Patent ID: 6962003

Claim:
A high-speed drying apparatus comprising: a double housing structure comprising an inner housing and an outer housing enclosing the inner housing with a space defined between the inner and outer housing; a preliminary drying compartment for blowing air and substantially removing remaining rinse from wet objects, which have been rinsed in a nonvolatile liquid or volatile liquid; a super drying compartment placed adjacent to the preliminary drying compartment, and designed to blow dry air and remove the still remaining rinse from the objects, both compartments being placed in the inner housing; and a transporting path with which the inner and outer housings and both compartments communicate with each other and along which the wet objects move in an object transferring direction from an entrance to the apparatus, the preliminary drying compartment being equipped with air jet nozzles, which are obliquely directed towards the entrance in a direction opposite to the object-transferring direction, thereby producing a counter component of air stream to prevent invasion of air from the preliminary drying compartment to the super drying compartment, whereas the super drying compartment being equipped with dry air jet nozzles, which are arranged perpendicular to the object-transferring direction, thereby preventing disturbance of the inner atmosphere, and invasion of the surrounding atmosphere into the super drying compartment.