Continuous Plants with Tray Transport

Preparation room, e.g. freezing, grinding, sieving 2, loading area 3, loading of trays and carriers 4, entrance lock 5, ice condenser  

two-stage vacuum pump set 7, sliding gate valve between tunnel and lock 8, four drying 

return of trays 15, carrier with empty trays. (ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH, 

heating zones 5, tunnel wall 6, lift for the trays 7, exit lock. (Atlas Industries A/S, DK-2750 Ballerup, Denmark). 

In this plant, two trays are pushed in parallel through the tunnel. The two heating systems can be seen and in front of these are the two lifts, which lift the tray to required level. 

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