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US 12,557,822 B2Granted
Automated clean in process (CIP) system
AssigneeCms Technology, LLC
InventorsJordan Koerwitz, Daniel Marken, Douglas Kroitsch, Mark Bramlett, Drew Dalton
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Abstract
Provided are foodstuff treatment systems that are convertible between a processing mode in which foodstuffs are processed (e.g., disinfected) and a clean-in-place mode in which the system operates to clean material (e.g., biological buildup) that has accumulated within the system.
Claims19
A method, comprising operating a system, wherein operating the system comprises one or more of:
- (State 1) communicating a foodstuff disinfecting fluid to a first foodstuff treatment module via a delivery section and a first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic isolation from a return section;
- (State 2) communicating a cleaning fluid to the first foodstuff treatment module via the delivery section and the first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic isolation from the return section;
- and
- (State 3) communicating the cleaning fluid to the first foodstuff treatment module via the delivery section and the first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic communication with the return section,
- wherein the operating effects treatment, with the foodstuff treatment fluid, of a foodstuff disposed in the first foodstuff treatment module.
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A method, comprising:
- (State 1) communicating a foodstuff treatment fluid via a fluidic pathway to a first foodstuff treatment module so as to disinfect a foodstuff disposed within the first foodstuff treatment module;
- and
- at least one of:
- (State 2a) communicating, via a first portion of the fluidic pathway, a cleaning fluid to the first foodstuff module so as to disinfect the first portion of the fluidic pathway and the first foodstuff module, and
- (State 2b) communicating, via the first portion of the fluidic pathway, the cleaning fluid to a second portion of the fluidic pathway that at least partially forms a loop with the first portion of the fluidic pathway, the communicating disinfecting the first portion of the fluidic pathway and the second portion of the fluidic pathway.
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A method comprising operating a system, wherein operating the system comprises one or more of:
- (State 1) communicating a foodstuff disinfecting fluid to a first foodstuff treatment module via a delivery section and a first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic isolation from a return section;
- (State 2) communicating a cleaning fluid to the first foodstuff treatment module via the delivery section and the first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic isolation from the return section;
- and
- (State 3) communicating the cleaning fluid to the first foodstuff treatment module via the delivery section and the first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic communication with the return section,
- wherein the operating of the system is based on a signal received from a user interface, and wherein the signal is based on an input from a user.
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A method, comprising operating a system, wherein operating the system comprises one or more of:
- (State 1) communicating a foodstuff disinfecting fluid to a first foodstuff treatment module via a delivery section and a first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic isolation from a return section;
- (State 2) communicating a cleaning fluid to the first foodstuff treatment module via the delivery section and the first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic isolation from the return section;
- and
- (State 3) communicating the cleaning fluid to the first foodstuff treatment module via the delivery section and the first supply section while the first foodstuff treatment module is in fluidic communication with the return section;
- and
- converting the system between any one of State 1, State 2, and State 3 and any other one of State 1, State 2, and State 3.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.