METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPERATURE CONDITIONING AN EXTRACTOR
A desolventizing process equipment. It employs a cold solvent washing station inserted in line with hot miscella washing stations. The equipment thereby affords temperature control of a miscella and material processed by the equipment.
1 . A machine for desolventizing miscella having been used in a process for treating a flake or granular agricultural material, comprising:
(a) a screen conveyor for transporting the material from an inlet end of the machine to an outlet end thereof;
(b) an inlet through which the material is deposited on said screen conveyor at said inlet end thereof;
(c) a series of at least one warm miscella washing station spaced sequentially along an axis, generally parallel to said conveyor, from said inlet; and
(d) a cold solvent washing station disposed proximate said axis and intermediate said inlet and a first of said warm miscella washing stations.