Patent ID: 8475165

Claim:
An apparatus for treating a product including one of pasta, fabric, plastic or other of a long and continuous shape, comprising at least a conveyor belt closed in a ring and able to move the product in a direction of feed in sequence through at least a treatment sector associated upstream with a first sector and downstream with a second sector, wherein said conveyor belt is at least partly made of flexible material, and wherein said conveyor belt is associated with at least two distinct transport systems, a first transport system being disposed at least in correspondence with one of either said first sector, or upstream sector, and said second sector, or downstream sector, and a second transport system being disposed in correspondence with said treatment sector, a plurality of bars disposed transverse to the direction of feed rendering said conveyor belt solid with the relative transport system, and wherein the positioning pitch (p 2 ) of said bars on said second transport system is less than the positioning pitch (p 1 ) of the bars on said first transport system, to automatically create a plurality of loops on said conveyor belt, of a depth correlated to said pitch (p 2 ), in correspondence with said treatment sector, and wherein the first and the second transport system each comprise two adjacent chains which bear teeth suitable to support and position the transverse bars in relation to the respective pitches (p 1 ) and (p 2 ).