drying house

An apartment in which anything is exposed to a current of air moderately heated; it is not easy to draw the line between an oven, a dryer, and a kiln; the words are used with some degree of carele ne , and have become technical in trades. Cores are dried in ovens; pottery in ovens or bis-closets; feathers in renovators, The drying chamber comprises a central chamber and one or more wings hinged thereto, and mounted on wheels or castors for the purpose of ready acce to the chambers and for removal from place to place. On one side is a suitable provision for drying clothes, and on on the other for drying fruits. In the central chamber is a stove and apparatus for heating. drying-machine, s. Calico-making : A machine for drying printed calicoes. The apparatus is in a hot room, and has a series of heated steam chests and cylinders with upper and lower rollers, over which the cloth is exposed to the drying air of the apartment. Similar drying cylinders are used in paper-making machines, both the cylinder machines and those of the Fourdrinier pattern, in which the sheet of pulp is felted on an agitated horizontal web. Drying machines are also used in bleaching, drying, and laundry works; the cylinders, in which the articles to be dried are placed, being made to revolve with great speed, the moisture is thus driven away by the action of centrifugal force. 1556