Conveyor system for chilling food products
CA 2113051 A1 · Owner: Johnson, David A. · Inventors: Johnson, David A.; Robertson, Thomas W.
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Food product chilling apparatus is afforded herein comprising an elongated water tank and a modular movable belt conveyer unit that carries warm food products through water for chilling. A superstructure and hoist system lifts the conveyor unit out of the water for servicing. Cooling water is recirculated and rechilled in a cooling method that controls the temperature of the efflux water from the cooling tank. The influx chilling water is distributed in a plurality of parallel flow paths incrementally chilling the product at various stations along the conveyor belt path to reduce the average cooling time for the processed products. By standardizing the efflux water temperature at the …
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- Filed January 7, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 7, 2014.
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