US 11,732,949 B2
Apparatus for cooling high-heat-treated food products, method for performing this, and heat-treatment line for this
Gerhard Brockmann, Aerzen (DE)
Assigned to STEPHAN MACHINERY GMBH, Hameln (DE)
Filed by Stephan Machinery GmbH, Hameln (DE)
Filed on Feb. 4, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/781,612.
Claims priority of application No. 20 2019 000 491.2 (DE), filed on Feb. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0248948 A1, Aug. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. A23C 3/04 (2006.01); F25D 23/06 (2006.01); F25D 17/02 (2006.01); F25D 13/00 (2006.01); A01J 25/13 (2006.01)
CPC F25D 13/00 (2013.01) [A01J 25/13 (2013.01); A23C 3/04 (2013.01); F25D 17/02 (2013.01); F25D 23/061 (2013.01); F25D 2400/28 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for cooling high-heat-treated food products with a flash cooler, having a container for a pre-product to be cooled with an inlet for the pre-product to be cooled and an outlet for a cooled end product of the food product as well as cooling equipment, wherein
said apparatus is adapted for continuous cooling of high-heat-treated food products,
the container having a bowl having the outlet for the cooled end product of the food product and a lid, to which the inlet of the pre-product to be cooled is associated,
wherein the cooling equipment is associated both to the bowl and the lid,
the cooling equipment has a cooling jacket associated to the container through which jacket at least one part of a wall of the container is cooled,
the cooling jacket is located or formed on the bowl and on the lid of the container,
wherein a longitudinal axis of the container is positioned at an acute angle (α) with the vertical such that the bowl provides for the lowest part of the container, and said outlet for the cooled end product of the food product is located a position lower than the center of the bowl, and
wherein the cooling equipment is configured to cool the pre-product and steam generated by the pre-product.