US3849255A - Device for germinating and drying malt - Google Patents

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US3849255A
US3849255A US00245514A US24551472A US3849255A US 3849255 A US3849255 A US 3849255A US 00245514 A US00245514 A US 00245514A US 24551472 A US24551472 A US 24551472A US 3849255 A US3849255 A US 3849255A
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    • C12—BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • C12C—BEER; PREPARATION OF BEER BY FERMENTATION; PREPARATION OF MALT FOR MAKING BEER; PREPARATION OF HOPS FOR MAKING BEER
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  • the circum- [211 App! 245,514 ferential wall of the stack is provided with adjustable ducts for the passage of drying air coming from a [30] Foreign Application Priority Data blower arranged in the stack and is conducted into the May 3, 1971 Germany 2121586 working chambers.
  • Side stacks are arranged side by side and on the outside of the vertical stack and some [52] US. Cl. 195/129 have ducts which connect some of the adjacent side [51] Int. Cl.
  • the invention relates to a device for the germination and drying of malt on several superimposed rack structures arranged to be rotatable about a vertical hollow shaft or stack.
  • Devices of this type have the advantage of being capable of processing a plurality of charges found in different processing stages in a single towerlike structure of small floor space.
  • the air conducting stacks are arranged side by side and are repeatedly connected with each other by ducts and serve for the airflow, while other of said side by side stacks contain conveyors or drives for germinating air and malt, respectively, whereby at least one vertical side stack is divided into superimposed chambers with intermediary floors, each of which supports a blower serving for the germinating process.
  • upper chambers above the intermediary floors are provided with ducts which discharge air above the rack structures to the adjacent upper working chambers, and ducts leading to at least one air-guiding side stack, while lower blowerchambers disposed below the intermediary floors lead to the adjacent lower-working chambers and have ducts discharging air under the rack structures, ahead of air-processers.
  • a further side stack which also may be divided into superimposed chambers may be so arranged as to receive the drive means for turn-over devices, for a vertically movable loadinganddischarging-worm and for rotating the rack structures.
  • FIG. 1 shows a vertical sectional view along the broken line II of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 2 shows a vertical sectional view along the line 11-11 of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 3 is a horizontal sectional view along the broken line lII-III of FIG. 1, and
  • FIG. 4 shows diagrammatically four superimposed operating chambers A to D and serves for the explanation of some possible processing procedures.
  • the device is provided with a circular basic chamber 1 having a central cylindrical stack 7 with a blower chamber 10 at the bottom thereof with a drying air channel 8 at one side of said stack.
  • a circular basic chamber 1 having a central cylindrical stack 7 with a blower chamber 10 at the bottom thereof with a drying air channel 8 at one side of said stack.
  • the chamber 1 are a plurality of superimposed working chambers.
  • Each of said working chambers is divided by a circular rack structure 13 for the malt.
  • the drying rack provides each chamber into an upper chamber 12 and a lower chamber 11.
  • the blower chamber 10 has a blower 14 in the bottom thereof.
  • inlet side of said blower is connected with the dryingair-channel 8, a plurality of fuel nozzles 15 arranged along the floor of said drying-air channel 8 for heating the air therein and supplying heated air to the blower 14.
  • the wall of the stack 7 hasducts 18 leading to lower working chambers 11.
  • the ducts 18 are closable by doors 17.
  • In the air stack 7 is located a vertically movable floor 16, disposed above those ducts 18 through which drying air in each case is to be conducted into the respective chambers 11-.
  • Adjacent the basic chamber 1, 8 and the working chambers ll, 12 are arranged several vertical stacks 2, 3, 4,- 5 and 6. Of these, the stacks 2 and 4 are used for additional air, while the stack 5 is used for circulating dryer air.
  • the vertical stack 3 is divided vertically in the same degree as the working chambers 11, 12 are present, namely into aerating upper chambers 31 and into aerating-lower chambers 32. Between the same are arranged the germinating air conveyor 33, which may feed air from the upper chambers 31 into the lower chambers 32.
  • the aerating upper chambers 31 have ducts 19 leading to the upper chambers 12, ducts 20 leading to the supplemental air stack 2, ducts 21 leading to the supplemental stack 4 and ducts 22 leading to the outside.
  • the aerating lower chambers 32 have ducts 23 leading to the lower working chambers 11, ahead of which are arranged the air processers 34. In these, the germinating air is adjusted as regards temperature, moisture and, if need be, also the pressure is adjusted.
  • the auxiliary stack 2, which preferably is not divided, isprovided with ducts 24 leading into the upper working chambers 12 and also has ducts 25 leading into the lower working chambers 11.
