Pasteurizer
AssigneeAli S.P.A.—Carpigiani Group
InventorsGino Cocchi, Romano Verardi
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Abstract
Pasteurizer for food products comprising a tank provided with agitator means connected to actuating means, characterized in that said tank has on the bottom a chamber cavity in which said agitator means are accommodated, said chamber being provided on the bottom with a hole which faces, towards the inside of the chamber, the internal cavity of a cylindrical sleeve projecting inside the chamber and fixed thereto, and, towards the outside, the actuating means, said agitator means being provided with a movement transmission shaft which, inserted in the cavity of the sleeve and through the hole on the bottom of the chamber, is coupled to the actuating means, said internal cavity of the sleeve being provided with fluid sealing means.
Claims11
A pasteurizer for food products comprising a tank having a side wall and a bottom wall;
- a chamber cavity on the bottom wall of said tank;
- said chamber cavity being in communication with said tank;
- said chamber cavity being provided at its bottom with a hole;
- a cylindrical sleeve tightly secured by its lower end to the bottom of said cavity;
- said sleeve surrounding said hole and extending from the bottom of said cavity up to in proximity of the upper end of said cavity;
- said cylindrical sleeve being provided at its upper end with sealing elements;
- a shaft rotatably extending from said hole in the bottom of said cavity through said sleeve and through said sealing elements up to the upper end of said cavity;
- actuating means coupled to the lower end of said shaft projecting from said hole for rotating said shaft;
- agitator means secured to the upper end of said sleeve projecting outwardly through said sealing elements;
- said agitator means extending into said cavity chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.