摘要 |
Press for pressing chocolate liquor (cocoa mass), comprising: - a multiplicity of tanks (V) arranged in a row which determine the particular feed amounts of the chocolate liquor to be pressed, - apparatuses (6) for reducing these amounts during the pressing operation by the release of cocoa butter until cocoa oil cakes (press cakes) are obtained and until the tanks (V) are opened during the following unloading phase with subsequent fall of the oil cakes from the tanks (V) along a principally vertically running path, and - collection apparatuses (9) for the oil cakes lying beneath the tanks (V), - and a protective shield (10) mounted beneath the tanks (V) and above the collection apparatuses (9) for the oil cakes; this protective shield (10) being movable at least by a part (13) between a position matching the principally vertical path which is used during the pressing phase and a position of detachment from the principally vertical path during the unloading phase, in order to enable the fall of the oil cakes from the tanks (V) onto the collection apparatuses (9). <IMAGE>
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