US1297722A - Drier. - Google Patents

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G. D. PARKER.

DRIER.

APPLICATION FiLED MAR. 20. 1911.

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Patented Mar. 1b, 1919.

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State of California,

barren sr GEORGE TD. PARKER, 0F RIVERSIDE, GALIFORNIA.

DRIER.

10 all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, GEORGE D. PARKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverside, in the county of Riverside and have invented certain new aiid useful Improvements in Driers, of whit-h the following is a specification.

To better present fruit, particularly oranges, to the trade, and to remove the aci cu ihiilated dust and foreign matter from the practlce to skin thereof, it has become the wash the fruit, and in order to expedite the handling of the washed fruit the drying of the same is necessary.

The present invention relates to a drying apparatus particularly designed for the drying of oranges, which is simple in construction, thereby enabling the same to be manufactured at little cost; is capable of operation at little cost, thereby enabling the same to treat fruit at very small cost, and by the en'iploynient of which the high speed blower apparatus is dispensed with and relatively slow moving means, capable of displacing a great volume of air, is employed. and which is capable of being operated by the application of little power.

To more fully comprehend the invention, reference is directed to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a broken plan view of the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Fig. is a side elevation.

Fig. 3 is .a detail of one of the conveyor rollers and supporting track therefor.

Referring more particularly to the several views of the drawings, wherein like cl'iararters of reference designate correspom ing parts.-1 indicates the drier housing comprising the respective upwardly inclined portions 2 and the horizontal portion 2, the portionsbeing connected at adjacent ends. the lower or feed end A of the inclined portion connects with a suitable conveying means 3 leading from the washer, not shown, I

and the discharge end B of the horizontal ortion 2 connects with the discharge chute leading to any suitable point in the packing house. The lower end of the portion 2 rests preferably on the base 5 and the horizontal portion 2 is preferably supported by members 7. Secured to the Side member 8 of the housing are the upper and lower supporting tracks 9, and at the opposite en ds of the portions 2 and 2 of said housing are transversely disposed rotatable shafts l0 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1939.,

and 11 carrying at their opposite ends suitable sprockets 12 over which the conveyor chains 13 pass. Certain pf the links of the conveyor chains are provided with spindles 14L wluch rotatably support the conveyer rolls 15 rotating on the upper surface of the tracks 9.

Thus it will be observed that the fruit as conveyed through the drier housing is roveyers will be operated at the same speed and in the same direction. The conveyers are operated in the direction of the arrows by power, supplied from any suitable source, not shown, to the band wheel 1'? on one of the shafts 11. i

The bottom of the drier housing is open, as in the drawings, and closing the top thereof are a plurality of hoods or covers 18 and 18, each having a roof portion 19 downwardly inclined toward the feed end of the apparatus and the vertical side walls20 and rear wall 21. Disposedlongitudinally above the horizontal portion 2 of the housing is a shaft 21 rotating in bearings 22 and extending centrally through the air inlet openings in the rear walls 20 of the hoods 18. Vithin the opening 23 are located the fans .24 mounted on a shaft 21', adapted when rotated to draw air inwardly through the openings in the rear walls of the respective hoods and force the same in the direction of the arrows onto the rotating fruit as conveyled through the drier.

'llhe hood 1% is formed in its side walls 20 with the openings 25 in which are mounted the fans 26, carried by a transverse shaft 27 rotatablc'in bearings 28, the fans being of such a type as to draw air inwardly into the hood and force the same downwardly onto the washed fruit. as conveyed when said shaft is rotated in the direction of the ar- I'OY.

It will be apparent that the fruit as received from the washer is submitted to a heavy current or blast of air as conveyed upwardly through the portion 2 of said drier, the moisture therefrom being absorbed by the air current as it passes from the open 65 tated to present all surfaces thereof to the mid is delivered from the inclined flight to the horizontal conveyer flight, and during its passing through the conveyer drier housing erating on each of said portions of said tracks between said side frame members and movable longitudinally of said tracks for conveying fruit to be dried a hood over said longitudinal portion, a hood over said inclined portion of said track, and a fan within each of said hoods and adapted for forcing air dowm'vardly onto the fruit as con veyed and through the conveye'rs carrying the same. I

2. A fruit drying apparatus comprising an upwardly inclined open endless conveyer, a longitudinally disposed open endless cone veycr arranged with one end in cotiperation With'the upper end of said upwardly i11- clined conveyer, a housing inelosing said conveyers and open at its bottom, a plurality of hoods forming the top wall of said housing and each having a downwardly inclined roof, an end and side walls extended at substantially right angles from the conveyer over which the respective hoods are positioned, the end wall of certain of said hoods being formed with an opening, and the side walls of certain other of said hoods being formed with an opening, a fan in each of said openings, means for operating said fans to force air downwardly into and outwardly through the open bottom of said housing to dry the fruit as conveyed, and a shaft connecting the fans within the openings of the hood and Wallsto cause the operation of the same in unison.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE D. "PARKER.

- lVitnesses: I

CHAS. F. BRooKHAB'r, S. A. MARKS.

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