Spinach Portioning Solutions – Blanched – Cooled Spinach

Is a mechanical machine completely electronically cotrolled, and it’s partical design and composition is the real added value for the final utiliser, due the impossibility to contaminate the product, and to the “made easy operation – functioning & easy clean design”.

Machine completely in stainless steel.

Machine complete with adjustable feets for a correct aligment/levelling and positioning;

Feeling hopper mirror polished complete level control system, washing nozzle

    Feeding hopper is positioned on railways guides for easy machine opening, cleaning operation and accessibility;

Pressing and forming station:

    Design to have and easy change over parts (male and female mould);

    Mould (male and female) made in special alimentary plastic material.

    Cutting/scraping knife self adjustable and pneumatically controlled.;

    Pressing power adjustable in accordance to product;

Safety protections:

    Accessible lateral doors with safety switches;

    All openable parts are protected with safety switches;

“brushless” motor – linear actuator: “EASYCUBE” is equipped with 4 “brushless” motor – linear actuators properly sized and selected in accordance to the specific application.

This type of solution and the control system allow having constantly and continuously the position of the actuator under control, on each specific motors, and particularly:

    Pushing power needed to reach the right position and the time needed:

    Speed and acceleration of each linear actuator;

    Constant control of the absorbed power on each single actuator with the possibility to optimise and adjust the pushing action;

    Logic for the continuous supervision system of the 4 actuators controls

    Logic for the continuous control for the pressure on the product, on the mould finalised to the correct mould filling of product.

    Collecting conveyor belt for portion collection, in alimentary plastic material, with wide free passage to facilitate the de-watering sequence and/or pre-glazing treatment and also last manual inspection by the operator.

Control panel: in stainless steel AISI 304 IP65, complete with:

    PLC “Touch Screen”;

Usually is complete with one mould made in accordance with Customer needs.

CONTINUOUS GREEN WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM

This allow to recover the “green water” with spinach properties, passing to a filtering system, and having the possibility to add back this water into the portion, before freezing or after as glazing water.

INJECTION SYSTEM INTO PORTIONS FOR INSIDE GLAZING OPERATION

Earlier filtered water could be injected into portion for inside glazing with same “green water”.

Average for earning in weight: between 5 up to 10% (this is a media value valid for almost each portion)

GREEN WATER COOLING SYSTEM

This system is designed for keep cold the earlier filtered “green water” to better control the micro biologic conditions, to improve the water quality, and to provide better condition for the next usages of the same water.

GREEN WATER ICING SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS IN-FEED PRODUCT PRE-COOLING

This system has been studied in order to recover totally the water coming out from the spinach due to the pressing action of the forming unit, having as result the maximum yield; to give back into the product the same water, who’s having the same spinach properties “salts, fibres, etc” and to cool down the product coming from the line.

This solution allow to process 100% of the spinach flow, by producing green ice which has to be mixed – added into the main product flow directly into the feeding conveyor-elevator to cool it down before arriving in the forming station.

The final scope is to produce portions with higher

    “green” water content;

    better quality product, by adding the “green water”;

    improving the freezing running cycle of the freezer, by feeding colder products;

    relative saving into the energy consumption;

    etc.