Foods and beverages: apparatus – Mechanical – fluid or heat treatment of dairy food – With temperature or atmosphere modification
Patent
1988-11-09
1991-02-05
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Mechanical, fluid or heat treatment of dairy food
With temperature or atmosphere modification
99453, 99462, 99466, 366149, 366300, 366301, 366325, A01J 2500, A23C 1900, B01F 1506
Patent
active
049895044
ABSTRACT:
An enclosed food processing vat is provided having two or more generally horizontally-oriented partial cylindrical inner wall sections, each inner wall section conforming to a first portion of an swept volume created by the rotation of an agitator means about a horizontal shaft, the distance between the shafts being slightly greater than the radius of the swept volume so that a second portion of the swept volume for each shaft intersects and overlaps the swept volume of adjacent shafts. Each shaft is provided with a series of combined cutting and stirring paddles comprising a series of blades arranged both perpendicular to the shaft and parallel to the shaft that are sharpened on one side only and fixed so that when the shaft is rotated in one direction cutting will take place; whereas, when the shaft is rotated in the other direction stirring will take place. The stirring action is further enhanced by the orientation of certain perpendicular blades that act on the food product in a propeller-like manner creating a generally torroidal flow pattern of food product around the shaft of each inner wall section.
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Sherping Systems, Inc.
Simone Timothy F.
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