(under the class definition) Apparatus comprising material handling means or material conveying means combined with means to dry and/or contact the material being treated with a treating gas or vapor.
(1) Note. See appropriate subclasses of this class for the apparatus here defined combined with other apparatus, and complete the search in subclass 162 for means peculiar to sheet, web or strand, and subclass 71 for absorbent conveyors combined with other drying means.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
576+, for fluid current conveyors.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
193, Conveyors, Chutes, Skids, Guides, and Ways. 198, Conveyors: Power-Driven.
