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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 24, 2015
Applicant:

Zee Company, Chattanooga, TN (US);

Inventors:

Robert C. Bullard, Signal Mountain, TN (US);

Battle Glascock, Soddy Daisy, TN (US);

James A. Faller, Chattanooga, TN (US);

Jonathon R. Bullard, Chattanooga, TN (US);

Assignee:

Zee Company, Chattanooga, TN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23B 4/26 (2006.01); A23P 1/08 (2006.01); A23B 4/06 (2006.01); B08B 3/04 (2006.01); B65G 15/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23B 4/26 (2013.01); A23B 4/062 (2013.01); A23P 1/08 (2013.01); B08B 3/041 (2013.01); B65G 15/30 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A submersion conveyor system for processing materials that need to be completely submersed in a processing liquid, such as food products, the submersion conveyor system providing a continual looping motion with a conveyor belt and flights providing a semi-enclosed volume for containing the material to be processed, the semi-enclosed volume containing the material to be processed being completely submersed in at least a portion of a processing tank during operation to provide a washing, rinsing, coating, treating, sanitizing and/or chilling or heating of the processing materials.


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