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US 11,980,895 B2Granted
Endless maceration conveyor assembly with juice deflector
OwnerAlan Lewis Fitzmauriceinventor
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A maceration conveyor assembly feeding into a first mill of a milling tandem, where output from the mill 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. Weirs include overflows which extend across the conveyor. The conveyor assembly includes an inlet end and an outlet end all supported on a supporting framework so that the assembly is inclined from the inlet end to the outlet end. The frame supports respective side walls of a conveyor trough between which travels an endless plate conveyor. The endless plate conveyor comprises interconnected perforated plates adapted to pivot relative to each other in chain like fashion so that the endless plate conveyor effectively functions as a belt conveyor having rigid plates interconnected in pivotal fashion.
In an endless maceration conveyor in a sugar cane factory, the endless maceration conveyor comprising an arrangement of a chain of pivotally connected plates adapted for flow of sugar cane juice through the plates, the plates being arranged to form a substantially contiguous surface across adjacent plates along an upper contact surface of the conveyor in order to inhibit clogging of the conveyor;
In an endless maceration conveyor in a sugar cane factory, the endless maceration conveyor comprising an arrangement of a chain of pivotally connected plates adapted for flow of sugar cane juice through the plates, the plates being arranged to form a substantially contiguous surface across adjacent plates along an upper contact surface of the conveyor in order to inhibit clogging of the conveyor, wherein a collection trough is located below the conveyor, and a juice deflector is disposed above the conveyor.
In an endless maceration conveyor in a sugar cane factory, the endless maceration conveyor comprising an arrangement of a chain of pivotally connected plates adapted for flow of sugar cane juice through the plates, the plates being arranged to form a substantially contiguous surface across adjacent plates along an upper contact surface of the conveyor in order to inhibit clogging of the conveyor, wherein the endless maceration conveyor includes drive chains, and wherein the plates have opposite ends and bridge between respective drive chains and move in concert with the drive chains, each drive chain having chain links, each drive chain link having a plate attachment and each plate having a corresponding drive chain link attachment at each end, adjacent plates having overlapping sliding surfaces extending between opposed drive chain links, each plate having a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge of each plate being concealed under the trailing edge of the adjacent plate, each edge being part of a curve, the respective curves on each plate being of different diameter to each other.
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