Title: Crop drying apparatus

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1. A barn for the storage, transportation and drying of crops comprising:

a. a running gear having a carriage, wheels for supporting said carriage, and means for propelling said carriage over the ground on said wheels; and

b. a housing supported on said carriage, said housing having a plurality of walls forming a bottom, a pair of upright opposed sides, an upright front, and an upright back, a roof for the sides and front and back walls; and

c. a foraminous floor above said bottom for defining, with said bottom, a heated air chamber;

d. said housing having an air intake port in the lower portion of one of said walls; and

e. means for removably connecting said air intake port to an external heater for introducing air under pressure from said heater into said chamber through said port;

one of said walls including an access door extending on opposite sides of the plane of said floor for simultaneously permitting access to the interior of said housing and opening a portion of said chamber to the atmosphere, when said door is opened.

2. The barn defined in claim 1 wherein said roof is removable for permitting access to the interior of said housing.

3. The barn defined in claim 1 including vertically spaced parallel central runners removable disposed longitudinally in the central portion of said housing, additional runners affixed, to the inside surfaces of the side wall in opposed relationship to said central runners for receiving and supporting by their ends racks containing tobacco.

4. The barn defined in claim 3 wherein said one wall includes a vertical post means for supporting said central runners and engaging said access door.

Other info:

Inventors: Harrell, Danny Hugh (Pelham, GA, US)

Application Number: 486879
Filing Date: 1974-07-09
Publication_date: 1976-08-03
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 34/233 432/500, 454/90
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

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Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Camby, John J.
Assistant Examiner: Yuen, Henry C.
Attorney: Newton, Hopkins & Ormsby