Patent ID: 7842227

Claim:
A drying device for a square pillar-shaped honeycomb molded body, comprising a plurality of drying jigs and a piling member, wherein each of the plurality of drying jigs comprises: an upper jig and a lower jig, wherein the upper jig and the lower jig are adapted to form an enclosure, the enclosure being adapted to substantially surround the honeycomb molded body and substantially cover a side face of the honeycomb molded body and being configured so that the longitudinal direction of said honeycomb molded body is held in the horizontal direction while opposite angles of a square shape in the cross-section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of said honeycomb molded body are located on a same vertical line; and a fixing member for affixing the upper jig and the lower jig together to form the enclosure; and wherein the piling member is adapted to support one drying jig while being supported by another drying jig when more than one drying jigs are stacked, and the piling member comprises: a first V-shaped notch for engaging the lower jig of the drying jig, and a second V-shaped notch for engaging the upper jig of the drying jig, wherein a first vertex portion of the first V-shaped notch and a second vertex portion of the second V-shaped notch are substantially aligned along the vertical line.