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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2000
Richard W. Cartwright, Piqua, OH (US);
Carl St-Laurent, St-Bonaventure, CA;
David Charles Edelmann, Troy, OH (US);
Stephen R. Willoughby, Dayton, OH (US);
John Joseph Everhart, Springfield, OH (US);
Brett J. Beaty, West Milton, OH (US);
Premark FEG L.L.C., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A chiller includes a chilling compartment for receiving food products to be chilled and a chilling system for delivering chilled air to the chilling compartment during chilling operations. A controller effects operation of the chilling system and includes associated memory storing a plurality of food product data entries. Each food product data entry includes a food product name and at least one associated chilling operation setting for the food product. A user input device is associated with the controller. The controller is operable in conjunction with the user input device to permit a user to select a particular food product data entry such that the controller retrieves at least one chilling operation setting of the particular food product data entry for use in a subsequent chilling operation. The chiller may also include a label printing mechanism for printing chilling operation summary labels which can be applied to food product containers.