DIFFUSION APPARATUS OF CONTINUOUS ACTION Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC C13B10/10 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: continuous diffusion apparatus is an inclined housing with a screw conveyor. In the upper part of the apparatus there are devices for pulp unloading and hot solvent feeding in a counter current to the chips movement, and in the lower part - devices for chips feeding into the apparatus with an upwardly extending vertical section, in the upper part of which there is a device for hot juice returning and a strainer for effusion juice a discharge after chips scalding. At that, the strainer is made in the form of a package consisting of an even number of rectangular plates. Plates are installed with an ability to move around the perimeter of the strainer circumference to adjust the size of gaps between them. Also, the strainer is provided with an adjustable nozzle device for periodical flushing of these slits.

EFFECT: invention allows to adjust the gap in the strainer, depending on the raw material quality and, thus, does not disrupt the operation of the diffusion apparatus.

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