Twisting machine for the production of "8-shaped" curls from laminated or extruded pasta, featuring:
• Trays width 600mm.
• 510 or 540mm wide curtains or dough-sheets.
• Calibrating unit consisting of a couple of calibrating rollers diam. 180mm.
• Distribution unit to separate pasta strings according to curl dimensions.
• Curl forming unit suitable to collect pasta strings from distributor, to fold them according to the selected eight-shape and to place them on trays by means of appropriate movements; said movements are adjustable in order to obtain curls with different dimensions.
• Microprocessor for: machine operation, production data processing, machine data programming and display, job control, proportional linking among speeds under different job conditions, parameters storage under one out of 30 available shapes.
• Keyboard + monitor to set and store operation parameters according to shapes, and to display possible alarms together with a short description for immediate intervention.
• Inverter for motor operation.
• Trays feed unit with motor for synchronized trays progress according to curl forming process, suitable to operate trays change by discharging the loaded tray and drawing an empty one.
• Trays store suitable to automatically draw, by means of a chain with pushers, a new tray when the previous one has been loaded.
• Example of line with trays storage, twisting machine and pre-dryer: