Device and method for pastillating a flowable product
AssigneeIpco Germany GmbH
InventorBernd Schmidt
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Abstract
A device for pastillating a flowable product, in particular a melt. The device has a revolving belt and a drop former, and the drop former deposits product drops on an upper run of the belt. The product drops, in the course of transportation on the upper run of the belt, solidify to form pastilles, and an arrangement for wetting the belt with a liquid release agent is provided upstream of that region in which the product drops are deposited on the belt. The release agent prevents or reduces the adhesion of the product drops to the belt, and a proportional metering pump is provided for continuously mixing the release agent from at least two liquid components during the operation of the device.
Claims20
A device for pastillating a flowable product, said device having a revolving belt and a drop former, the drop former depositing flowable product drops on an upper run of the belt, the product drops in the course of transportation on the upper run of the belt solidifying to form pastilles, the device further including an arrangement for wetting the belt with a liquid release agent disposed upstream of a region in which the product drops are deposited on the belt, the release agent preventing or reducing adhesion of the product drops to the belt, and a proportional metering pump for continuously mixing the release agent formed from at least two liquid components during operation of the device, the proportional metering pump setting a mixing ratio between the at least two liquid components and outputting a completely mixed release agent in a desired concentration or in a desired composition via a single line disposed downstream of the proportional metering pump.
A device for pastillating a flowable product, said device comprising:
- a revolving belt having an upper run and a lower run;
- a drop former configured and disposed to deposit flowable product drops on said upper run of said belt at a deposit region, said upper run being disposed to transport the product drops away from said drop former along a transportation path on which the product drops solidify;
- an arrangement for wetting said belt with a liquid release agent to prevent or reduce adhesion of the product drops to said belt, said wetting arrangement being disposed upstream, with respect to a direction of movement of said belt, of said deposit region;
- a proportional metering pump, said metering pump having an output and two inputs disposed to respectively receive two liquid components, said metering pump being configured to set a mixing ratio between the two liquid components and to continuously mix the two liquid components during operation of said device to form a completely mixed liquid release agent having a desired concentration or a desired composition;
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- a single line disposed downstream, with respect to a flow direction through said metering pump, of said metering pump, said single line being connected to said output of said metering pump such that said single line receives the completely mixed liquid release agent from said metering pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.