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Primary Examiner: Millin, V.
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Attorney: Bell, Seltzer, Park & Gibson

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Title: Apparatus and method for automatically controlling curing conditions in a tobacco curing barn

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for bulk curing tobacco in which the temperature conditions in the tobacco curing barn are automatically controlled by heating the air being circulated through the barn in a controlled manner to maintain a predetermined differential in the dry bulb temperature of the air entering and leaving the curing chamber.

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Inventors: Horne, William P. (Charlotte, NC, US)

Application Number: 835232
Filing Date: 1977-09-21
Publication_date: 1980-03-11
Assignee: Gas-Fired Products, Inc. (Charlotte, NC)
Primary Class(es): 131/303 432/500
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

3203265	Aug, 1965	Flegel	74/124.
3502085	Mar, 1970	Wochnowski	131/135.
3503137	Mar, 1970	Wilson	34/45.
3664034	May, 1970	Wilson et al.	131/140.
3927683	Dec, 1975	Wilson et al.	131/140.
3937227	Feb, 1976	Azumano	131/134.

Other Refs: Other References: The Flue Cured Tobacco Farmer, 3 (4) 6, 10, "Go Modern with Tobacco Curing," by James Shepard, 3/15/1966.
Chronica Naturea, Deel 104, AFL. 5, MEI 1948, "Constant Wet-Bulb Temperature for Proper Flue Curing of Tobacco," by Dr. Ir H. A. Middleburg.
Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 706-709, 1969; "Temperature Differential as a Control Parameter in Tobacco Curing," by L. M. Sykes and W. H. Johnson.