Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – Houses – kilns – and containers
Patent
1992-12-17
1994-06-07
Bennett, Henry A.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
Houses, kilns, and containers
62374, 198372, 198457, F26B 1900
Patent
active
053178181
ABSTRACT:
A conveying system for food processing such as cooling pouches of food discharged in a single line from a pouch filler including apparatus for rearranging the pouches in order to shorten the line. One apparatus is a right angle transfer device in which the pouches are discharged in a single line onto a belt array which is then dropped to allow an array of rollers to support the pouch and transfer its direction of motion. Another apparatus includes an array of rollers which move the pouch into a position forming a row of pouches which is then picked up by rollers and moved in a direction as a line of rows of pouches. Another apparatus is a belt system for supporting the row of pouches as it is being transferred from a downstream end of an upper conveyor to an upstream end of a lower conveyor thereby reversing the direction of motion of the pouches and allowing them to pass back through the treatment chamber. Mechanistic principles of the invention can be applied to various other operations in addition to hydrochilling such as heating, spraying, etc.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4718534 (1988-01-01), Harper
patent: 5165516 (1992-11-01), Reed et al.
Bennett Henry A.
Garroutte, Inc.
Hill Robert Charles
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