rotated directly on the drive shaft for the dryer's blower. The matrix wheel rotates between heated dryer exhaust air and incoming room air to preheat the dryer intake air.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying fabric and other materials comprises a vacuum chamber to contain the fabric, a condenser for condensing vapor generated from the fabric in the vaccum chamber, a heat exchanger in the vacuum chamber through which the condensate is passed and a heater for supplying heat to the condensate on its way from the condenser to the heat exchanger. Preferably the fabric is drawn continuously through the chamber through an inlet and an outlet both provided with vacuum seals.

Abstract: The invention provides a device for recovering heat from an appliance which provides an exhaust of warm moist air, comprising an appliance exhaust duct connectable between the exhaust outlet of the appliance and a condensing chamber which is adapted to be supported on an exterior wall of a building, the chamber having means for draining condensate therefrom, and a return duct adapted to allow recovered warm dry air to flow from the condensing chamber into the building.

Abstract: An improved, fuel efficient crop drying system and method is disclosed which makes use of the waste heat from a primary rotary drum dryer in order to predry the crop in a two-pass, indirect heat exchange dryer. The predryer and primary dryer are coupled in a pneumatic (negative pressure) conduit loop so that crop is conveyed in serial order through the dryers. The predryer includes respective, adjacent, two-pass air and crop paths disposed within a tubular shell, and the entire predryer is axially rotated during operation thereof. The ultimate volumetric air discharge from the system is significantly reduced as compared with conventional rotary dryers, and the saturated wet scrubbing which occurs in the predryer displaces a high percentage of particulate matter from the gaseous discharge to the water discharge, thereby reducing atmospheric pollution.

Abstract: A dryer wherein wet clothing placed in a drying chamber is dried by hot air resulting from the heat generated by an electric heater. The dryer comprises a ventilation fan which draws off air streams from the drying chamber and introduces the same amount of air streams as those thus removed into the drying chamber during a drying cycle. An amount of air streams ventilated by the ventilation fan is set at less than 1 m.sup.3 /min per kilowatt of the heat-generating capacity of the electric heater while the electric heater is operated.

Abstract: An energy saving vent is provided for selectively directing hot, moist exhaust air from a clothes dryer either through a downstream vent sleeve to the outdoors, or through a vent port to the indoors. The vent includes four major components principally molded from a synthetic plastic resin, the components being: an open sided housing; a closure panel for closing one open side of the housing; a valve member within the housing for selectively directing air through the housing in alternate paths; and a filter screen assembly for another open side of the housing. The selectively swingable valve carries a pressure relief means adapted to provide for passage therepast of pressurized exhaust gas when the valve is in its position to direct air flow indoors, and in the event that the flow of air indoors is blocked by the filter screen being clogged. The preferred filter screen is a truncated, basket-like, member that is carried on a frame which is removably carried in a slide channel defined on the housing.

Abstract: Heat recovery and replacement air preheating apparatus for use in textile heat treatment machinery is disclosed as including a pair of thermal recovery and storage units wherein each storage unit contains a plurality of thermal mass disks which operate as heat sponges to pick up heat from exhausts as it leaves the dryer and subsequently to put that heat into entering replacement air whereby the cost in elevating the replacement air is greatly reduced. A control valve connected between the two thermal storage units cycles the reverse exhaust and replacement air flows alternately through the thermal storage units in a manner that a substantial amount of the exhaust heat does not reach the ambient environment and the alternating replacement air flow maintains the thermal heat recovery and storage units and associated apparatus cool and clean of lint and the like residuals.

Abstract: There is a disclosed a process and apparatus wherein a solvent-enriched material is introduced into a desolventizer-toaster tower to form a desolventized material which is introduced into a dryer and heated in the absence of air to form a dried material and a vapor steam including solvent which is compressed and passed to the desolventizer-toaster tower to provide all or a portion of the sparger steam requirements therefor.

Abstract: Apparatus for high-efficiency drying of material includes a vacuum drying chamber (40) maintained at a low pressure by a vacuum pump (56). Material to be dried is introduced to the drying chamber through an air lock valve (36) and is transported through the drying chamber by an auger (45). In the preferred embodiment a second interconnected drying chamber (50) includes a further auger (52), and material that has been dried is removed from the drying chamber by another air lock valve (55). Microwave energy sources (30) apply energy to vaporize liquid from the material, and air inlets (72, 73) are provided at the processed ends to introduce air for sweeping generally across the material to the outlet (55) to the vacuum pump. The sweep of cool air causes an aerosol mixture to form, which is removed by the vacuum pump.

