Food processing vat
CA 2002554 C · Owner: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. · Inventors: Jay, Jeffrey L.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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An enclosed food processing vat is provided having two or more generally horizontally-oriented partial cylindrical inner wall sections, each inner wall section conforming to a first portion of an swept volume created by the rotation of an agitator means about a horizontal shaft the distance between, the shafts being slightly greater than the radius of the swept volume so that a second portion of the swept volume for each shaft intersects and overlaps the swept volume of adjacent shafts. Each shaft is provided with a series of combined cutting and stirring paddles comprising a series of blades arranged both perpendicular to the shaft and parallel to the shaft that are sharpened on one side …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 8, 1989 and granted March 16, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 8, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 8, 2011.
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