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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:
Jun. 04, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
David G Wardle, Tadworth, GB;
Assignee:
The BOC Group plc, Windlesham, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62374 ; 62 63 ;
Abstract
A substantially U-shaped immersion freezer having an inlet and an outlet and an immersion zone filled with liquid refrigerant. Product to be frozen is passed into the freezer through the inlet and raised by at least one paddle member to the outlet. The resulting frozen product and some liquid refrigerant is then passed out of the outlet to a conveyor having holes provided therein which allow the liquid refrigerant to be drained from the frozen product for recycling back to the inlet side of the freezer.