To provide a hot air circulating type auto rack dryer and drying method using the same, uniformly and favorably drying material to be printed such as printing paper.
This hot air circulating type auto rack dryer includes a hot air dying part for drying material to be printed. The hot air drying part includes a plurality of units, and each unit includes an upper area and a lower area. Each unit includes a heat source, a fan and a pair of first regulating plates. Each regulating plate includes: a body plate part, the inner edge of which is fitted to a side surface part of the heat source in the upper area, and the outer edge of which is separated from the inner wall of the unit; and an extending plate part extended from the outer edge of the body plate part along the inner wall of the unit up to the inside of the lower area. Hot air generated by heating the heat source and driving the fan in rotation flows from the upper area side to the lower area side while being regulated by each first regulating plate.
SAKAI AKIRA
Kazuo Shamoto
Yasushi Kobayashi
Akio Chiba
Hiroyuki Tomita
Toru Miyamae