Serpentine food processing with closed-loop recirculation

Details Serpentine food processing with closed-loop recirculation Serpentine food processing with closed-loop recirculation

1991-11-04

1993-10-19

Hornsby, Harvey C.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Subjecting food to an enclosed modified atmosphere

Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure

99478, 34216, A23B 403

Patent

active

052535690

ABSTRACT:
A food processing system (100) includes a food processing chamber (102) for processing a food product, a serpentine conveyor (104) having a plurality of parallel flights connected at their ends by U-shaped bends, and a recirculation system for supplying a processing medium to the chamber and recirculating the processing medium along a closed-loop unidirectional recirculation path having a supply path portion (106) along and parallel to a first set of flights (108), and a return path portion (110) along and parallel to a second set of flights (112). A blower (114) has a high pressure supply side (116) supplying the processing medium to the supply path portion, and a low pressure return side (118) drawing the processing medium from the return path portion. The processing medium acts on the food product in both the supply and return path portions, and the food product on the flights travels both with and against the direction of flow of the processing medium during each of the supply and return path portions without reversing the direction of flow of the processing medium along the closed-loop recirculation path.

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