System and method for cleaning and sanitizing foodstuff tanks
OwnerRonald Hinckinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for cleaning, rinsing, and sanitizing a container is disclosed. The system has a sanitizing agent chamber for storing a sanitizing agent, the one or more solution chambers in fluid communication with the container, a pump in fluid commination with the sanitizing agent, wherein the pump is in communication with a gas, and at least one spray nozzle fluidly connected to the at least one solution chamber via a conduit positioned within the container, wherein the spray nozzle comprises a housing inside which the sanitizing agent is mixed at pressure with the gas to disperse the sanitizing agent and gas mixture into the container for sanitizing the container.
Claims7
A method for cleaning a foodstuff container, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) heating water;
- then
- (b) introducing the heated water to rinse the container;
- then
- (c) connecting the container to a sanitizing agent chamber;
- then
- (d) introducing a cleaning agent with a clean-in-place (CIP) device via one or more conduits, wherein cleaning agent is a mixture of caustic cleaner and water to the container;
- then
- (e) rinsing the container by introducing a second water to rise the container using the at least one (CIP) device and at least one pump;
- then
- (f) pumping a gas at pressure into a housing of a nozzle concurrently with the sanitizing agent;
- then
- (g) mixing the gas with the sanitizing agent in the housing;
- then
- (h) pressurizing the gas and sanitizing agent mixture in the housing;
- then
- (i) dispersing the sanitizing agent and gas mixture to form a mist of sanitizing agent and gas into the container for sanitizing the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.