Abstract: A process is provided for the separation of a gas and a condensable vapor present in the gas. The vapor-containing gas is contacted in a condensation zone with a heat-exchange fluid to cool the gas whereupon the vapor condenses and is collected as condensate. The condensate is then contacted with the heat-exchanger fluid to cause it to vaporize.

Abstract: A laundry drying system and method in which fresh air flows through a low temperature duct of a preheater, then through a primary heater before entering a laundry drying chamber is described. The air enters into contact with laundry in the chamber, then is exhausted, flowing through a high temperature duct of the preheater. In the preheater, heat pipes transfer heat from the exhaust air in the high temperature duct to the fresh air in the low temperature duct. Thus, heat which would otherwise be discarded in the exhaust air stream is recovered for use in the drying process. The preheater preferably uses heat pipes having a liquid return tube and set in a plate fin heat exchanger. To provide for a cool down cycle, there is a bypass which defeats the operation of the preheater. Lint exhausted by the drying chamber is partly collected by a dry type lint remover between the chamber exhaust and the preheater.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for recovering heat from a finely to coarsely divided hot material, such as carbide crushed on solidification, which contains particles and lumps of varying sizes. The hot material is separated by a classifier into a portion of lumps and a portion of particles, and the lump portion is cooled in a cooling bunker with a stream of cooling gas while the particulate portion is cooled in another cooling unit with a stream of cooling gas. The hot cooling gas resulting from the cooling is fed to a heat exchanger in which the gas is subjected to heat exchange with a working fluid for a turbine coupled to a power generator or the like. The heat exchanger is connected to the cooling bunker and unit by a closed circulating channel.

Abstract: The hot, saturated air is moved from a drying oven chamber through a substantially closed circuit first in a heat extraction path through a series of cooling stages to condense the solvent from the air, and then in a heat collection path in a cross-flow heat exchange relationship through some of the cooling stages to recover some of the heat, and the dried air is moved back into the drying oven. The heat extraction path extends generally in a downward sloped direction toward a solvent storage tank, and the solvent is condensed as it reaches the lower end of the path.

Abstract: An apparatus for the heat treatment of a material passing through a plurality of treatment zones using a heated gaseous treatment medium conducted in a substantially closed circuit through these zones. A heat exchanger is associated with each treatment zone. The heat exchanger defines, in an operative relation with the respective treatment zone a medium discharge path and a medium replacement path which paths are arranged in a heat exchange relationship. The fractional portion of a treatment medium discharged from each treatment zone transfers its heat and energy to the fresh replacement medium. A throttle or flow control in the medium replacement path for each treatment zone permits individualized control of draft and medium turnover according to the different conditions prevailing in each zone. A filter is also provided to prevent impurities in the medium discharge flow path from entering the heat exchanger.

Abstract: Wet plasterboard to be dried is advanced along a path. At an upstream portion of the path, air is heated and directed towards the plasterboard for initial drying of the latter. A portion of the heated air is withdrawn and passed through one section of a heat exchanger whose other section contains water which exchanges heat with the heated air. The heated water is passed through a section of another heat exchanger whose other section contains fresh air which is heated by the heated water. The heated fresh air is directed towards the articles for further drying of the latter at a downstream portion of the path. A portion of the heated fresh air is exhausted and recirculated at the downstream path portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the recovery of heat and/or condensable liquid from a gaseous environment utilizing an open cycle heat pump system. The open cycle heat pump system is employed to alter the temperature of a gas by compression, expansion, heat exchange, and combinations thereof, to condense selected vapors carried in the gaseous environment for removal from the gas. The open cycle heat pump system can also be used to extract the heat from a gas for use as desired.The invention also relates to means for recovering condensable solvent and/or heat from gas streams employed in drying ovens used in processing solvent-laden materials.

Abstract: Fuel and additional material are dried prior to entering the combustion chamber of a thermal power plant using drying chambers having fluidized beds. The heat required for drying is extracted from the hot ashes from the power plant by means of an oxygen-poor gas which circulates through heating chambers containing the ashes and drying chambers containing the fuel in a substantially closed loop. The loop may include a condenser for dehumidification of the circulating gas.

