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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
May. 16, 2023
L'air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'etude ET L'exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude, Paris, FR;
Helene Gensse, Villers-sur-Fere, FR;
Franck Cousin, Lesquin, FR;
Abstract
Equipment for manufacturing pellets of liquid or pasty products, comprising a tunnel and comprising a conveyor belt capable of transporting the product to be processed in the equipment along a processing path that passes through the various zones of the equipment, wherein the conveyor belt is equipped with unitary moulds, or else unitary moulds are formed in the structure of the conveyor belt, wherein the equipment comprises a pellet demoulding zone situated at the outlet of the tunnel or immediately downstream of the outlet of the tunnel, the demoulding zone operating in a rotation zone of the conveyor, and wherein the structure of the belt allows each pellet to be automatically demoulded by ejection, the ejection being effected by a given element of the structure of the conveyor belt on account of opposing forces being applied to the walls of the mould in the demoulding zone.