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US 12,708,122 B2Granted
Device for heating and cooling food items
AssigneeLambhusasund Ehf.
InventorIngolfur Arnason
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and a device for treating and/or transporting food items. The apparatus and method are designed to facilitate treating animals or food items in liquid. The device of the present invention is designed as a spiral shaped channel with one or more channels wound together around an axis. The apparatus of the present invention and the use thereof provides a method to heat or cool food items in a spiral shaped channel device.
Claims12
An apparatus for heating or cooling food items in liquid, the apparatus comprising:
- a first heat exchange unit, further comprising:
- a chamber,
- a heat exchange device, and
- connections for feeding a first liquid heat exchange medium to and from the chamber through the heat exchange device,
- a second heat exchange unit, further comprising:
- one or more spiral-shaped channels for transporting food items in a second liquid heat exchange medium through,
- an in-feed structure,
- an out-feed structure,
- a motor for rotating the one or more spiral-shaped channels of the second heat exchange unit,
- wherein the one or more spiral-shaped channels of the second heat exchange unit are rotatable around an axis in the chamber of the first heat exchange unit, and wherein the one or more spiral-shaped channels of the second heat exchange unit are fully submerged in the first liquid heat exchange medium in the chamber of the first heat exchange unit.
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