Patent ID: 8316556

Claim:
An installation for dehydrating products, the installation comprising an enclosure, a member for sucking out the air contained in the enclosure, a container for products that is received inside the enclosure and that is provided with a top opening having an air- and water-permeable bottom of a cassette extending in register therewith, the cassette containing moisture-adsorption means, wherein a sealing gasket extends between a perimeter of the bottom of the cassette and an edge of the container defining the opening, wherein the installation includes means for moving the cassette and the container relative to each other between a contact position where the sealing gasket is in contact with both the cassette and the edge of the container, and a separation position where the sealing gasket is separated from the cassette and/or the edge of the container, and wherein the enclosure contains at least one shelf, the container and the cassette have lateral portions received in slideways of a support, the cassette being suspended under a top flange of the slideways and the container being movable between the contact position and the separation position in which the lateral portions of the container rest on bottom flanges of the slideways.