Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1988-03-07
1989-09-19
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99339, 99353, 99357, 99406, 99407, A47J 3712
Patent
active
048670499
ABSTRACT:
A potato chip production line has an improved precooking apparatus which includes an elongated sluice having a moving stream of heated precooking liquid of a temperature within a desired range of 200 to 300 degrees F. at an upstream end of the sluice, a conveyor for introducing thin starch-coated potato slices into the stream at the sluice upstream end, paddle wheels rotatably mounted in the sluice at sites spaced along and within the stream for partially damming the stream and the potato slices carried therein at the sites in order to control the stream level and the degree of precooking of the slices, and nozzles connected to the sluice in communication with the stream and disposed adjacent to the respective sites and generally below the paddle wheels. The nozzles inject jets of heated precooking liquid into the stream along paths directed generally downstream of and tangential to the rotational path of the paddle wheels in order to maintain the temperature of the liquid within the desired range and concurrently to disperse and thereby prevent accumulation of the starch-coated potato slices at the sites as a result of the partial damming of the stream at the sites by the paddle wheels.
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Gerrity Stephen F.
Hornsby Harvey C.
Mike Sell's Potato Chip Co.
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