  • the air stack 4 hascorresponding ducts. In both stacks 2 and 4 for supplemental air may be arranged vertically movable floors similar to the floor 16 in the shaft 7 for the drying air, in order to increase the operating possibilities.
  • Adjacent the vertical stack 4 for supplemental air is arranged the vertical stack 5 for the circulating drying air.
  • the stack 5 has ducts 26 leading to the upper working chamber 12 and discharges below through the duct 28 into the channel 8 for drying air.
  • a channel 9 for fresh air used for drying is connected. by an duct 29 with the channel 8, ahead of which is arranged a condenser 35, through which may be drawn the fresh air and, in which water is precipitated in cooling devices, for example for the air processer 34.
  • the upper working chambers 12 have ducts 30, leading to the outside. The cross-section of all of the ducts 18 to 30 may be adjusted, for example by means of louvers or shutters, as indicated each by a dotted line.
  • the vertical stack 6 has mounted therein the drive motors 36 for the turn-over devices 37, the drive motors 38 for rotating the circular rack structures 13, the details of which have not been shown, because they are of conventional construction, as well as the drive motors 39 for the loadingand discharge worms 40, which may be moved vertically.
  • the vertical stack 6 is divided according to the number of the superimposed circular rack structures 13.
  • the vertical stack 6 also contains the conduits 41 for the loading and conduits 42 for the unloading and discharging of the processed material.
  • Each annular rack structure 13 may be driven individually, and each is provided with a turn-overdevice 37 and a loadingand discharge-worm 40.
  • the basic chamber 1 may contain the control devices work-places and conveyors, for example the discharger for the unload-conduit 42.
  • the stack 5 for the circulating drying air may in case of necessity be subdivided by a wall 43 indicated by dash-dotted lines.
  • Stage A illustrates the germination operation with circulating air, air admission and air exhaust air toward stage B.
  • the germination airconveyer 33 draws fresh air along the path m (duct 22 in FIG. 2) 'into the upper aeration chamber 31 and presses it from there along the path n through the lower aeration chamber 32 through the germinationair-processer 34 into the lower working chamber 11 (duct 23, FIG. 1).
  • the air conditioned in the germinating air processer 34 penetrates the circular rack structure 13 and returns partially in air circulating operation along the path q (duct 19 in FIG. 1) into the upper aeration chamber3l, in order to be turned over anew.
  • stage C the drying operation is carried out.
  • the vertically movable floor 16 is brought to the level of the corresponding circular rack 13, so that the hot air coming from the blower 14 is conducted along the path a into the air stack 7 and from-here (through ducts 18 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2) flows along the path b into the chamber below the circular rack 13.
  • the air then flows partially back along the paths 0, d through the air circulating shaft 5 and along the path f to the blower 14, whereby along the path e, fresh air may be added which is drawn in by the condenser 35.
  • stage C Another part of the exhaust air coming from stage C flows over the circular rack 13 along the path g and h through the supplemental air stack 4 to the stage D, where it is drawn partially from the germinating air conveyer 33 along the path x. On the other hand, it may reach along the path y into a chimney and into the atmosphere. Furthermore, at the stage D, is performed as already described, a germinating operation with circulating air along the paths i,j and l, with supplemental air along the paths h and x as well as with exhaust air along the paths i,j and k.
  • the described possibilities illustrate only a small selection and show how a device according to the invention may use the heat still present in the drying exhaust air for the purpose of germinating air having a particular condition, and to carry out several processes arranged in parallel and partly connected consecutively. This amounts to an important increase in economy, to a good operation and a favorable maintenance of the installation.
  • the multiple use, possibly appearing as a disadvantage, of the germinating air conveyor 33 and the germinating air processer 34, which make possible the individual working of each stage, is more than compensated for.
  • a basic chamber having a generally cylindrical wall
  • air circulating means disposed outside of said working chambers and having communication with said air outlet ducts leading from said air outlet chambers for withdrawing spent air therefrom,
  • conveyor means in each working chamber above the associated rack for conveying malt thereonto
  • malt turnover means adjacent said conveyor means for turning over the malt on each rack
  • said racks being mounted for turning movement about said working chambers and turning thereabout during drying and germinating of the malt and being individually driven and accommodating the circulation of air therethrough.
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US4350588A (en) * 1980-08-14 1982-09-21 Junjiro Tsubota Biological fermentation device
US5181454A (en) * 1990-03-30 1993-01-26 Seeger Industrial S.A. System for decanting material in tower-type malthouses
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