High-capacity physical and/or chemical treatment apparatus in an automatic product production plant

A high-capacity product treatment apparatus for use in an automatic product production plant;

• said apparatus comprising a first horizontal feed conveyor, a tunnel and a second horizontal discharge conveyor;
• said first horizontal feed conveyor feeds into said tunnel a plurality of modular supports;
• said second horizontal discharge conveyor carries from said tunnel the modular supports;
• said modular supports carry the products;
• a vertical support arrangement device being positioned within said tunnel adjacent said first horizontal feed conveyor for intercepting a number of modular supports and arranging each of the modular supports into spaced vertical alignment with another of the modular supports to form a group of modular supports;
• at least one cylindrical rotary storage container being positioned adjacent said vertical support arrangement device and said second horizontal discharge conveyor;
• said at least one cylindrical rotary storage container being divided into radial sectors;
• each radial sector having a plurality of parallel guides positioned in a superposed plane with the group of modular supports carried by said vertical support arrangement device;
• a first pusher device being positioned adjacent said vertical support arrangement device, said first pusher device causing movement of the group of modular supports from said vertical support arrangement device onto said at least one cylindrical rotary storage device;
• a vertical support rearranging device being positioned adjacent said at least one cylindrical rotary device and said second horizontal discharge conveyor;
• said at least one cylindrical rotary storage device being rotatable to bring one of the groups of modular supports into superposed position with said vertical support rearranging device;
• a second pusher device positioned adjacent said at least one cylindrical rotary storage device;
• said second pusher device moving a group of modular supports from said at least one cylindrical storage device onto said vertical support rearranging device;
• said vertical support rearranging device moving the group of modular support into contact with said second horizontal discharge conveyor whereby individual modular supports of the group are discharged in succession onto said second horizontal discharge conveyor and exited from said tunnel.