US 12,004,527 B2
Infusion plant
Knud Thorsen, Gjern (DK); Claus Riis, Silkeborg (DK); Gorm B. Kjaerulff, Silkeborg (DK); Ole Poulsen, Engesvang (DK); and Claus Thorsen, Silkeborg (DK)
Assigned to SPX Flow Technology Danmark A/S, Silkeborg (DK)
Appl. No. 15/328,247
Filed by SPX FLOW TECHNOLOGY DANMARK A/S, Silkeborg (DK)
PCT Filed May 26, 2015, PCT No. PCT/DK2015/050130
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 23, 2017,
PCT Pub. No. WO2016/012026, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 28, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. PA 2014 00410 (DK), filed on Jul. 25, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2017/0215446 A1, Aug. 3, 2017
Int. Cl. A23C 3/037 (2006.01); A23L 3/16 (2006.01); A23L 3/24 (2006.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01)
CPC A23C 3/037 (2013.01) [A23L 3/16 (2013.01); A23L 3/24 (2013.01); G08B 21/18 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plant for heat treating heat-sensitive fluid foodstuffs comprising:
an infusion chamber, in which the fluid foodstuff is subjected to a heat treatment by a feeding of steam,
a fluid foodstuff inlet connected to a plurality of openings at the top of said infusion chamber for creating a plurality of essentially downwardly directed separate fluid foodstuff jets,
said infusion chamber having a bottom section configured to collect the fluid foodstuff from said fluid foodstuff jets,
said bottom section having an outlet opening at the bottom of said infusion chamber for allowing said collected fluid foodstuff to exit said infusion chamber,
a pump to pump the foodstuff from said outlet opening at said bottom of said infusion chamber, the pump having a top section and an inlet at the top section;
said outlet opening being directly connected to the inlet of said pump without a seam, the pump including a pump housing, wherein the bottom section is defined by a conical sidewall extending to the outlet opening, wherein said outlet opening is part of said bottom section and wherein said pump housing is integrated into said bottom section so that said outlet opening is the inlet of the pump, wherein the transition from said bottom section to said pump is seamless, wherein said transition has a smooth surface without any cracks or fissures, and
a continuous cooling jacket surrounding said bottom section for cooling said bottom section, said cooling jacket extending from said bottom section all the way down into said pump housing to cool both the bottom section and the top section of the pump, wherein the cooling jacket is configured to guide cooling water from the pump housing to said bottom section.