Device for extracting a sugar mass from a vacuum cooker
AssigneeCarle & Monanari S.p.A.
InventorMario Bonifacino
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Abstract
A device for extracting a sugar mass from a vacuum cooker, comprising a centrifugal turbine-like rotor equipped with a limited number of blades for the extraction of the sugar mass, said rotor being placed in a housing which may be connected to said cooker and whereon an outer cavity is provided for the introduction of a heating fluid. The sugar mass drops directly into the scroll of the centrifugal rotor, where it is conveyed, under a slight pressure, through a peripheral conduit leading into a tangential outlet duct.
Claims9
A device for conveying a sugar mass having certain viscosity, water content and temperature parameters from a vacuum cooker to a machine for manufacturing sweets while resisting changing of said parameters and while resisting crystallization of the sugar mass, comprising:
- (a) a casing having an internal casing wall bounding an internal chamber, an inlet connectable to a vacuum cooker for admitting a vacuum-cooked sugar mass from the cooker to the chamber, and an outlet connectable to a machine for manufacturing sweets for discharging the vacuum-cooked sugar mass from the chamber to the machine;
- (b) a rotor mounted in the chamber for rotation in a direction about an axis, said rotor having a circular peripheral wall bounding with the internal casing wall a curved peripheral path which increases in cross-section in the direction of rotation;
- (c) said casing having additional internal duct walls bounding a tangential path which communicates with and extends tangentially of the curved peripheral path;
- (d) conveyor blades mounted on the rotor for joint rotation therewith, each blade extending outwardly along a curved path up to the circular peripheral wall of the rotor, each blade having an outer curved tip which extends at least partly along the circular peripheral wall of the rotor;
- (e) drive means operatively connected to the rotor, for rotating the conveyor blades and pushing the vacuum-cooked sugar mass in the chamber in a flow into and along the curved peripheral path and the tangential path to the outlet in a manner resisting crystallization of the sugar mass and changing of said parameters of the sugar mass;
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- (f) gate means at the outlet for adjusting the flow of the sugar mass exiting the tangential path to the machine for manufacturing sweets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.