Food forming concept
AssigneeGea Food Solutions Bakel B.V.
InventorsHendrikus Petrus Gerardus Van Gerwen, Petrus Hubertus Maria Schoenmakers
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Abstract
A system that includes a mould drum having one or more product cavities, a first front end, and a second front end; a forming apparatus, which utilizes the mould drum to form food products from a food mass; a cleaning apparatus, which cleans the mould drum after forming the food products, the cleaning apparatus is remote from the forming apparatus; a movable unit that is configured to transport the mould drum from the forming apparatus to the cleaning apparatus, and vice versa; and a support structure and a spindle, which are reversibly attached to the forming apparatus during production and reversibly attached to the movable unit during the transport of the mould drum.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- a mould drum comprising one or more product cavities, the mould drum comprising a first front end and a second front end;
- a forming apparatus, which utilizes the mould drum to form food products from a food mass;
- a cleaning apparatus, which cleans the mould drum after forming the food products, the cleaning apparatus is remote from the forming apparatus;
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- a movable unit that is configured to transport the mould drum from the forming apparatus to the cleaning apparatus, and vice versa;
- wherein the system comprises a support structure and a spindle, the spindle comprises a rod-shaped element having a first end that is attached to the support structure and an opposing second end that is configured to be inserted into an inner opening of the mould drum;
- wherein the support structure and the spindle are removably attached to the forming apparatus during production and are removably attached to the movable unit during the transport of the mould drum,
- wherein the support structure is configured to be attached to the forming apparatus so that the mould drum rotates around the spindle while the spindle and the support structure are fixed from rotating during the production.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.