Ingredient freezing system and method for producing frozen ingredient
AssigneeHAKUBAI Co., Ltd.
InventorsIkuo Ota, Yoshiyuki Ota
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Abstract
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel freezing system and a method for producing frozen ingredients, the system and method being such that the amount of free water after defrosting of the frozen ingredients is lower than with conventional freezing. The present invention solves the above problem by providing an ingredient freezing system comprising two or more freezing units for freezing the ingredient, and a transport unit for transporting the ingredient to the two or more freezing units, the two or more freezing units being configured so as to freeze the ingredient in stages so that the ingredient is frozen at progressively lower temperatures as the ingredient is transported on the transport unit.
Claims16
A food freezing system for freezing food, the food freezing system comprising:
- freezing units for freezing the food;
- and
- a transporting unit for transporting the food to the two or more freezing units;
- wherein the freezing units comprise a plurality of air blowing vents for blowing cold air toward the transporting unit along a direction of transport of the transporting unit,
- wherein the air blowing vent is provided at least at either a lower portion or an upper portion of the transporting unit, and is tilted with respect to a direction that is orthogonal to the direction of transport of the transporting unit, and
- wherein orientations of tilts of the air blowing vents are configured to alternate along the direction of transport of the transporting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.