Method and apparatus to cool food contact machines and surfaces
OwnerRenee M. Hall, Donald M. Hallinventors
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Abstract
A cooling and refrigeration apparatus cools one or more surfaces of one or more food handling devices, such as meat cutting machines, scales, and food preparation areas, so as to inhibit bacterial and other microbial growth thereon. The apparatus includes one or more coolers to lower the temperature of the food contact surfaces to a predetermined temperature which inhibits bacteria and other microbial growth thereon, by providing one or more surfaces at the predetermined temperature adjacent to or at the one or more food handling surfaces. The cooler includes a distributor system of conduit passageways and other distribution devices to distribute one or more cooling media to conductive surfaces of the one or more food handling devices.
Claims48
A cooler apparatus to inhibit bacterial and microbial growth on a food contact surface of at least one portable food handling device being operated at ambient air temperature, such as a slicing machine, a weighing scale or a continuous, flat, seamless food preparation surface, said cooler apparatus comprising a cooler impinging upon a surface of the at least one food handling device, said cooler reducing from ambient air temperature the temperature of the food contacting surface of the at least one food handling device to a predetermined temperature for inhibiting the bacterial and microbial growth thereon, said cooler apparatus including a distributor for distributing at least one cooling medium from at least one source thereof to said surface of said at least one food handling device.
A cooler apparatus to inhibit bacterial and microbial growth on a food contact surface of at least one portable food handling device being operated at ambient air temperature, such as a slicing machine, a weighing scale or a continuous, flat, seamless food preparation surface, said cooler apparatus comprising a cooler impinging upon a surface of the at least one food handling device, said cooler reducing from ambient air temperature the temperature of the food contacting surface of the at least one food handling device to a predetermined temperature for inhibiting the bacterial and microbial growth thereon, said cooler apparatus including a distributor for distributing at least one cooling medium from at least one external source thereof to said surface of said at least one food handling device.
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