Abstract: The invention relates to a method of drying a material, that includes the steps of: providing a gaseous atmosphere with superheated steam in a housing, transporting a material into the housing, and drying the material in the gaseous atmosphere. Thereafter, transporting the dried material out of the housing and extracting from the gaseous atmosphere volatile substances which escape from the material into the gaseous atmosphere, especially flavors. The invention is also direct to an apparatus for drying the extruded material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of drying a material, that includes the steps of: providing a gaseous atmosphere with superheated steam in a housing, transporting a material into the housing, and drying the material in the gaseous atmosphere. Thereafter, transporting the dried material out of the housing and extracting from the gaseous atmosphere volatile substances which escape from the material into the gaseous atmosphere, especially flavors. The invention is also direct to an apparatus for drying the extruded material.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying a material is provided. The apparatus comprises a housing, a superheated steam generator, inlet and outlet ports disposed relative to the housing and an extraction unit for extracting volatile substances from the atmosphere within the housing.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a packed product includes the steps of: a) bringing a product into a superheated steam atmosphere with an O2 content of maximum 10 vol.-%, a pressure of between 950 mbar and 1100 mbar and a temperature of minimum 100° C., b) making available a packing container in the steam atmosphere and filling the packing container with a predetermined quantity of the product, wherein a residual volume of the packing container not filled with product is filled with the steam atmosphere, c) replacing at least 50% of the residual volume of steam atmosphere in the packing container by a sterile inert gas, d) sealing the packing container, and e) cooling the packing container and the product contained therein to a temperature of between 10° C. and 25° C.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying a material is provided. The apparatus comprises a housing, a superheated steam generator, inlet and outlet ports disposed relative to the housing and an extraction unit for extracting volatile substances from the atmosphere within the housing.

Abstract: Method of producing a packed food product, comprising: cooking a food product at a cooking temperature of at least 100° C., introducing the cooked food product into an atmosphere of superheated steam, the atmosphere of superheated steam containing less than 3% of oxygen and having a temperature of at least 120° C., drying the food product to an aw-value in the range from 0.70 to 0.92, in the superheated steam atmosphere, packaging the food product in a packaging container and hermetically sealing the packaging container, and food product packed in a packaging impermeable to O2, obtainable by a method of any of the preceding claims, wherein the food product has an aw-value in the range from 0.70 to 0.92.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of drying a material, that includes the steps of: providing a gaseous atmosphere with superheated steam in a housing, transporting a material into the housing, and drying the material in the gaseous atmosphere. Thereafter, transporting the dried material out of the housing and extracting from the gaseous atmosphere volatile substances which escape from the material into the gaseous atmosphere, especially flavors. The invention is also direct to an apparatus for drying the extruded material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multipart chain fixing device for securing at least one conveyor chain on a trough element of especially an underground scraper chain conveyor. The fixing device comprises a bridge part (60), which has a bridge bar (62) that at least partially overlaps the conveyor chain in a positive-locking manner and ends in two lateral side end portions (61). It also comprises two side parts (70), which are fastenable to the trough element pan and to which the side end portions 61 are releasably securable by positive-locking means. For providing a chain fixing device, inclusive of the associated trough element and the individual components, which offer increased safety in underground usage, combined with simple assembly, the side parts (70) are releasably fastenable in a positive-locking manner in cavities in the conveyor floor of the trough element.

Abstract: A support structure for drive or reversing stations of conveyor or extraction devices in underground mining is described. The support structure has a substructure and an articulated support which may be configured to be vertically adjustable relative thereto by means of a lifting device. At least one spacer element is provided which is configured to be installed between the substructure and the articulated support. A lifting device has two pairs of lifting cylinders whose lifting cylinders are arranged diagonally opposite one another in corner areas of the articulated support and can be actuated in pairs, and that as the spacer element for a lifting stage at least four, preferably six, distance members are provided of which two in each case are placeable in pairs underneath the pair of lifting cylinders which is not loaded during a lifting process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of drying an extruded material that includes the steps of: providing a gaseous atmosphere with superheated steam in a housing, extruding a material in the housing, drying the material in the gaseous atmosphere, and moving the dried material out of the housing. An apparatus for drying the extruded material is also provided.

