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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1996
Kelsey C Thom, Jr, Cedar Falls, IA (US);
California Pellet Mill Company, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A horizontal cooler/dryer having a continuous traveling conveyor, the conveyor being a chain conveyor formed of a plurality of links adjoined in end-to-end relationship, each of the links being pivotally pinned at its ends to adjacent links; a housing about the conveyor, the housing having a cooling gas inlet, a gas exhaust, a product inlet through which material to be cooled may be deposited on the conveyor and a product outlet through which cooled material can be discharged; and a plurality of non-perforate material pans mounted to the conveyor in juxtaposed overlapping relationship to form a substantially continuous surface about the conveyor.