. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. drops into a pulper in which the pulp is strained through a screen or sieve. In this manner, seeds and skins are removed and the lumps of pulp are broken up. "With the aid of a 'top-roll' tha strained pulp is spread in a thin layer on the surface of an in- ternally heated stainless steel drum, about five feet in diameter, and ten feet long. Auxiliary equipment controls atmospheric conditions and maintains humidity constant regardless of the sea- son. The temperature of the drum and the speed with which it re- volves are contro
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. drops into a pulper in which the pulp is strained through a screen or sieve. In this manner, seeds and skins are removed and the lumps of pulp are broken up. "With the aid of a 'top-roll' tha strained pulp is spread in a thin layer on the surface of an in- ternally heated stainless steel drum, about five feet in diameter, and ten feet long. Auxiliary equipment controls atmospheric conditions and maintains humidity constant regardless of the sea- son. The temperature of the drum and the speed with which it re- volves are controlled by automatic regulators. After the wet materi- al is uniformly applied to the dry- er, heat transfer takes place at such a rate that substantially all the moisture is removed in about 20 seconds, whereupon the materi- al is conveyed by a series of small- er rolls in a solid sheet to a screw conveyor which takes it to the packing department for packaging. "A take-off chamber is provided so that conditioned air can be maintained in the space surround- ing the dry film of cranberries, thus preventing the dehydrated cranberry from regaining the moisture which was removed from it. The conditioned air is of ade- quate capacity to maintain a rela- tive humidity as low as 30 to 40 per cent. This same conditioned air is also used in the ducts on the take-off rolls to cool the film from below and above. "The solid sheet of deyhdrated cranberry is broken up in the screw conveyor in the air conditioned take-off room. Since all conditions of time, temperature, and humidity are constantly controlled, the only variations which must be allowed for are those in the raw materials themselves such as those in the percentage of sugar, pectin, etc. "The Cranberry Flakes product is sold largely to restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and other institutional trade and also to food manufac- turers including the ice cream and bakery ; In addition to the production and market
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