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US 10,271,560 B2Granted
Brine injection system with a filter
AssigneeGea Food Solutions Bakel B.V.
InventorWillem Poos
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a brine injection system with a plurality of needles, which are inserted into a product and through which brine is injected into the product, wherein brine which does not end up in the product is collected and recycled and wherein during recycling, the brine flows through a filter.
Claims20
A brine injection system comprising:
- a plurality of needles, which are inserted into a product and through which brine is injected into the product, and
- a filter,
- wherein the brine which does not end up in the product is collected and recycled,
- wherein during recycling of the brine, the brine flows through the filter,
- wherein the filter comprises a filter element along which unfiltered brine flows and through which filtered brine passes and which holds back residues in the unfiltered brine,
- wherein the filter element is at least locally curved, and
- wherein a permeability of the filter element varies with a flow-length of the brine along the filter element.
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A system comprising:
- a plurality of needles, the needles are inserted into a product and through which brine is injected into the product;
- a filter comprising a filter element, the filter element is curved and inclined relative to a horizontal plane so that the brine flows along and through the filter element by gravity, a radius of curvature of the filter element is in a range from 1500 to 1800 mm, the filter element is a screen that vibrates to increase filter capacity of the filter element, the filter element is a slotted screen;
- an extra filter upstream from the needles;
- a chiller for the brine;
- a cleaning system;
- a moving device that moves the cleaning system relative to the filter element in one or two directions parallel to a surface of the filter element;
- a sensor that measures a flow of the brine through the filter element, wherein a signal from the sensor is used to activate or deactivate the cleaning system;
- a recycle means to recycle brine that is collected by the cleaning system;
- wherein the brine which does not end up in the product is collected by the cleaning system and recycled in the recycle means;
- wherein during recycling of the brine, the brine that does not end up in the product flows through the filter;
- wherein unfiltered brine flows along the filter element, through which filtered brine passes and which holds back residues in the unfiltered brine;
- and
- wherein a permeability of the filter element increases with a flow-length of the brine along the filter element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.