F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 26 – B
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
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F26B 19/00 (2006.01) F26B 3/04 (2006.01) F26B 21/00 (2006.01) F26B 21/02 (2006.01) F26B 23/02 (2006.01) F26B 25/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2340615
A duct system includes an upper duct that supplies heated air to an upper plenum and a lower duct that supplies heated air to a lower plenum, and the upper and lower plenums provide the heated air to a kiln chamber. An intermediate plenum is between the upper and lower plenums and has outlets through which heated air supplied to the upper and lower plenums is discharged. A plurality of circulation passages extend generally laterally through the intermediate plenum. Fans positioned in the circulation passages circulate heated air that is external to the plenums. The outlets are nozzles defining discharge axes that are respectively directed generally parallel to, yet slightly toward, the rotational axes of the fans. Tips of the fans' blades extend into boundary layers adjacent the interior surfaces of the circulation passages. The fans operate in first and second modes to respectively force flow in opposite first and second directions. Heated air is supplied from the intermediate plenum to the high-pressure sides of the fans. The plenums together generally define an I-like shape in an in an end elevation view thereof. Constrictions are defined proximate the low-pressure sides of the fans and an expansions are defined proximate the high-pressure sides of the fans. A flange- equipped lower wall of the lower plenum extends beyond the edges of a charge of lumber positioned thereunder for drying. The intermediate and lower plenums are telescopically movable with respect to one another. The lower plenum is lowered onto walls that extend upward from a slab, and enclosing structures are mounted to the upper plenum.
Holbert John Craig
Nagel Robert T.
Culp George R.
Holbert John Craig
Nagel Robert T.
Sim & Mcburney
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