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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10602759 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2016

Thermal measurement and process control

Applicant:

John Bean Technologies Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Jon A. Hocker, Bothell, WA (US);

John R. Strong, Bellevue, WA (US);

Ramesh M. Gunawardena, Solon, OH (US);

Richard D. Stockard, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:

John Bean Technologies Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:

Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Lisa M Caputo

Assistant Examiner:

Nasir U Ahmed

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 1/08 (2006.01); A23L 3/18 (2006.01); A22C 17/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/12 (2006.01); G01K 13/06 (2006.01); G01K 13/12 (2006.01); B65G 47/53 (2006.01); G01K 13/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/02 (2006.01); G01K 1/14 (2006.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); A23B 4/005 (2006.01); B65G 15/00 (2006.01); B65G 15/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 3/185 (2013.01); A22C 17/008 (2013.01); A23B 4/005 (2013.01); B65G 15/00 (2013.01); B65G 15/50 (2013.01); B65G 47/53 (2013.01); G01K 1/14 (2013.01); G01K 1/146 (2013.01); G01K 13/00 (2013.01); G01K 13/06 (2013.01); G01K 13/12 (2013.01); G01N 33/02 (2013.01); G01N 33/12 (2013.01); G05B 19/042 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0202 (2013.01); G01K 2207/06 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2621 (2013.01);
Abstract

A thermal processing and control system () includes a thermal processing station () for receiving food products () being carried on a conveyor system (). A first scanning station () is located upstream from the thermal processing station () for scanning the food products being carried by the conveyor (). An actuator () automatically connects temperature measuring devices () with selected food products (). A diverter conveyor () diverts selected food products () from the conveyor () to a transverse conveyor () for either further processing or alternative processing, depending on how system () is configured. The temperature measuring devices () are automatically removed from the food products at station ().

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