Cryogenic poultry chilling system and method
AssigneeAir Products and Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsJean-P. Trembley, Nigel Cope
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Abstract
A cryogenic poultry chilling system including a rotatable carousel having a plurality of stations each configured and arranged to receive a poultry carcass suspended from leg hangers, the poultry carcass having an upward facing cavity opening and a downward facing neck opening, a tundish having an outlet port corresponding to each of the stations, and an injector extending downwardly from each of the tundish outlet ports configured and arranged to deliver cryogen into the cavity opening of a carcass in the corresponding station, and a cryogen delivery apparatus configured to deliver substantially liquid cryogen into the tundish.
Claims14
A cryogenic poultry chilling system comprising:
- a rotatable carousel including:
- a plurality of stations each configured and arranged to receive a corresponding poultry carcass suspended from leg hangers, the corresponding poultry carcass having an upward facing cavity opening and a downward facing neck opening;
- a tundish having a plurality of outlet ports with an outlet port corresponding to each of the plurality of stations;
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- a plurality of injectors with an injector extending downwardly from each of the tundish outlet ports configured and arranged to deliver liquid cryogen into the cavity opening of the carcass in the corresponding station;
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- a cryogen delivery apparatus configured and arranged to deliver substantially liquid cryogen into the tundish.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.