Round container for germinating and drying malt

• US 9,487,349 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2013
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bühler GmbH (Beilngries) (Buhler Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: Bühler GmbH (Beilngries) (Buhler Holding AG)
• Inventors: Gtz, Franz, Nieberler, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Besler, Christopher
• Assistant Examiner(s): Salone, Bayan
• Application Number:
  US13/765,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20130212897A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,365 Days
• Field of Search: 294/28, 294/48, 220/4.14, 220/4.16, 220/4.17, 220/692, 220/693, 220/565, 220/648, 220/651
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 88/08 with a vertical axis
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 88/741 aerating by ambient air through openings in the wall
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 90/023 Modular panels
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 90/08 Interconnections of wall parts; Sealing means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 25/14 Chambers, containers, receptacles of simple construction
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49867 of skin on frame member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49947 by applying separate fastener
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49948 Multipart cooperating fastener [e.g., bolt and nut]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49956 Riveting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49968 Metal fusion joining
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53322 Means to assemble container

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing a round container and to a round container configured for said method, which provide faster construction of the round container, mostly independent from the precision of the preliminary work in spite of high final precision, and which provide simple transportation of the components to the construction site. This is accomplished by the invention through setting up wall profiles (2), which are continuous over the wall height of the round container (1) and which have in particular a flat inner surface, continuously along the circumference and by connecting them with one another and with the subsurface in particular through bolting.

Claims

1. A round container, in particular a germination box or a drying kiln in a malting operation, which is set up on a subsurface, the round container comprising:

a circumferential wall having a wall height, the circumferential wall including;

a plurality of vertically standing unitary wall profiles disposed along a circumference line, wherein a height of each of the vertically standing unitary wall profiles is the wall height of the round container, the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are bolted to the subsurface and to one another, and the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are comprised of;

a center arm and a bent over side arm bent at a bending angle relative to the center arm, the bending angle being greater than 90°

, wherein the side arm is bent over twice, thus forming an opposite arm which extends substantially parallel to the center arm, and a free ending arm bent from the opposite arm.

2. The round container according to claim 1, wherein the circumferential wall includes special profiles different from the vertically standing unitary wall profiles, wherein the special profiles have reduced heights for generating air inlet and air outlet openings.

3. The round container according to claim 1, further comprising:

at least one filler plate, the filler plate including a thickness which substantially corresponds to an undersize target value threshold, the filler plate mounted between two vertically standing unitary wall profiles in order to compensate for an undersize of the vertically standing unitary wall profiles along a circumferential direction.

4. The round container according to claim 1, wherein the vertically standing unitary wall profiles include flat inner surfaces, which face radially inward in the assembled state of the round container.

5. The round container according to claim 1, wherein the vertically standing unitary wall profiles include radially inward oriented inner surfaces in an assembled state of the round container, which include a constant curvature over the length of the vertically standing unitary wall profile, which curvature substantially corresponds to the curvature of the circumference line.

6. The round container according to claim 1, wherein the vertically standing unitary wall profiles include radially inward oriented inner surfaces in an assembled state of the round container, wherein the inner surfaces are at least bent over once over the length of the vertically standing unitary wall profile and wherein the inner surface describes a polygon section visible in top view, which is approximated to the circumference line.

7. The round container according to claim 1, wherein the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are closed in an outward direction through cover plates, wherein the cover plates are mounted to support beams, the support beams being permanently connected to the free ending arms of the vertically standing unitary wall profiles and extending between two free ending arms of the vertically standing unitary wall profiles, wherein a radially outer surface of the support beams is aligned with a radially outer surface of the opposite arm.

8. The round container according to claim 1, wherein an insulation chamber is defined by the vertically standing unitary wall profiles, support beams and cover plates, into which insulation chamber insulation material can be filled.

9. The round container according to claim 1, wherein a wall segment is assembled from a plurality of the vertically standing unitary wall profiles bolted to one another, wherein the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are assembled at defined assembly angles, so that the wall segment includes the curvature of the subsequent circumference line, and an inner fairing is mounted to inner surfaces of the wall segment.

10. The round container according to claim 9, wherein the inner surface includes at least one inner plate and the inner fairing reaches beyond the wall segment on one side along a circumferential direction.

11. The round container according to claim 9, wherein inner plates are disposed at the inner surface of the wall segment, so that the inner plates overlap with one another along a circumferential direction like fish scales.

12. The round container according to claim 9, wherein inner plates are made from stainless steel.

13. The round container according to claim 9, wherein the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are made of stainless steel.

14. A round container, in particular a germination box or a drying kiln in a malting operation, which is set up on a subsurface, the round container comprising:

a circumferential wall having a wall height, the circumferential wall including;

a plurality of vertically standing unitary wall profiles disposed along a circumference line, wherein a height of each of the vertically standing unitary wall profiles is the wall height of the round container, the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are bolted to the subsurface and to one another, and the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are comprised of;

a center arm and a bent over side arm bent at a bending angle relative to the center arm, the bending angle being greater than 90°

, wherein the side arm is bent over twice, thus forming an opposite arm which extends substantially parallel to the center arm, and a free ending arm bent from the opposite arm,

wherein support beams are insertable between two bent over free ending arms of the plurality of vertically standing unitary wall profiles and mountable between the two bent over free ending arms of the plurality of vertically standing unitary wall profiles.

15. A round container, in particular a germination box or a drying kiln in a malting operation, which is set up on a subsurface, the round container comprising:

a circumferential wall having a wall height, the circumferential wall including;

a plurality of vertically standing unitary wall profiles disposed along a circumference line, wherein a height of each of the vertically standing unitary wall profiles is the wall height of the round container, the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are bolted to the subsurface and to one another, and the vertically standing unitary wall profiles are comprised of;

a center arm and a bent over side arm bent at a bending angle relative to the center arm, the bending angle being greater than 90°

, wherein the side arm is bent over twice, thus forming an opposite arm which extends substantially parallel to the center arm, and a free ending arm bent from the opposite arm, and

a filler plate having a thickness which substantially corresponds to an undersize target value threshold to compensate an undersize of the wall profiles is attached to an end of a defined number of the plurality of vertically standing unitary wall profiles.