A method of manufacturing ceramic tape includes a step of directing a tape of partially-sintered ceramic into a furnace. The tape is partially-sintered such that grains of the ceramic are fused to one another yet the tape still includes at least 10% porosity by volume, where the porosity refers to volume of the tape unoccupied by the ceramic. The method further includes steps of conveying the tape through the furnace and further sintering the tape as the tape is conveyed through the furnace. The porosity of the tape decreases during the further sintering step.

A papermaking machine having at least one of a dryer section or a press section configured to receive a web of material, at least one inductive energy generator, and first and second fabrics, which can be dryer or press fabrics, including induction heat susceptors. The first and second fabrics are supported for movement through the at least one of the dryer section or the press section and adapted to contact the web of material. The inductive energy generator is used to generate heat in the induction heat susceptors in order to heat a paper web being carried by the fabrics in order to remove moisture.

A papermaking machine having at least one of a dryer section or a press section configured to receive a web of material, at least one inductive energy generator, and first and second fabrics, which can be dryer or press fabrics, including induction heat susceptors. The first and second fabrics are supported for movement through the at least one of the dryer section or the press section and adapted to contact the web of material. The inductive energy generator is used to generate heat in the induction heat susceptors in order to heat a paper web being carried by the fabrics in order to remove moisture.

An infrared radiator for the heat treatment of a material web has an incandescent body, which is flowed along a flow-receiving surface by a gas-air mixture supplied to the infrared radiator and heated by combustion of the gas-air mixture. The incandescent body has a surface with which the gas-air mixture or combustion products thereof come into contact. A ratio of the surface area of the incandescent body to the surface area of the flow-receiving surface of the incandescent body is greater than two.

A drying device includes: a supporting section that supports a medium on which printing was performed; a conveying section that conveys, along a conveying region, the medium supported by the supporting section; a heat generating section configured to heat, over a width direction, the medium supported by the supporting section; a fix-supporting section configured to support the heat generating section fixing the heat generating section; and free-supporting section configured to support the heat generating section so that the heat generating section can expand and contract, wherein the fix-supporting section is located in a first lateral region that is a region outside the conveying region in the width direction, and the free-supporting section is located in a second lateral region that is a region outside the conveying region in the width direction and different from the first lateral region.

The invention discloses a rapid cleaning device for producing mats, which includes a washing machine. The washing machine is provided with a cleaning chamber with an upward opening. The left and right sides of the cleaning chamber are provided with rotation wheels. A conveyer belt is wound around the conveyer wheels. The conveyer belt is recessed downward in the middle and immersed in the cleaning liquid. In the present invention, the mat is immersed in the conveying process. In the cleaning liquid, the bamboo surface is polished and washed to remove burrs and stains on the bamboo surface of the mat, and then the mat is dried at high temperature quickly to ensure that it is not affected by moisture during subsequent processing. At the same time, the device mat is adjusted to ensure that the mat does not shift during transportation.

Seal member for a nozzle or an air bar, that is configured and can be positioned to block at least a portion of the flow of air (or gas) exiting or discharged from the nozzle or air bar into the interior of a housing such as a dryer or the like. Each seal member can be actuated externally of the housing interior, without requiring physical access to the housing interior, to move it into air flow blocking relation with a nozzle, and to move it out of air flow blocking relation with a nozzle. Each seal member can be actuated while the apparatus remains in an operating mode. Also disclosed is a method of controlling or regulating the amount of air emitted or discharged from one or more nozzles in a housing by blocking air flow discharged from the one or more nozzles with a seal member.

A conveying device includes a blower, a conveyor, and an upstream blower. The blower blows air to a sheet material. The conveyor includes a sandwiching unit to sandwich the sheet material, and conveys the sheet material to a blowing region of the blower. The upstream blower blows air toward a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the sheet material, from an upstream side of the blowing region in the conveyance direction of the sheet material to the blowing region.

A clothes dryer including a cabinet, a drum rotatably supported in the cabinet, a supply port configured to guide air into the drum, an exhaust port configured to guide the air in the drum to an outside of the drum, and a lint removing apparatus configured to remove lint from the air passing through the exhaust port. Where the lint removing apparatus includes a lint filter configured to capture lint, a rotation member rotatably installed to scrape and collect the lint captured in the lint filer, a driving device configured to generate power, a first coupler connected to the driving device to receive the power from the driving device, and a second coupler coupled to the first coupler to transmit the power to the rotation member.

Described are embodiments of an electrode manufacturing system that pertains to batteries and methods of preparing batteries. In some embodiments, the system includes at least one coater configured to coat a side of an electrode substrate with an electrode slurry to form a coated electrode substrate. The system can also include a multi-pass dryer configured to dry the coated electrode substrate, wherein the web path length of the coated electrode substrate in the dryer is greater than a footprint length of the dryer.