DE585973C - Device for thickening sugar solutions - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a device for thickening solutions ^1, in particular sugar solutions, by boiling.

From the well-known cookers, which the property in uninterrupted operation during of the passage through heated pipes can boil · from those filled with sugar solution Cooking tubes remove the vapors and air bubbles that form during cooking do not escape unhindered, but they must - through a part of the not yet fully cooked Good pass through to get to the mouth of the cooking tube. This easily creates steam build-ups in the cooking tube, which from time to time result in thrusting, always undesirably part of the food that has not yet been fully cooked is carried away, so that the food is not always the necessary uniformity in all parts when leaving the cooking line having.

In addition, the degree of cooking and the quality of the boiled sugar solution also depends on the even pumping of the well-known sugar pump. With the peculiarity of the sugar solution it fails more easily than others who do not work under such difficult conditions Pump. If this results in the goods being temporarily longer than necessary or too short a time If the cooking tubes are exposed to heat, the texture cannot be uniform expect the food to be cooked. Likewise, the food burns or encrusts in the cooking tubes, if the heating medium supply does not turn off automatically in the event of an unnoticed failure of the feed pump.

The cooking device according to the invention avoids such difficulties by that under one the sugar solution delivering continuous controllable layer thickness Container one or more heated discharge tables or channels connected in series are arranged, which may be used as sheet-like conveying devices such. B. steadily progressive endless conveyor belts, designed and for the purpose of change the cooking path and the cooking time are mounted displaceably and lockable, wherein expediently the heating medium supply according to the invention from a balance beam of a flow regulator to be explained later for the mass is regulated.

In the drawing, embodiments of the invention are shown, namely shows

Fig. Ι a front view of the device, partially in section,

Fig. 2 Fixed, alternately funnel-shaped and conical-shaped, partially nested Cooking surfaces,

Fig. 3 Step-like cooking surfaces arranged in a zigzag.

The dissolved sugar mass passes through a sieve into the storage container a. The underlying dispensing container b rests on one side rocking on the cutting edge c and is also

supported approximately in the middle by a balance beam d equipped with an adjustable and lockable counterweight. The dispensing container fills up automatically from the storage container α to the same extent as the sugar solution flows out of the outlet opening e, which can be regulated by an adjustable slide g, and is discharged onto the heated discharge table h by

ίο when the inlet device becomes lighter or heavier, the regulating valve / of the storage container α opens or closes accordingly. The material therefore flows steadily down in a thin, wide layer required for rapid, uninhibited evaporation, evenly onto the heated, stationary or movable cooking surfaces h or h ¹ . The feed point i, during the Ko ₁ -, Chen, corresponding to the respectively desired degree of cooking or the required cooking time, to be laid characterized in that the cooking surface or the feed device moves against each other. Instead of stepped, stationary (cf.

Fig. 3) choose moving surfaces in belt (Fig. 1), roller, disc or similar shape, as the latter can clean themselves during their movement by heated scrapers k (Fig. 1). The heating medium supply for the z. B. box-shaped heater I is gradually throttled automatically through the intermediary of a linkage connecting the balance beam d to the valve m when the flow of sugar solution stops, and completely interrupted when there is no more good on the cooking surfaces.

Claims (5)

Patent claims: r. Device for thickening solutions, especially sugar solutions, by cooking, characterized in that the sugar solution is steady under one and a container dispensing in an adjustable layer thickness, optionally as an endless one sheet-like conveyor device trained, heated, channel-like discharge table is arranged. 2. Cooking device nach.Anspruch 1, characterized in that the discharge table receiving the solution in a thin layer is designed as an endless, steadily progressing, heated conveyor belt (A ₁ ) with which a scraper (k) which decreases the finished cooked mass cooperates at its reversal point . 3. Cooking device according to claims ι and 2, characterized in that the optionally horizontally arranged conveyor belt (Ji) in its entirety or the inclined fixed discharge table or other continuously rotating planar conveyor device for the purpose of changing the cooking path and the cooking time horizontally displaceable and lockable is stored. 4. Cooking device according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that several discharge tables or ^{conveyors r} devices, for. B. conveyor belts are connected in series. 5. Cooking device according to claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the dispensing container (b) for the sugar solution is mounted on one side on a cutting edge (c), and its weight, including the weight of the required for the desired layer thickness, must be kept constantly at the same level Mass content is balanced by a balance beam (oil) equipped with a sliding and lockable counterweight, the end of which is connected by a rod to the valve (m) for the heating medium supply, and that also the bottom surface of the dispensing container (b) with the downward rod of the outflow valve (f) of a second mass container fixedly mounted above the dispensing container (b) in the machine frame cooperates in the sense of a flow regulator. For this purpose ι sheet of drawings