Apparatus for separating a liquid product from a package containing the liquid product

An apparatus for separating liquid product from a package containing the liquid product, comprising:

• a rotary press comprising a rotatable drum and an eccentrically placed roller at a lower part within the rotatable drum, the rotary press having a first end and an opposite end;
• the rotary press has a capturing space between the rotary drum and the roller, being defined by a narrowing distance between a roller outer surface and a rotary drum inner surface in a rotation direction of the rotary press for receiving, capturing and pressing a package containing liquid product;
• the rotary press has a releasing space between the rotary drum and the roller, being defined by a widening space between the roller outer surface and the rotary drum inner surface in the rotation direction of the rotary press for releasing the pressed package, and;
• the roller and the rotatable drum are cooperatively positioned to form a liquid barrier at a contact line between the outer surface of the roller and the inner surface of the rotatable drum for preventing liquid product pressed from the package from flowing from the capturing space into the releasing space;
• a first baffle placed between the roller and the rotatable drum for separating the capturing space and the releasing space;
• a first cover located at the opposite end of the rotary press, having a first seal disposed between the rotatable drum and the first cover allowing the rotary press to rotate while the first cover is stationary;
• wherein
• the first cover has a first output for allowing the liquid product to be drained from the capturing space from the rotary press, and a second output at the opposite end of the rotary press for allowing the package to be discharged from the releasing space.