Method and apparatus for processing vegetable products
OwnerPaolo Gentiliinventor
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Abstract
A method for processing, in a container, a vegetable product containing a solid part suspended in a liquid part, comprises controlling the pressure of a gas in said container for modifying the specific weight of said solid part, so as to prevent said solid part from floating on said liquid part until drying; an apparatus comprises a timing device arranged for opening and/or closing, in a cyclical manner, a venting arrangement comprised in an operating chamber of a vinifying apparatus, so as to alternatively make said operating chamber communicate with an external environment and/or separate said operating chamber from said external environment and consequently decrease and/or increase a pressure of a gas in said operating chamber.
Claims15
Method for processing, in a container, a vegetable product containing a solid part suspended in a liquid part, comprising controlling a pressure of a gas in said container for modifying the specific weight of said solid part, so as to prevent said solid part from floating on said liquid part until drying, wherein said preventing is achieved by increasing said pressure of said gas in said container, said increasing said pressure causing said specific weight of said solid part to be increased to an extent that said solid part is completely immersed into said liquid part, wherein said increase in said specific weight is caused by a contraction of bubbles produced by said gas in said solid part, said contraction being obtained through said increasing said pressure, and wherein said preventing is achieved without having to break said solid part up.
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