Abstract: An extrusion and conditioning apparatus, with an extruder in a conveying position, leads into a conveyor housing connected in a sealed manner to a pneumatic supply line and to a pneumatic conveyor line in which extruded material can be removed pneumatically, by means of superheated steam, via the conveyor line. The extruder can be moved from the conveying position into a bypass position, in which the extruder leads to the exterior of the conveyor housing, having a means for sealing the supply and conveyor lines and the conveyor housing from the surroundings when the extruder is in the conveying and bypass positions.

Abstract: A pan section for combined conveying and winning apparatuses having a bottom run and a top run for guiding driver elements of a conveyor chain, as well as a welded frame structure which has two side cheeks which consist of one-piece rolled profiles. The rolled profiles have a constant profile shape with a bottom leg and a top leg, which are angled outwards in the assembled state, and an intermediate leg being provided with an offset for supporting and welding at least one intermediate plate. The pan section further includes a substructure connected to the bottom leg of the rolled profiles to connect both bottom legs to one another at a distance from the intermediate bottom. The substructure also has mounting pieces positioned at the ends below the bottom legs for transverse-force transmission means.

Abstract: A method for deep-frying foods in which the foods to be deep-fried are delivered to hot oil or fat and transported out of the hot oil after a predetermined residence time, wherein a steam zone with superheated steam is generated above a free surface of the oil, which shields the oil from the ambient air, and from which a flow of steam corresponding to an amount of water evaporating from the deep-fried foods is withdrawn.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multipart chain fixing device for securing at least one conveyor chain on a trough element of especially an underground scraper chain conveyor. The fixing device comprises a bridge part (60), which has a bridge bar (62) that at least partially overlaps the conveyor chain in a positive-locking manner and ends in two lateral side end portions (61). It also comprises two side parts (70), which are fastenable to the trough element pan and to which the side end portions 61 are releasably securable by positive-locking means. For providing a chain fixing device, inclusive of the associated trough element and the individual components, which offer increased safety in underground usage, combined with simple assembly, the side parts (70) are releasably fastenable in a positive-locking manner in cavities in the conveyor floor of the trough element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for packing a material in a packing container. The method includes the steps of providing a gaseous atmosphere with superheated steam in a housing; supplying a material to the gaseous atmosphere and delivering a packing container to the gaseous atmosphere. Thereafter, the material is filled into the packing container, the packing container is sealed inside the gaseous atmosphere, and filled packing container is moved out of the gaseous atmosphere.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a connection between an electric or electronic appliance and a cable is described and which includes magnetic elements which produce both a holding force, and at the same time, provide approximate guidance, and exact centering so as to reliably avoid electric shorts and insure correct contact-making, between the electric or electronic appliance and the cable.

Abstract: A conveyor pan for a mining conveyor having a substructure with two side elements and an intermediate floor as well as a changeable trough forming a top strand and being detachably and exchangeably fastenable to the substructure. The trough having side profiles, each with a top web, and the top strand fastening means including screw bolts being fixable in place on the substructure. In order to ease an exchange of the trough, at least the top web of one side profile is provided with a plurality of open-edged indentations, in which there are welded holding strips, which project laterally over the top web and are provided with a plurality of bolt holes for the passage of a plurality of screw bolts.

Abstract: A method for deep-frying foods in which the foods to be deep-fried are delivered to hot oil or fat and transported out of the hot oil after a predetermined residence time, wherein a steam zone with superheated steam is generated above a free surface of the oil, which shields the oil from the ambient air, and from which a flow of steam corresponding to an amount of water evaporating from the deep-fried foods is withdrawn.

Abstract: An extrusion and conditioning apparatus, with an extruder in a conveying position, leads into a conveyor housing connected in a sealed manner to a pneumatic supply line and to a pneumatic conveyor line in which extruded material can be removed pneumatically, by means of superheated steam, via the conveyor line. The extruder can be moved from the conveying position into a bypass position, in which the extruder leads to the exterior of the conveyor housing, having a means for sealing the supply and conveyor lines and the conveyor housing from the surroundings when the extruder is in the conveying and bypass positions.

Abstract: A rack arrangement for underground winning installations having bearing brackets being fastenable at pan sections of a face conveyor and which have two pin holes each, and having rack bars being detachably fastenable to the pin holes of adjacent bearing brackets via pin connections having connecting pins. In order to design the rack arrangement and the bearing bracket for easier fitting and to improve the interplay between bearing bracket and rack bars in operational use, both pin holes are designed as an elongated hole for accommodating the connecting pin 7.