Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1997-06-26
1999-04-27
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
99386, 99443C, 414240, 414924, 452 51, 452182, A23L 101, A22C 1500, B65G 1700
Patent
active
058968091
ABSTRACT:
A food processing method and system, including a continuous cooker/chiller conveyor system (24) for meat products such as hot dogs and the like, is provided with an automatic unloader (36) having a first discharge transfer mode (FIGS. 1 and 2) automatically transferring the food product (22) to an automatic transfer member (38) for conveyance to a packaging line (32, 34), and a second discharge holding mode (FIGS. 3 and 4) holding the food product (22) on rack-off discharge arms (54, 56) until manually removed. In the event of an interruption in the packaging line (32, 34), rather than automatically transferring the food product (22) from the automatic unloader (36) to the transfer member (38), a rack-off procedure is instituted and the food product (22) is manually unloaded from the automatic unloader (36) and manually transferred to a holding rack (44, 46) on a temporary basis until resumption of operation of the packaging line (32, 34). This enables food product (22) to be continuously conveyed by the continuous cooker/chiller conveyor system (24) to the unloading station (26) without interruption, even if there is an interruption in operation of the downstream packaging line (32, 34).
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"Alkar Continuous Process Systems", Alkar Division of DEC International, Inc. P.O. Box 296, 105 Spring Street, Lodi, Wisconsin 53555, 1995.
DEC International Inc.
Simone Timothy F.
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