Station for Thermal Processing of Tea Leaves

Increase in intensity of tea leaves thermal processing steps - storage and withering and the quality of the final product. 2. Essence The station for thermal heating of tea leaves comprises loading 10 and unloading 11 transporters, a chamber 1 with horizontally disposed sieved conveyer 2, a loosening device 4 for tea leaves layer made in the form of pins 6 radially disposed on shaft 5, system of air supply. The shaft 5 and pins 6 are hollow and perforated for air supply. The fingers 6 are of cylindrical form the perforation of which is made from one side of longitudinal cross-section surface in the direction aligned with shaft 5 rotation. The distance from the shaft center 5 to the pins 6 ends is equal to the half depth of tea layer, whereas the maximum value of the clearance between the conveyer 2 and the pins 6 of the loosening device makes 2-3 mm. 3. Field of Application Tea production in particular the device for thermal processing of tea leaves. 3 fig.