DEVICE FOR VACUUM DRYING Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC F26B11/02 F26B5/04 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: device comprises vacuum drying chamber mounted for permitting rotation and provided with heat jacket, vacuum pump connected with the chamber, shelves partially filled with milling bodies, cylindrical grate interposed between the free ends of the shelves, and collector for finished product freely suspended on the axle of the grate. The device also has bed provided with the drive for rotating the chamber, ring guides secured to the outer cylindrical surface of the heat jacket and bearing on the rollers of the drive for rotating the chamber, heaters, thermocouples mounted in the space of the heat jacket, branch pipe and valve for sucking air, branch pipe and valve for supplying heat agent to the heat jacket, and branch pipe and valve for discharging vapor from the heat jacket.

EFFECT: enhanced efficiency and reduced power consumption.

1 cl, 2 dwg