Contact flash dryer and method of contact flash drying

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8533973
APP PUB NO 20100132213A1
SERIAL NO

12624756

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An apparatus and method operations are provided for flash drying paste provided on strips of battery plate grids, wherein the paste is dried through contact with a plurality of heated rollers. The plurality of heated rollers are individually driven and heating of the heated rollers is controlled on an individual basis with a feedback loop. The plurality of heated rollers are positioned so as to move the pasted strip of battery plates through contact with the heated rollers; as a result of this contact with the heated rollers, moisture is removed from the paste, so as to provide a pasted strip that with a sufficiently low moisture content to be divided into battery plate grids.

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  • MAC ENGINEERING AND EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Biastock, Richard A Coloma, US 1 13
Ulrich, Dennis S Coloma, US 1 2

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