Apparatus and method for treating a product, for example a food product, and relative plant
AssigneePavan S.P.A.
InventorsSimone Bertoncello, Luciano Mondardini, Sandro Rasera
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Abstract
An apparatus for treating a product comprises movement means able to move the product in a direction of feed through at least a treatment sector, the treatment being temporally defined by a predetermined duration. The movement means comprise at least a conveyor belt closed in a ring that supports the product and extends along a path between an entrance and an exit of the treatment sector. The conveyor belt is at least partly made of flexible material and is able to be disposed along the path in a plurality of loops, which develop in a direction substantially transverse with respect to the direction of advance, so that the product follows the loops along the path.
Claims12
An apparatus for treating a product including one of pasta, fabric, plastic or other of a long and continuous shape, comprising at least a conveyor belt closed in a ring and able to move the product in a direction of feed in sequence through at least a treatment sector associated upstream with a first sector and downstream with a second sector,
- wherein said conveyor belt is at least partly made of flexible material, and
- wherein said conveyor belt is associated with at least two distinct transport systems,
- a first transport system being disposed at least in correspondence with one of either said first sector, or upstream sector, and said second sector, or downstream sector, and a second transport system being disposed in correspondence with said treatment sector,
- a plurality of bars disposed transverse to the direction of feed rendering said conveyor belt solid with the relative transport system, and
- wherein the positioning pitch (p2) of said bars on said second transport system is less than the positioning pitch (p1) of the bars on said first transport system, to automatically create a plurality of loops on said conveyor belt, of a depth correlated to said pitch (p2), in correspondence with said treatment sector, and wherein the first and the second transport system each comprise two adjacent chains which bear teeth suitable to support and position the transverse bars in relation to the respective pitches (p1) and (p2).
An apparatus for treating a product including one of pasta, fabric, plastic or other of a long and continuous shape, comprising at least a conveyor belt closed in a ring and able to move the product in a direction of feed in sequence through at least a treatment sector associated upstream with a first sector and downstream with a second sector,
- wherein said conveyor belt is at least partly made of flexible material, and
- wherein said conveyor belt is associated with at least two distinct transport systems,
- a first transport system being disposed at least in correspondence with one of either said first sector or u s stream sector and said second sector or downstream sector and a second transport system being disposed in correspondence with said treatment sector,
- a plurality of bars disposed transverse to the direction of feed rendering said conveyor belt solid with the relative transport system, and
- wherein the positioning pitch (p2) of said bars on said second transport system is less than the positioning pitch (p1) of the bars on said first transport system, to automatically create a plurality of loops on said conveyor belt, of a depth correlated to said pitch (p2), in correspondence with said treatment sector, wherein between the first transport system and the second transport system there are first translation means of the transverse bars which pick up, from the first transport system, the transverse bars distanced with pitch (p1), and deposit them on the second transport system with pitch (p2).
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