US 12,382,969 B2
Food grade product recovery system
Travis Nebeker, Middleton, ID (US); and Robert Byars, Nampa, ID (US)
Assigned to EvacuPak, Inc., Nampa, ID (US)
Filed by EvacuPak, Inc., Nampa, ID (US)
Filed on Jan. 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/425,588.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/481,905, filed on Jan. 27, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0251827 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. A23L 5/30 (2016.01); A23B 2/00 (2025.01); B65B 69/00 (2006.01)
CPC A23B 2/001 (2025.01) [A23L 5/30 (2016.08); B65B 69/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated, hygienic, food-grade product recovery system comprising:
an evacuation chamber;
a substantially flat surface station upon which one or more packages containing a recoverable, food-grade product are placed, the substantially flat surface station comprising one or more surface-station apertures;
one or more hygienic lances capable of extending through the one or more surface-station apertures and into the one or more packages containing recoverable, food-grade product resting thereon, the one or more hygienic lances each comprising a sharpened penetration end, one or more lance apertures located substantially adjacent to the sharpened penetration end, and an internal extraction tube fluidly connected to both the one or more lance apertures and the evacuation chamber; and
means for holding the one or more packages containing the recoverable, food-grade product stationary during extraction.