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US 11,618,035 B2Granted
Endless maceration conveyor assembly with juice deflector
OwnerAlan Lewis Fitzmauriceinventor
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In a maceration conveyor assembly (10) a juice deflector (50) deflects juice around a return run of a conveyor into a trough (51). Preferably the juice deflector and trough are configured as opposed axially extending V-shaped stainless steel plates. The assembly (10) feeds into a first mill (11) of a milling tandem, and output from the mill (11) is delivered onto another conveyor and carried to the next mill in the tandem. Low pol maceration liquid is returned to the conveyor via return lines to respective distribution weirs (16) and (17). The conveyor assembly (10) includes an inlet end (20) and an outlet end (21) all supported on a supporting framework (22) so that the assembly is inclined from the inlet end (20) to the outlet end (22). An endless plate conveyor (25) comprises interconnected perforated plates (26) adapted to pivot relative to each other in chain like fashion.
In an endless maceration conveyor in a sugar cane factory, the conveyor having a forward run and a return run and there being an underside arrangement extending along and below the forward run of the conveyor, the conveyor having marginal edges and the underside arrangement employing a juice deflector to deflect juice about the return run of the conveyor and there being a juice trough having respective opposed side walls, the side walls overlapping the marginal edges of the conveyor along and below the return run, so that the deflector deflects juice into the trough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.