Kneading machine for food doughs with sealing of kneading tools
AssigneeDiosna Dierks & SöHne GmbH
InventorsHashem Ghani, Stefan Bensmann
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Abstract
A kneading machine for food doughs includes a kneading bowl, one or more tool shafts rotatably mounted in a housing, a kneading tool attachable to the tool shaft and insertable into the kneading bowl, and a kneading space, each tool shaft being assigned a seal carrier fixed to the housing and which carries a seal arrangement to seal the tool shaft with respect to the seal carrier, the seal carrier being spaced from the tool shaft by a first gap outside the kneading space and which communicates directly with an escape space for food particles escaping out of the kneading space.
Claims9
A kneading machine for food doughs, the kneading machine comprising:
- a kneading bowl;
- one or more tool shafts rotatably mounted in a housing;
- at least one kneading tool attachable to the one or more tool shafts and inserted into the kneading bowl;
- and
- a kneading space;
- each of the one or more tool shafts being assigned a seal carrier fixed to the housing and carrying a seal arrangement to seal the one or more tool shafts with respect to the seal carrier;
- wherein
- the seal carrier is spaced apart from the one or more tool shafts by a first gap outside the kneading space and which communicates directly with an escape space for food particles escaping out of the kneading space;
- between the one or more tool shafts and a portion of the kneading machine which is immovable at least during operation, a second gap is provided to communicate directly with the kneading space and the escape space;
- and
- the second gap is lower in a vertical direction than the first gap, and the second gap is located farther outwardly than the first gap in a radial direction with respect to an axis of rotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.