Patent ID: 8132337

Claim:
A wood particles/sawdust drying system comprising: A first box with a substantially rectangular shape and a first side and an opposing substantially parallel second side; a third side and an opposing substantially parallel fourth side which each are substantially perpendicular to each of the first side and the second side; the third side and the fourth side being separated by a distance substantially the same as a first dimension of the first side and the second side; a first panel and an opposing substantially coplanar second panel, each of which is coupled to each of the first side, second side, third side and the fourth side; a plurality of less than full-length dividers disposed inside said box and arranged to be substantially parallel with one of the first side and the third side, said plurality of less than full-length substantially parallel dividers being disposed so as to be perpendicular to, but not contact one of said first side and said third side; a plurality of parallel blocking dividers interleaved with the plurality of less than full length dividers and configured to form a serpentine path through the rectangular box; a heated air inlet port and an outlet port on an opposing side of side rectangular box; a non-dry material inlet port in said first box and disposed along said serpentine path and closer to said heated air input port than to said outlet port; a source of matter to be dried provided at a controllable delivery rate into the rectangular box through the material inlet port; a source of controllable heated moving air supplied to said heated air input port with such a velocity so as to cause the matter to be dried to become suspended in the heated moving air and further causing the material to be dried to be moved through the serpentine path without further assistance other than said heated moving air.