Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Cooling – freezing – or treating cooled or frozen product,...
Patent
1998-09-01
2000-04-25
Tapolcai, William
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Cooling, freezing, or treating cooled or frozen product,...
62320, 426513, 426518, 426519, A23L 336
Patent
active
060541644
ABSTRACT:
A manipulating apparatus (10) receives a plurality of previously frozen pieces of foodstuffs or workpieces (23) and physically manipulates or stresses the workpieces while they remain in a frozen state. The physical manipulation causes relative movement between various points within the volume of the workpieces (23) and kills microbes within the foodstuff. One preferred manipulating apparatus includes a pair of spaced apart, ridged rollers (24,25). The rollers (24,25) have a minimum clearance less than an initial thickness of the workpieces (23). A drive arrangement (30) drives the rollers (24,25) in counter-rotating fashion toward each other to pull workpieces (23) through the minimum clearance area. As the workpieces (23) pass between rollers (24,25), the workpiece material spreads out laterally and bends between opposing ridges (38). This lateral spreading and bending produces relative movement throughout the volume of the workpieces (23).
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Culberston Russell D.
Tapolcai William
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