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Seed cotton on a wire mesh belt dryer is dryed and cleaned by a downflow of heated air. The natural separation and falling of trash from the belt is increased by shaking the mass of seed cotton upon the wire mesh belt. The belt is flexed to shake the seed cotton upon it. The mesh belt dryer is flexed by running the belt over “V” shaped intermittent supports. The belt is also shaken by being bumped by gussets on rollers beneath the belt. The air is exhausted from beneath the belt by ducts extending across the chamber. The tops of the ducts are inclined planes so that the trash slides from the top of the duct and does not accumulate on the top.
Also, the mesh belt dryer is secondarily flexed by bumper rollers beneath the mass flexing the belt upward at points where otherwise the belt is sagging downward between the intermittent supports. The bumping of the belt is also restricted to cause the flexing to be within the above parameters.
The mesh belt dryer has top run 54 upon which the mass of treated material 32 is placed.Mesh belt dryer Continue reading →