Patent ID: 7900777

Claim:
A housing for a particulate material dedusting apparatus comprising: a casing having a back panel, a front panel and an interior panel dividing the casing into a main housing and an air plenum behind the main housing, said air plenum being divided by a separator panel into a clean air plenum and a dusty air plenum; a wash deck apparatus mounted in said main housing; a product inlet port connected in flow communication to said main housing to introduce an inflow of particulate material to be cleaned into said wash deck apparatus; a product discharge port connected in flow communication to said main housing for discharge of cleaned product from said main housing; a dusty air discharge opening formed in said main housing at a top portion of said main housing at respective outboard extremities thereof; and a pair of housing extensions extending above said main housing at said dusty air discharge openings to create a flow path for said air to be discharged from said main housing in a path that extends above said product inlet opening into said main housing, said housing extensions being in flow communication with said dusty air plenum.