“Cryofood”™ Type Mechanical Tunnel Freezer

Technical characteristics
This type of system is built in a rather different manner compared to traditional mechanical systems, and provides the following advantages:
a) it saves much of the refrigerating potential. This is due to externally mounted motors driving all of the fans, including those installed inside the chamber. This way, no refrigerating potential is drawn from the freezing process.
b) Format flexibility. If needed, the working distance between two trays can be doubled by simply extracting some of the trays (every other tray) and synchronizing the feed rate again
c) Compact size. Given its interesting output capacity, the size of the machine – basic overall dimensions in particular – is rather small. The distribution of volumes has been optimized thanks to accurate engineering.

Functional description of machine
This system is used to obtain the rapid freezing (deep-freezing) of products arranged on trays.
Machine operation is very simple.
A chain device allows trays to advance automatically, from the loading area onto a track that runs along the refrigerated box, and up to the product unloading area after the product has been frozen.

The trays move along the following route:
• arrival from the previous processing station (oven or cooler)
• freezing cycle
• unloading or transfer to other processing stations

At the end of this track, trays are automatically brought back to the loading area.
The track runs along a closed circuit; this means that trays never leave the machine, so there is no need to move them manually.
The trays move along the following route:

• loading
• rapid freezing cycle
• unloading
return to loading area

all is done automatically and without the trays ever leaving the work cycle.