Abstract: The invention resides in an electrical power generation system comprising means for burning solid carbonaceous fuel, such as brown coal, to generate heat energy which is used to convert water to steam, turbine means driven by the said steam for producing electrical energy, and solid carbonaceous fuel drying means, wherein moist fuel is indirectly heated by steam in the drying means in the absence of introduced air or other gases, whereby water vapor substantially free from air or other gases is driven off from the fuel for further use and the dried fuel is passed to the burning means. Preferably, the solid carbonaceous fuel drying means is in the form of a fluidized bed in which the fluidizing medium is water vapor. Further, the fluidized bed may be indirectly heated by saturated steam which transfers heat to the solid carbonaceous fuel and becomes condensed.

Abstract: A process is provided for the efficient conversion of water-containing organic materials such as bark, peat and sludge as fuels into energy, including drying the materials to convert them into fuels and then combusting the fuels in order to recover as much energy as possible at the lowest possible cost; which comprises heating the material in a steam vessel while enveloping the material in steam at superatmospheric pressure, heating the steam by heat exchange with steam at a higher pressure and higher temperature than the steam in the vessel; mechanically dewatering the material; and then drying the material to convert the material into a fuel, converting water driven from the material into steam, and forming excess steam in the dryer, of which steam all or part is recycled and condensed directly on the material in the steam vessel; and then combusting the dry material in finely divided form in a steam boiler, utilizing the high pressure steam that is generated in a turbine, which in turn operates a generator

Abstract: A heat carrier gas is passed through a coke dry cooling plant in direct contact with hot coke therein to form dry cooled coke while simultaneously increasing the temperature of the heat carrier gas. The heat carrier gas is then passed through a coal preheating plant to directly contact and dry and preheat moist coking coal contained therein. The entire system is open, such that a given quantity of the heat carrier gas passes only once through the dry cooling plant and the coal drying and preheating plant. The heat carrier gas may be a flue gas which is passed directly to the coke dry cooling plant without any preliminary pretreatment, and preferably is a flue gas which is supplied directly from a regenerator or recuperator of a coke oven battery. Alternatively, the heat carrier gas may be in the form of a fuel gas which is inert with respect to the hot coke, for example a waste gas or stack gas supplied from an adjacent metallurgical installation, such as a steel mill.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for drying and processing moisture-containing solids comprising organic and/or mineral inorganic components, wherein a maximum utilization of energy is attained by providing for an energetic cross-linkage between the drying and subsequent processing stages. With energetic cross-linkage between a pair of the component units of a system at least some of the energy generated in a first component unit is fed for utilization in a second component unit and at least some of the energy from the second component unit is fed to the first component unit so as to serve as at least a partial energy input for that first component unit.

Abstract: A dryer system, such as is used in a pulverizing mill assembly, includes a hot gas generator which supplies drying gas to the starting point for a gas circulation system. The drying gas passes through the circulation system commingling with particles to be dried. The dried particles are removed whereupon the system gas flow is divided into a return portion and a spent portion for expulsion to ambient. Part of the system return flow is further freed of particles, compressed, and supplied to the hot gas generator as secondary gas. The return gas flow into the generator is regulated to control hot gas temperature in response to generator flow temperature. In addition, hot gas temperature may be controlled in response to system gas temperature by regulation of fresh primary air flow to the generator. Exhaust gases from the hot gas generator are introduced into the system return flow at the circulation starting point to repeat the process.

Abstract: An air inlet construction for a domestic clothes dryer and including a pair of selectively usable air inlet ports. One of the air inlet ports opens outwardly to the area immediately adjacent and exterior of the dryer and the other inlet port opens into the interior of a non-domestically heated portion of the building in which the dryer is disposed, but which portion is subject to being heated by solar energy during the daylight hours.

Abstract: In a laundry system including a washer, a dryer, and a water heater, the improvement of using a heat pipe to recover waste heat, whether it be from the hot air exhaust of the dryer or from the conductive losses from the dryer and to transfer that heat to the feed water of the water heater.

Abstract: In a housing, a clothes dryer wherein dampness in washed clothes is expelled by warm air sweeping therethrough, the air being drawn in at least partly from the environment through openings formed in the housing and heated and, after absorbing the dampness, exhausted at least partly back into the environment, the air drawn in from the environment and exhausted to the environment being conducted through two channels of a heat exchanger with a solid-body regenerator alternatingly contacted in part by the drawn-in air and the exhausted air, the improvement therein including non-hygroscopic storage material received in the regenerator and absorbing thermal energy as loss-free as possible, storing the absorbed thermal energy as loss-free as possible and subsequently surrendering the thermal energy as loss-free as possible, the regenerator being air-permeable in axial direction thereof and being mounted in the drawn-in and exhausted air channels for rotation in a manner that every region of the regenerator is altern

Abstract: A hood for the cylinder drying section of paper making machines and other cylinder drying machines comprising a framework composed of hollow square or rectangular tubes supporting the hood through which heated air is passed for delivery between the cylinders, inlet air being drawn in by a fan and passing over a heat transfer unit and a steam battery separated from the cylinder chamber by an inclined diaphragm wall and an exhaust fan for drawing the moist air from the cylinder chamber through a damper valve controlled duct to the heater chamber for recirculation or exhaust.

