STORAGE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: storage bin has shelf fencing with horizontal strips or strips inclined inside bin. Fencing parts are positioned in spaced relation to bin wall and space is covered with plate to define distributing channels along storage walls. Exhaust and input ventilation pipelines are connected with distributing channels. Pile of products is covered with layer of roll material. Distributing channels are divided into sections by walls with flaps. Air having predetermined temperature and moisture content is supplied at predetermined flow rate into distributing channel, flows between fencing strips and further into pile of product, for instance potato, flows though potato pile and is delivered into other channel and discharged through exhaust pipeline. Space between fencing strips is large enough and does not obstruct passage of air from distributing channel directly into potato pile. EFFECT: increased efficiency by uniform supplying of air into filled storage, improved potato storage conditions. 2 cl, 2 dwg