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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.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 02, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Philip M Grant, Norcross, GA (US);
Assignee:
APV Gaulin, Inc., Everett, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ; B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426519 ; 159 171 ; 159 471 ; 159D / ; 202174 ; 426599 ;
Abstract
A citrus juice concentrate processing homogenizes a mixture of citrus juice and pulp within or after a multi-effect, multi-stage evaporator. The homogenizer employs a positive displacement pump for pumping the citrus juice mixture through an orifice with a high pressure differential across the orifice. The homogenizer reduces viscosity of the citrus juice mixture. Inter-stage placement of the homogenizer further enables final citrus juice concentrate Brix levels of 72.degree. Brix and greater to be achieved.