US 2006/0134776 A1 · Device for cereal malting

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (1) for malting cereals comprising a tower (2) consisting a certain number of stories which are separated from each other by storey floors (9, 10), each storey comprising an air-proof carrier plate (13) carrying germinating cereals (24). Said tower also comprises air conditioning means for air conditioning, transfer means provided with a feeding channel and a removing channel for transferring conditioned air by means of the feeding channel which extends from air conditioning means downwards to the bottom of the carrier plate,.passes along said carrier plate and a cereal layer arranged thereon in a direction of the top surface of said cereal layer and exits said top surface of the cereal layer by means of the removing channel. The inventive device is characterised in that the feeding channel and/or removing channel extend through a central opening in at least one storey floor.

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Dependent claims

A device for malting grain, comprising a tower with several tiers, which are separated from each other by tier floors, wherein each tier comprises an air-permeable carrying floor to support the grain to be germinated, along with air conditioning agents for conditioning the air and displacement means, also comprising a supply canal and discharge canal for displacing conditioned air via the supply canal, which extends starting from the air conditioning means to the bottom side of a carrying floor, through the carrying floor and a grain layer lying thereupon to the upper side of the grain layer, and via the discharge canal and away from the upper side of the grain layer, characterized in that the supply canal and/or discharge canal extends through a central opening into at least one tier floor (7, 8, 9, 10).

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Device for cereal malting

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Device for cereal malting

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Abstract

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