Food processing vat with contoured bottom and mated agitator blade
AssigneeDamrow Company, Inc.
InventorsGerald A. Rusch, Villy S. Rasmussen
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Abstract
A food processing vat having an outer shell and an inner vessel to contain a food product with a chamber therebetween includes a contoured bottom having a high point and a low point wherein the food product naturally gravitates toward the low point which a drain may be connected for draining the food product from the vessel. Agitation means in the vessel include a lower blade assembly which is adapted to conform substantially to the contoured bottom of the vessel. Heating means disposed in the chamber between the vessel and the outer shell provide for uniform heating of the vessel and the food product contained therein.
Claims19
A food processing vat, comprising:
- a. an outer shell having a generally oval side wall and a bottom wall;
- b. a vessel within the shell and composed of a pair of interconnected generally cylindrical members, the cylindrical members intersecting along a pair of vertically extending apices, the vessel including a contoured vessel bottom having a pair of concave curved surfaces, each concentric with one of said cylinder members and intersecting at the apices of the intersecting cylindrical members;
- c. a drain in communication with the contoured vessel bottom at the low point of each contour;
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- d. a vertical shaft supporting an agitation means on the center axis of each cylindrical member and concentric with the respective curved surface of the contoured vessel bottom.
A food processing vat, comprising:
- a. an outer shell having a generally oval side wall and a substantially horizontal, flat bottom wall;
- b. a vessel spaced within the shell and composed of a pair of interconnected generally cylindrical members, the cylindrical members intersecting along a pair of vertically extending apices, and having a common outer side wall spaced inwardly from the shell side wall, the vessel including a contoured vessel bottom comprising a pair of concave curved surfaces, each concentric with one of said cylindrical members and intersecting at the apices of the intersecting cylindrical members, the contoured vessel bottom disposed above the outer wall of the shell;
- c. a gravity drain in communication with the contoured vessel bottom at the center of each concave curved surface;
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- d. agitation means disposed within each cylindrical member for agitating the product therein, the agitation means having a contoured bottom edge substantially conforming to the contoured vessel bottom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.