now the task of rubbing animals in particular horses ponies or the like dry once they have been washed has involved strenuous manual work the effort involved in this rubbing dry action means that the horses are often dried insufficiently and this results in particular in them catching chills the invention proposes an apparatus for drying animals which has a housing with air outlet openings on the underside the housing is assigned fans for generating an air flow and air distributing plates as a result of which a uniform air stream is generated this uniform air stream is heated by flowing along plate convectors and then passes out of the housing at the bottom as hot air through both air outlet holes and air outlet slits a hot air flow generated in this way makes it possible for animals in particular horses to be dried carefully and effectively application_number US 50353900 A description the apparatus shown in the figures serves for drying horses the apparatus is suspended in space to be precise at a level at which it is located at a small distance above the horse 39 s back the horse 39 s head is thus located in front of the apparatus the horse is centrally beneath the apparatus to be precise in relation to a central longitudinal axis 10 of the apparatus fig4 and 5 the apparatus has a box like housing 11 with parallel upright side walls 12 likewise parallel and upright end walls 13 a curved base wall 14 and a curved top wall 15 the base wall 14 and the top wall 15 are curved approximately equally in one direction to be precise in the direction transverse to the longitudinal axis 10 and this curvature is such that it.