Patent EP-2258825-A2 (EP)
Inventor: JULIEN DENIS
IPC: C12C1/15
Filed: 2010-06-03
Abstract: The germinator comprises a germination tank (1) with a raised floor (3) and side walls (5, 7) surrounding the raised floor, and a device for discharging grains. The discharging device comprises a first conveying member having a worm screw for the grains, a second conveying member laid under the controllable tilting portion, and a third conveying member of grain arranged under the additional controllable tilting portion. The raised floor has a controllable tilting portion (19) partially placed beneath the worm screw of the first conveying member, and an additional controllable tilting portion. The germinator comprises a germination tank (1) with a raised floor (3) and side walls (5, 7) surrounding the raised floor, and a device for discharging grains. The discharging device comprises a first conveying member having a worm screw for the grains, a second conveying member laid under the controllable tilting portion, and a third conveying member of grain arranged under the additional controllable tilting portion. The raised floor has a controllable tilting portion (19) partially placed beneath the worm screw of the first conveying member, and an additional controllable tilting portion arranged along one of the side walls. The first conveying member is in variable positioning with respect to the germination tank, and supported with possibility of sliding with respect to the germination tub. The raised floor is rectangular in shape in which the worm screw of the first conveying member is arranged along a transverse direction of the raised floor and one of controllable tilting portions is adjacent to a sidewall of the germination tub. The raised floor comprises floor elements forming slabs (11), where each controllable tilting portion is shaped into a floor slab. Each controllable tilting portion is connected to a fixed portion of the raised floor using an operable pivoting unit comprising a controllable operating cylinder, a pivot link between the controllable tilting portion and a fixed part of raised floor and a connecting rod mounted between an actuator and the controllable tilting portion. The second conveying member and the third conveying member are integrally accommodated in a case in aerodynamic shape. The case is profiled against a stream of air to be blown under the raised floor and the length of the raised floor. The first conveying member comprises a worm screw, which is suspended at a crane by a structure of lockable pantograph. The lockable pantograph structure comprises two articulated arms each fixed with possibility of pivoting at the ends with the crane of a part and with the worm screw of other part. A member is used for turning grain, extends vertically from the floor to a movable suspension structure with respect to the tank. The germination tank has rectangular shape, in which the grain turning member has worm screws equally spaced on the entire width of the germination tank. The transverse side walls of the germination tank have respective niches arranged to partially accommodate each of the worm screw, in which one of the controllable tilting portion is arranged under each niche.