shows a drying cylinder referenced 1 overall and featuring in customary fashion an internally fluted refer to fig2 through 5 cylinder shell 12 and on each end a cylinder cover with a pertaining hollow journal 13 15 respectively drying cylinder 1 is heated with superheated steam d which proceeds through the one journal 15 at the right in the drawing into the interior of drying cylinder 1 the condensate forming inside drying cylinder 1 due to cooling is passed to a hollow shaft 17 by means of several condensate risers 14 which in spider fashion are distributed across the circumference hollow shaft 17 passes coaxially with the axis of rotation 10 of drying cylinder 1 through second journal 13 at the left in the figure and carries the condensate to a condensate evacuation line refer to arrow x which feeds it e g to a steam separator hollow shaft 17 is mounted on journal 13 by means of a bracket 16 and extends outward through the journal where it hooks to condensate evacuation line x the radially outer ends of condensate risers 14 connect to a collector 18 which is spaced from the inside wall of drying cylinder 1 and extends as a single or alternatively several pieces essentially across the entire length of drying cylinder 1 collector 18 in turn connects to a plurality of condensate evacuation pipes 20 fig2 through 5 each of which is of assigned individually to a groove of the fluted inside wall drying cylinder 1 and extends into the groove condensate forming in the grooves is sucked into the condensate evacuation pipes due to the pressure difference between the interior of drying cylinder 1 and condensate evacuation line x and passed outside via collector 18 condensate risers 14 and hollow shaft 17.