Refrigeration – Processes – Treating an article
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-13
2007-02-13
Ali, Mohammad M. (Department: 3744)
Refrigeration
Processes
Treating an article
C062S374000, C062S381000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11100802
ABSTRACT:
The chiller includes a semi-cylindrical tank (36) that conforms to the perimeter of its auger (38) so that the water can be raised to a water level (68) high above the auger shaft (44). Streams of water (84) are directed from the pulling side (80) across the lower portion of the tank beneath the auger shaft (44) to the dead side82of the tank at intervals along the tank so as to disperse the lower portion of the masses (23) of buoyant birds (22) from the more crowded pulling side (80) of the tank, beneath the auger shaft (44) toward the more vacant dead side (82) of the tank, thereby distributing the products more evenly throughout the tank and causing more water turbulence in the tank, thereby increasing the rate of heat transfer from the birds and avoiding having the birds cross over the auger shaft moving backward in chiller into a following flight of the auger.
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Cathey Robert E.
Morris, III William F.
Shell John P.
Wright Terry A.
Ali Mohammad M.
Morris & Associates Inc.
Thomas Kayden Horstemeyer & Risley LLP
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