Goods & Services

Agricultural and horticultural products; fresh fruits and vegetables; seeds; natural plants.

Abstract

A system for recovering liquid from a liquid associated comestibles or liquid associated comestible pieces on a comestible processing line; where the system uses apparatus that comprises or includes: plural perforate rotatable bowls, each bowl with a pluggable gravity discharge opening for the comestible and each bowl with an opening to allow loading of the bowl with the liquid associated comestible from above, a collection arrangement for the bowls, or each bowl, whereby liquid centrifugally and/or gravitationally leaving each bowl, at least when each bowl is plug closed and rotating, is recovered, and a comestible receiving arrangement as part of the processing line for the comestible from each bowl. The apparatus is operated such that infeed(s) of the comestible with its associated liquid into the bowls are staggered, bowl by bowl, by at least one infeed arrangement.

IPC Classes  ?

• A23B 7/158 - Apparatus for preserving using liquids
• A23N 12/06 - Machines for cleaning, blanching, drying or roasting fruits or vegetables, e.g. coffee, cocoa, nuts for washing or blanching, combined with subsequent drying
• B04B 11/06 - Arrangement of distributors or collectors in centrifuges
• A23B 7/153 - Preserving or ripening with chemicals not covered by group or in the form of liquids or solids
• B04B 7/08 - Rotary bowls
• F26B 5/08 - Drying solid materials or objects by processes not involving the application of heat by centrifugal treatment