Control system for an industrial dryer
CA 2023100 A1 · Owner: W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. · Inventors: Hansen, Dennis L.; Norz, Gerald R.; Zagar, Steve J.
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A control system for an industrial dryer used to remove a flammable solvent or vapors from a traveling web of material or the dryer. The dryer consists of a chamber which is preferably a large metallic cylinder through which the web of material moves longitudinally. Seals in the metallic cylinder at the points of entry and exit of the traveling web permit the control system to maintain the desired environment under controlled pressure within the metallic cylinder. The web of material travels successively through one or more zones within the metallic cylinder. At each zone the web of, material is exposed to a pressurized atmosphere which may be at increasingly higher temperatures. The …
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- Filed August 10, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 10, 2010.
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