picks up the fibers entering through the feed hopper and carries them to the discharge orifice 18 of the dryer this type of dryer is rapid acting and may carry the fibers through drying them sufficiently to provide optimum molding conditions such as to 5 and preferably to about 3 moisture by weight in less than a minute the fibers exiting from the discharge orifice 18 of the dryer are carried away upon a conveyor 19 this conveyor also receives synthetic plastic fiber which begins as a bale 20 entering into the equipment upon a conveyor 21 a conventional bale breaker and shredder 22 which is schematically shown shreds the bale into fibers 23 which are deposited as a thin coating over the blanket of wood fibers 13 upon the conveyor 24 by way of example the coating of synthetic fibers may be on the order of an eighth or a quarter of an inch upon a 2 inch thickness of wood fibers however the thicknesses of the fiber deposits may vary considerably depending upon the nature of the fibers and the fiber ratio of the final specified blend preferably the wood fibers predominate optionally the synthetic fibers 23 may be deposited from conveyor 23 upon conveyor 14 and travel through the dryer 16 with the wood fibers the wood fiber and synthetic fiber mixture is carried to a feed conveyor 28 see fig1 b and 2 where it is raised and dropped into the upper end of a large blending or distributor chamber 29 the fiber is gravity dropped downwardly through the chamber being spread apart and evenly disbursed by a v shaped spreader 30 located within the chamber the dropping fibers accumulate upon blending rolls.