Patent ID: 7223060

Claim:
Apparatus for simultaneously temperature-regulating and conveying shaped parts, with a conveying device suitable for advancing said shaped parts and with at least one blower, by which said shaped parts are subjected to an air stream during advancing, whereby the conveying device has a channel, in the base plate of which a plurality of air inlet openings are arranged with a blowing direction oriented in the longitudinal direction of the channel and diagonally to a surface of said base plate, and wherein the air stream is simultaneously used for advancing and regulating the temperature of the shaped parts, wherein said channel is closed, the clear height of said channel approximately corresponding to the height of a single shaped part, the clear width of said channel at least along one part of the length thereof being many times greater than the width of a single shaped part, and in the cover plate of said channel opposite to the base plate a plurality of air inlet openings being arranged, and wherein the air stream produced by said at least one blower is introducible into said channel through the air inlet openings in order to directly achieve thereby advancing and temperature regulating of the shaped parts and wherein said channel branches at the end thereof into a plurality of partial channels, whose clear width corresponds approximately to the width of a shaped part, wherein advancing of the shaped parts occurs in said channel.