Installation for treating articles by electron bombardment
AssigneeSerac Group
InventorsRemy Fallet, Delphine Gueguen
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Abstract
An installation for treating articles with radiation, the installation comprising a structure having pivotally mounted thereon an inlet starwheel and an outlet starwheel respectively arranged facing an inlet and an outlet of a shielded enclosure in which there are mounted at least one pivotal treatment starwheel and at least one electron emitter in the vicinity of the treatment starwheel. The installation comprises a linear inlet conveyor and a linear outlet conveyor extending inside the shielded enclosure respectively facing the inlet and the outlet, the linear conveyors each comprising a respective transporter surrounding a shielded wall forming a baffle.
Claims4
An installation for treating articles with radiation, the installation comprising a structure having pivotally mounted thereon an inlet starwheel and an outlet starwheel respectively arranged facing an inlet and an outlet of a shielded enclosure in which there are mounted at least one pivotal treatment starwheel and at least one electron emitter in the vicinity of the treatment starwheel, the starwheels being provided with article-gripper means, the shielded enclosure having internal shielded partitions arranged as baffles, wherein the installation includes at least one linear conveyor extending inside the shielded enclosure facing the inlet or the outlet, the linear conveyor having a transporter extending as an elongate ring around a straight shielded wall extending in a longitudinal direction of a straight portion of the transporter in order to form a baffle, the straight shielded wall facing said inlet or outlet and having a length greater than a width of said inlet or outlet.
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