Dehydrating apparatus

• US 3,239,946 A
• Filed: 12/06/1961
• Issued: 03/15/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John H. Forkner
• Original Assignee: John H. Forkner
• Inventors: Forkner, John H.
• Application Number:
  US04/157,449
• Time in Patent Office: 1,560 Days
• US Class Current: 34/69
• CPC Class Codes: A21D 6/00 Other treatment of flour or dough before baking, e.g. cooling, irradiating, heating
• CPC Class Codes: A23B 4/031 Apparatus for drying A23B4/037 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 3/42 with addition of chemicals before or during drying

Claims

1. IN APPARATUS FOR THE DEHYDRATION OF DISCRETE MASSES OF MOIST MATERIAL, TANK MEANS ADAPTED TO CONTAIN A QUANTITY OF HOT OIL, CHARGING MEANS CONNECTED TO THE TANK MEANS AND OPERABLE TO INTRODUCE SAID MATERIAL INTO THE TANK MEANS, EVACUATING MEANS FOR PLACING THE INTERIOR OF THE TANK UNDER PARTIAL VACUUM AND SERVING TO EVACUATE VAPORS AND GASES FROM THE TANK MEANS, SAID CHARGING MEANS HAVING A SPACE NORMALLY CLOSED WITH RESPECT TO THE ATMOSPHERE AND ADAPTED TO CONTAIN A QUANTITY OF MATERIAL TO BE INTRODUCED INTO THE TANK MEANS FOR DEHYDRATION AND ALSO ADAPTED TO BE IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE INTERIOR OF THE TANK MEANS WHEREBY SAID EVACUATING MEANS SERVES TO PLACE BOTH THE INTERIOR OF THE TANK MEANS AND THE SPACE OF SAID CHARGING MEANS UNDER PARTIAL VACUUM, SAID CHARGING MEANS BEING OPERABLE UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS OF PARTIAL VACUUM TO FEED MATERIAL FRFOM SAID SPACE INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE TANK MEANS, AND MEANS FOR REMOVING DISCRETE MASSES OF DEHYDRATED MATERIAL FROM THE TANK MEANS.