Improved Process of and Apparatus for Drying Condensed Milk and Mixtures of Condensed Milk with Cocoa, Coffee and the like.

摘要

7152. Vouga, M. June 12, 1911, [Convention date]. Film evaporators.-Condensed milk alone or in admixture with coffee, cocoa, &c., is divided into freely depending sheets, threads, tubes, or the like by forcing it through a grating, sieve, or the like, and is dried by currents of air moving in the same direction as the sheets &c. The grating is composed of hollow bars f arranged to leave slots e, through which the milk is forced, the resulting sheets being dried by currents of hot air entering through slits g in the underside of the bars f. The moistureladen air escapes by apertures i. The dried sheets are broken up by a rotary beater l, and the products are directed into containers o, in which a final heating or cooling may be effected bv passing hot or cold air through a rotary drum p, having an insulating coating q of wood or the like and fitted with stirring-arms r.