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US 11,305,294 B2Granted
Food processor
AssigneeReflect Scientific Inc.
InventorsBao Tran, William Moon
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Abstract
A system includes a grinder to obtain a ground meat; a mixer to add fat to the ground meat; a payload bay to receive the ground meat; a plurality of evaporators coupled to the payload bay; a pump to force coolant flowing through the evaporators; and means for adding fat to the chopped meat product and then chopping the fat and adding liquid nitrogen to maintain the temperature of the chopped meat product and fat being chopped between 1° C. and 10° C. to obtain a chopped meat and fat product.
Claims20
A food processing system, comprising:
- a grinder to obtain a ground meat;
- a mixer to add fat to the ground meat;
- a payload bay to receive the ground meat;
- a plurality of evaporators coupled to the payload bay;
- a pump to force coolant flowing through the evaporators;
- a processor with code configured to add fat to the chopped meat product and then chopping the fat and adding liquid nitrogen to maintain the temperature of the chopped meat product and fat being chopped between 1° C. and 10° C. to obtain a chopped meat and fat product.
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A system, comprising:
- a liquid Nitrogen inlet capable of convenient attachment to a customer's liquid Nitrogen supply;
- a cryogenic flow system that operates at a predetermined Nitrogen flow;
- a grinder to obtain a ground meat;
- a mixer to add fat to the ground meat;
- a payload bay to receive the ground meat;
- a plurality of evaporators inside the payload bay;
- a plurality of fans that distribute the cooled air from the evaporators to the payload bay;
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- an interactive Human Machine Interface (HMI) to with code for:
- i. chopping the ground meat and during chopping, adding salt and ice to the ground meat being chopped and adding liquid nitrogen to maintain the temperature of the meat being chopped below 5° C. to obtain a chopped meat product,
- ii. adding fat to the chopped meat product and then chopping the fat and adding liquid nitrogen to maintain the temperature of the chopped meat product and fat being chopped between 1° C. (currently amended) And 10° C. to obtain a chopped meat and fat product,
- iii. wherein the ground meat, added fat, ice and salt are present in amounts so that the chopped meat and fat product has a fat content of from 1% to 20% by weight based upon the weight of the chopped meat and fat product.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.