STORAGE AND GRANULATION SYSTEM

Abstract

The present invention belongs to the field of household appliances, more particularly to the field of household appliances for storing and sifting tapioca gum so that this gum reaches adequate grain size for the preparation, through mechanical processes as granulation through pressure or extrusion. The invention also brings the advantage of avoiding manual contact with the gum, allowing all the processing of the gum to happen inside a container, as for example a cup, avoiding the entrance of dirt and contaminants, as well as distributing it in a directed way, avoiding the sifted or extruded gum to be spilled out of the frying pan.

Claims

1. THE STORAGE AND GRANULATION SYSTEM comprises a cup (01) built in plastic, glass or another adequate material, through a conformation process that is known and adequate, having at least one of its ends open, characterized by the fact that the superior extremity receives a primary ring (02a), which inter-operates with a second ring (02b), considering that the center of the ring (02b) bears a stem (03) of vertical trajectory in relation to the cup (01), and in the extreme portion of the stem (03) there is at least one fin (04) or spade, conformed in flat, conical or semi-spherical geometry, with solid or hollow construction, immediately disposed above the sieve (05) of compatible geometry with the fin (04) or the spade.

2. THE STORAGE AND GRANULATION SYSTEM, according to the previous claim, is characterized by the fact that there is a lid (06) in the inferior portion of the cup.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0011] The invention will be better described based on the drawings attached, given as an example of a possible way of idealization in which:

[0012] FIG. 01—Represents a side plan view, in section, of the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention;

[0013] FIG. 02—Represents an exploded perspective view of the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention;

[0014] FIG. 03—Represents a side plan view of the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention;

[0015] FIG. 04—Represents a side plan view of the stem set of the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention;

[0016] FIG. 05—Represents a side plan view of the inferior portion of the stem set of the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention;

[0017] FIG. 06—Represents a perspective view of the stem set of the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention;

[0018] FIG. 07—Represents a side plan view of the inferior lid used in the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention;

[0019] FIG. 08—Represents a perspective view of the inferior lid used in the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention.

PREFERRED CONFIGURATION

[0020] Based on the drawings and figures represented above, the present invention comprehends a storage and granulation system, made up of a cup (01), built in plastic or another well known and adequate material through processes of rotomolding, plastic injection, blow molding, or another adequate process for the conformation of plastic material. The cup (01), has its two ends open so that it surrounds the material that is inside it.

[0021] In the superior portion of the cup, (01) a primary plastic ring is assembled (02a), which has a connection to a second ring (02b), which carries in its center, through bearing, a stem (03) of vertical trajectory regarding the cup (01). The bearing of the stem (03) in the secondary ring (02b) allows the stem to have a position that is fixedly mobile, so that it has a degree of mechanical freedom in rotational, axial, radial or pendular directions.

[0022] In the extreme portion of the stem (03), there is at least one fin (04) or, alternatively, spades, which are conformed in semi-spherical geometry, flat or conical, in a way that if there is more than one fin or spade, they are inter-spaced. The fins or spades are immediately above the sieve (05) with compatible geometry to the one of the fins or spades, in a way that the material disposed between the marginal portions of the fins (04) and the sieve is processed through compression, as it will be described later.

[0023] In work stage, the storage and granulation system, object of the present invention, is assembled and receives tapioca gum in its inside in a way that the granules fill particularly the perimeter between the marginal portions of the fins (04) and the sieve (05). Once rotational, axial, radial or pendular movements are applied to the stem (03), the fins compress the material against the sieve, pressing and extruding it by the compression to the external part of the sieve, forming, through gravity, a laminar flow of tapioca granules towards the extreme inferior part of the cup (01).

[0024] The storage and granulation system, object of the present invention, also has a means of retention of the granules while storing, which happens through a lid (06) attached to the inferior portion of the cup (01), more particularly to the perimeter of the sieve (05). In a second assembly way, the lid (06) can be substituted by a flow directing funnel.

[0025] As only two preferential configurations have been described for the storage and granulation system, it is obvious that eventual changes might occur to the disposition of the present invention, especially in the different geometries of the cup and the fins or spades, which can be built in a solid or hollow way, without escaping the scope of one or more claims on the present descriptive report.