Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F26—DRYING
  • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
  • F26B15/00—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form
  • F26B15/10—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form with movement in a path composed of one or more straight lines, e.g. compound, the movement being in alternate horizontal and vertical directions
  • F26B15/12—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form with movement in a path composed of one or more straight lines, e.g. compound, the movement being in alternate horizontal and vertical directions the lines being all horizontal or slightly inclined
  • F26B15/14—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form with movement in a path composed of one or more straight lines, e.g. compound, the movement being in alternate horizontal and vertical directions the lines being all horizontal or slightly inclined the objects or batches of materials being carried by trays or racks or receptacles, which may be connected to endless chains or belts
  • F26B15/143—Machines or apparatus for drying objects with progressive movement; Machines or apparatus with progressive movement for drying batches of material in compact form with movement in a path composed of one or more straight lines, e.g. compound, the movement being in alternate horizontal and vertical directions the lines being all horizontal or slightly inclined the objects or batches of materials being carried by trays or racks or receptacles, which may be connected to endless chains or belts the receptacles being wholly or partly foraminous, e.g. containing a batch of loose material
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G17/00—Conveyors having an endless traction element, e.g. a chain, transmitting movement to a continuous or substantially-continuous load-carrying surface or to a series of individual load-carriers; Endless-chain conveyors in which the chains form the load-carrying surface
  • B65G17/30—Details; Auxiliary devices
  • B65G17/32—Individual load-carriers
  • B65G17/36—Individual load-carriers having concave surfaces, e.g. buckets
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F26—DRYING
  • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
  • F26B25/00—Details of general application not covered by group F26B21/00 or F26B23/00
  • F26B25/06—Chambers, containers, or receptacles
  • F26B25/14—Chambers, containers, receptacles of simple construction
  • F26B25/18—Chambers, containers, receptacles of simple construction mainly open, e.g. dish, tray, pan, rack
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
  • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
  • B65G2201/02—Articles
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F26—DRYING
  • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
  • F26B2210/00—Drying processes and machines for solid objects characterised by the specific requirements of the drying goods
  • F26B2210/06—Long pasta, e.g. spaghetti
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F26—DRYING
  • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
  • F26B2210/00—Drying processes and machines for solid objects characterised by the specific requirements of the drying goods
  • F26B2210/08—Short pasta, e.g. macaroni, vermicelli

Definitions

• the invention relates to a continuous conveyor for pasta products inside a dryer.
• such fresh pasta in the form of nests is obtained by placing simultaneously more threads of pasta, and these already wound-up in form of a spiral, into a special container shaped like a cylindrical holed bottom cup ⁇
• the pasta nest height depends on the weight of the nest itself, and usually it is some centimeters high.
• a dryer is dimensioned for a certain capacity, that is to remove a certain quantity of water per unit of volume of pasta and it is also known that, under conditions which are very different to nominal ones, dryer efficiency is low; which consequently increases running costs.
• Pasta nests are infact packed according to quantities which not always are multiples of those obtainable from each container; therefore, their separation which does not result to be so easy when they are already "dried". is absolutely necessary.
• a continuous conveyor for pasta products inside a dryer consisting of substantially flexible transport means arranged inside the dryer according to the desidered path and of a plurality of containers which are restrained to such substantially flexible transport means, characterized in that each container comprises at least two ventilated shelves placed at different heights and in staggered position one with respect to the other in such a way that when said containers are restrained to said transport means they result to be partially penetrated one into the other, with each shelf of any element located in a position underlying the upper shelf of the adjacent element.
• fig. 1 shows in perspective view a length of the continuous conveyor with three matched containers
• fig. 2 illustrates the continuous conveyor according to section II-II fig. 3,
• fig. 3 shows it according to section III-III of fig- 2, and fig. 4 shows it in partially sectioned side view.
• the continuous conveyor comprises a set of containers 1 formed by two staggered shelves 3.
• Such shelves 3 have substantially a parallelepiped shape with the holed bottom made, for instance, of a wire gauze 5.
• containers may be also be formed by more than two superimposed shelves.
• the continuous conveyor according to the invention operates as follows.
• the shelves may be also used as supporting elements for metal or plastic, cylindrical or prismatic holed-bottom cups.

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• 1989
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  • 1990-07-31 CA CA 2064011 patent/CA2064011A1/en not_active Abandoned
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