Vertical basket press

In the North Coast, four basic types of presses are used horizontal basket presses, vertical basket presses, bladder presses, and continuous presses. They... 

The design of horizontal basket presses has major advantages over the earlier vertical basket presses. 

Equipment used in pressing has shown considerable change in the last twenty years. Until 1960, most red pomace was pressed in vertical hydraulic basket presses. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Willmes-type pneumatic horizontal bag press as well as horizontal screw presses became popular. These were batch process operations. More recently, horizontal continuous screw presses preceded by an inclined dejuicer have appeared in the North Coast and will probably increase in popularity. They are designed to separate automatically different grades of press juice (Figure 5). 

Company ownership Private company Type of company Specialist engineering company Other main businesses Vertical basket centrifuges, belt press filters Other company connections None... 

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