Patent ID: 7210574

Claim:
A system for conveying and delivering pasta dried in a pasta dryer, comprising: sprocket wheels; a conveyor belt being guided by and deflected about said sprocket wheels such that said conveyer belt includes an upper strand and a lower strand; reinforcing elements being disposed in a spaced apart orientation on the conveyer belt and arranged to face inwardly thereof forming pockets therebetween for receiving and holding the pasta therein as the pasta is conveyed along the lower strand; and a depositing table being disposed underneath said upper strand in an area proximate to a one of said sprocket wheels at which said pasta has already been dried in the pasta drier, said depositing table including a flat depositing surface which is extended along an arc in direction of the lower strand, such that during deflection of the conveyer belt from the lower strand to the upper stand about said one of said sprocket wheels, the pasta in the pockets falls onto the depositing table.