Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Measuring – testing – or controlling by inanimate means – Preparing solid product in final form by heating
Patent
1989-06-14
1990-09-11
Corbin, Arthur L.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Measuring, testing, or controlling by inanimate means
Preparing solid product in final form by heating
426438, A23L 1217
Patent
active
049561898
ABSTRACT:
A potato chip production line has an improved precooking process and 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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Corbin Arthur L.
Mike-Sell's Potato Chip Co.
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