Abstract: The present invention entails an improved bulk tobacco curing and drying structure provided with a counter flow heat exchanger for reclaiming heat from exhausted air by transferring the reclaimed heat to inlet fresh air being induced into the structure prior to the inlet air combining with the system of air circulating interiorly within the structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of drying with hot air where the drying is divided into at least two partial processes, in parallel or in series with each other, and the circulation flows of the two partial processes are conditioned to substantially different wet temperature levels, and the spent air in the partial process with higher wet temperature is heat exchanged with the circulation air in the partial process with lower wet temperature, in combination with that the spent air flows from the two partial processes thereafter are mixed with each other and caused to pass a heat exchanger common for the processes in order to preheat the supply air to the partial process with low wet temperature and after the passage through the heat exchanger to partially constitute supply air for the partial process with high wet temperature.

Abstract: A grain drier comprising a plurality of horizontal conveyor belts arranged one above another in staggered relationship so that grain delivered to one end of the upper conveyor belt will drop onto the lower conveyor belt when it gets to the other end of the upper conveyor belt and will then travel along the lower conveyor belt in opposite direction before being discharged. Hot air is supplied by a hot air generator through conduits to a position below and along each of the conveyor belts, passes upwardly through the conveyor belts which are formed of wire mesh and through the grain thereon and is extracted through discharge conduits from above the conveyor belts. The flow rate and temperature of the hot air may be varied. Heat from the extracted air may be recovered and recycled into the hot air generator. Also heat from the dried grain may be recovered and reconducted by means of a blower fan through a conduit onto the incoming fresh grain.

Abstract: A method and ducting system for collection of hot exhaust gases from paint curing oven heaters is disclosed for heat energy recovery in which a large collector duct is extended above the paint curing oven and into which is drawn large volumes of slightly warmed air heated by radiation from the paint curing oven or from secondary warm air sources. The vent stack of each paint curing oven heater is extended into the interior of the collector duct, directing the hot exhaust gases into the center of the large volume air stream in order to cool the gases and allow the collection without the need for insulated collection ducting, thermal expansion joints or flow balancing dampers. The heated air volume is passed through the heat recovery exchanger unit prior to being exhausted to the atmosphere.

Abstract: The drying medium (T) is driven through the adsorbent (5) of the adsorption cell (1) in the same direction as the process medium (P). Initially it is ejected through an auxiliary output (19) and a device (26) for removal of dampness and then is changed-over towards a main output (18) and preferably into the workroom (A).

Abstract: A gas drying system where the heat energy in the exhaust gas and the dried product is recovered to reduce the energy required to dry additional products.

Abstract: The paper web is directly contacted with superheated steam to evaporate the water in the paper web by direct contact and to remove some of the superheat from the steam. The exhaust steam is again superheated and recycled back to the direct contact dryer.The paper web drying system includes a direct contact dryer, a superheater such as a heat exchanger, means for feeding the exhaust steam from the direct contact dryer to the heat exchanger, and means for feeding superheated steam from the heat exchanger back to the direct contact dryer.

Abstract: A system of air pollution control and heat recovery is provided for an arrangement of industrial ovens, especially for drum manufacture.A plurality of paint bake ovens of various capacities, lengths and heat input are provided for multi-stage processing in the manufacture of drums and lids therefor. A supply of high temperature water is provided for multi-stage cleaning and rinsing in the manufacturing operation.The combined exhaust from all of the ovens at 25% LEL is preheated in a heat exchanger and then all of the combustible components are burnt off by passing through the flames of an incinerator grid burner. The effluent from the burner first passes through the heat exchanger to preheat said oven exhaust gases and then through hot water coils to provide all of the necessary hot water for the system. High pressure hot water (275.degree.) is provided in this heat exchange operation.

