Refrigeration – Means producing shaped or modified congealed product – Freezing surface mounted for movement during freezing
Patent
1980-05-05
1982-04-13
Tapolcai, Jr., William E.
Refrigeration
Means producing shaped or modified congealed product
Freezing surface mounted for movement during freezing
62375, 62433, A23G 502
Patent
active
043241085
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for freezing confection material includes a plurality of separate mold strips which are indexed in a closely spaced single file over several longitudinally spaced, transversely extending rows of nozzles. Coolant is forced upwardly from the nozzles in single vertical jets which impinge perpendicularly against the mold strips midway between adjacent mold cups. The mold cups are arranged with their wide side faces extending in their direction of travel, and the single jets of coolant impinge upon wall portions of the mold strips which extend transversely between such opposing wide side faces. The heat exchanger for refrigerating the coolant includes a vertically super-imposed array of heat exchanger tubes that is located directly under the mold cups so that the coolant will drip from the mold cups onto the heat exchanger tubes. The coolant then cascades from upper to lower heat exchanger tubes and is refrigerated by the time it trickles into a collection housing situated below the heat exchanger. Mechanical seals are formed between the adjacent mold strips by intermeshing end walls of the mold strips; the seals enable the coolant to be continuously sprayed without concern that the coolant may be injected upwardly between the strips to contaminate the confection material.
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Billett Ronald J.
Viitanen Veikko K.
FMC Corporation
Megley Richard B.
Pizzanelli Louis J.
Tapolcai, Jr. William E.
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