Eco-friendly horizontal-axis hydrowasher for fermented coffee
AssigneePenagos Hermanos Y CIA S.A.S.
InventorsAlvaro ARDILA DUARTE, Elias ARIZA VILLAMIL
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Abstract
The invention relates to a horizontal axis pressure washer that allows removing the mucilage from fermented coffee efficiently with a low consumption of water and power. The main characteristic of the pressure washer of the present invention is the rotor located horizontally in a circular basket, where said rotor comprises several rows with three types of fingers specialized in three tasks: cleaning, shaking and injecting water with pressure. Said combination of functionalities allows the complete elimination of mucilage from fermented coffee.
Claims8
Pressure washer for fermented coffee comprising a hopper (8), an inlet frame (4), a circular basket (2), a horizontal rotor (3), which in turn comprises specialized fingers located along it, wherein the fingers are characterized by being i) metal stirring fingers (3A) fixed to the rotor, ii) pressurized water injectors fingers (3B) and iii) cleaning fingers (3C), an outlet frame (5) and an outlet mouth (9).
A process for removing mucilage adhered to fermented coffee comprising:
- Addition of fermented coffee covered with mucilage to the hopper (8) together with a flow of water from the electric pump (14),
- Reception of the flow of water and fermented coffee through the inlet frame (4),
- Dosed entry of the flow of water and fermented coffee to the circular basket (2) through the movement of the rotor inlet auger (3) located horizontally,
- Elimination of the mucilage adhered to the coffee as a result of the direct contact of the fermented coffee with the metal fingers (3A), (3B) and (3C) welded to the central body of the rotor (3), where said fingers rotate together with the rotor (3) and work as a team, so that (3A) agitates and rubs the beans, (3B) injects and atomizes the water at high pressure, and (3C) cleans the internal part of the circular basket (2),
- Ejection of clean coffee by action of the rotor outlet auger (3) and water from the electric pump (14) through the outlet frame (5) and the outlet mouth (9) which is inclined.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.