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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2005
William F. Morris, Iii, Raleigh, NC (US);
Terry A. Wright, Cary, NC (US);
John P. Shell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert E. Cathey, Hendersonville, NC (US);
William F. Morris, III, Raleigh, NC (US);
Terry A. Wright, Cary, NC (US);
John P. Shell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert E. Cathey, Hendersonville, NC (US);
Morris & Associates, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
The chiller includes a semi-cylindrical tank () that conforms to the perimeter of its auger () so that the water can be raised to a water level () high above the auger shaft (). Streams of water () are directed from the pulling side () across the lower portion of the tank beneath the auger shaft () to the dead sideof the tank at intervals along the tank so as to disperse the lower portion of the masses () of buoyant birds () from the more crowded pulling side () of the tank, beneath the auger shaft () toward the more vacant dead side () of the tank, thereby distributing the products more evenly throughout the tank and causing more water turbulence in the tank, thereby increasing the rate of heat transfer from the birds and avoiding having the birds cross over the auger shaft moving backward in chiller into a following flight of the auger.