Abstract: A heating system and method are provided in which a defined area to be heated or to be used for drying crop material may be connected through adjustable ducting to either a primary heat source, such as an oil or gas furnace, or to an alternate heat source comprising a shrouded engine, such as an internal combustion or turbine engine, from which heat may be extracted. A control system allows the engine heat source to be automatically activated in the event of an electric power failure or to be selectively used as the sole source or as a supplementary back up source of heat. The control system further allows the automatic activation of the electric system, should the engine system fail, thus cycling from one mode to the other when either is selected as the primary mode.

Abstract: A system of drying ovens is disclosed with associated means for heat reclamation and air pollution control. The ovens are primarily for drying or baking paint or other coatings on pipes or the like where the emissions are primarily hydrocarbons.In this system of ovens, hydrocarbon fumes are concentrated at the ends of the oven. Solvent laden fumes are, therefore, collected where the concentration is the highest. The exhaust from the oven is located at the central portion and leads to a combustion/incineration chamber where it is exhausted to atmosphere after incineration and a major part of the heat is recovered and recirculated to the oven. In a sequence of ovens, the exhaust from one oven is circulated to the next at a high linear velocity, but low volume (at 25% LEL) and heated to a high temperature (1400.degree. F.) by in-line incineration of the fumes.

Abstract: A process for heat-treating and, in particular, for drying and/or fixing a continuously moved fabric web in a treatment unit comprising at least two treatment zones through which the fabric web successively passes, using a hot gas stream recirculated in the treatment unit, a certain quantity of waste gas being continuously removed from the treatment unit and freed from constituents present in it and some of the waste gas thus treated being returned to the treatment unit after reheating, the rest of the waste gas being released into the atmosphere.

Abstract: A filter unit for use with a clothes dryer for filtering the exhaust and selectively directing the exhaust to the outside or inside of a building. The filter unit supports a filter element in a slanted position so that when installed between the studdings of a building the filter unit does not extend an appreciable amount beyond the surface of the wall and still provides for large capacity filtering. A removable cover makes for easy access to the filter element. The filter housing is made of sheet material which has reinforced walls. An indicator is used for indicating the condition of the filter element.

Abstract: In an apparatus for making wood and/or paper products from raw wood, the exhaust gas from the boiler that is employed for generating steam is used to heat the drying gas that is passed through the dryer. An air-to-air heat exchanger is used to transfer the heat energy from the exhaust gas to the drying gas.

Abstract: An oven for curing coatings on articles removes the volatile components of the coating by a heated circulated atmosphere directed at high velocity at the coated articles and increasing in temperature between the entrance and the exit of the articles from the oven. Prior to their exit from the oven, the coated articles are exposed to infrared radiation in relatively still air to effect the final curing of the coating. The oven enclosure includes an open portion and a ducted portion. The ducted and open portions of the oven enclosure and the heating means are arranged to contribute to the effective use of energy. Within the ducted portion is a removable fan means supported and driven from outside of the oven enclosure. The ducted portion of the oven communicates with an exhaust opening in the oven enclosure having a damper valve that can be automatically controlled to permit exhaust when the level of the volatile coating material components in the oven atmosphere exceeds a preset amount.

Abstract: The disclosed grain harvesting machine has a grain threshing mechanisn, a storage hopper into which grain from the threshing mechanism is transported for temporary storage, and an apparatus for drying the grain while in the storage hopper. The drying apparatus comprises a grain collecting system, a grain drying column, and plenum means for feeding air into the column and system. The grain collecting system is mounted substantially horizontally in the storage hopper proximate to the bottom thereof. It has an outlet and conduit means extending from perimeter portions of the storage hopper to the outlet. The conduit means has inlet openings along its upper portions for entry of grain mechanism by gravity and has grain transport means therewithin for moving grain therethrough to the outlet. The grain drying column is mounted at the outlet of the collecting system and extends upwardly from the outlet. The column has an elevated exit port for discharge of grain therefrom back into the hopper.

Abstract: A laundry dryer of the type having a pair of upstream and downstream side-by-side gas burners is modified by the removal of the upstream burner and replacing the burner with a reheat plenum. The reheat plenum is generally tear-shaped in cross section to provide an inlet portion having a relatively large airflow cross sectional area located laterally adjacent the burner so that the recirculated airflow enters the reheat plenum at a relatively low velocity conducive to settlement of lint therein at a point in the plenum away from high temperature heat exchange relation with the burner. The lower wall of the reheat plenum is angularly inclined and preferably curvilinear in contour and extends above the downstream burner in flame deflecting and heat exchange relation therewith to heat the recirculated air within the reheat plenum.