A cooling tool (1) for a food or an animal feed extruder (E), the cooling tool has: an inlet end (3) at which extrudate (4) can be led into the cooling tool (1); an outlet end (5) where the cooled extrudate can be discharged; an extrudate flow channel (6) extending from the inlet end to the outlet end; and at least one coolant flow channel (7a, 7b, 7b′) connected to the extrudate flow channel in a heat-transmitting manner. In a cross section (X-X) along the primary flow direction (8), the extrudate flow channel is substantially formed as a ring section; and the outer wall (9) of the extrudate flow channel (6) is formed at least from first and second segments (10, 11). The first and second segments are connected to each other by mechanical connection elements (12). The cooling tool is suitable for wet texturing of food and animal feed.

Methods and devices heat or cool viscous materials, such as meat emulsions useful for producing food and other products. The devices have a heat exchanger including a first plate, a second plate attached to the first plate, and a first spacer and a second spacer arranged between the first plate and the second plate. The first plate, the second plate, the first spacer, and the second spacer define at least one temperature controlled passage for a product to pass through the heat exchanger.

A cooling device for reducing the temperature of cooked warm food in a liquid or paste-like state held in a container, in particular in a standard trolley, is provided. The cooling device includes a plate-like covering member which covers the opening cross-section of the container or of the standard trolley, wherein the covering member has vertically arranged cooling elements on the lower face thereof, which cooling elements, when the cooling device is attached and lowered, are immersed in the density of the food and a cooling medium circulates through the cooling elements, which cooling medium extracts the stored heat from the food. A stripping plate designed as a perforated sheet or as a perforated plate is provided on the lower face of the covering member, which stripping plate removes remaining food from the cooling elements during withdrawal of the cooling device.

The present invention relates to an assembled material tube of hot and cold foods supplying machine, including a plurality of material tube bodies, in which penetrating feed channels are provided internally; each of the material tube bodies has a cooling channel provided with an inlet and an outlet to respectively and correspondingly input and output a working fluid through the cooling channel for performing thermal exchanges, whereby cooling occurs in segmentations for each of the feed channels; a plurality of temperature measurement units each of which is provided with a detecting end for detecting a temperature in the corresponding feed channel; and a plurality of heating units perform heating in segmentations for each of the feed channels. Accordingly, said machine can be separately used as hot food supplying machine or cold food supplying machine, so as to achieve the aim of using one machine for two purposes.

An improved baffle assembly for heat exchanger tubes comprising a shaft and at least one opposing pair of expanding baffles positioned coaxially on the shaft, each expanding baffle comprising a central hub portion and a plurality of extension portions each radiating outward from the hub portion at complementary oblique angles so that the central hub portions of each baffle are spaced apart along the shaft and the distal ends of the extension portions of each baffle are brought into physical contact.

The present invention relates to a batch reactor system designed to conduct heat-induced food-processing transformations. Particularly, the invention describes a Recirculation Flow-Loop Batch (RFLB) Reactor for conducting high-temperature transformations, preferably at short conversion times, which involve non-Newtonian high-viscosity formulations, where the reactants are preferably natural food ingredients. The invention further relates to a method for reducing burn-on effects of ingredients of the formulation when heated and cooled in a RFLB reactor.

A method for cooling a mixed beverage formed with one or more beverage components includes circulating a refrigerant through a heat exchanger having a phase change material to cool a beverage component and sensing a temperature of the refrigerant. The method further includes detecting a first instance when the sensed temperature of the refrigerant equals a threshold refrigerant temperature, detecting a second instance when the sensed temperature of the refrigerant equals the threshold refrigerant temperature, and stopping circulation of the refrigerant when the second instance is detected.

A cooling tool (1) for a food or an animal feed extruder (E), the cooling tool has: an inlet end (3) at which extrudate (4) can be led into the cooling tool (1); an outlet end (5) where the cooled extrudate can be discharged; an extrudate flow channel (6) extending from the inlet end to the outlet end; and at least one coolant flow channel (7a, 7b, 7b) connected to the extrudate flow channel in a heat-transmitting manner. In a cross section (X-X) along the primary flow direction (8), the extrudate flow channel is substantially formed as a ring section; and the outer wall (9) of the extrudate flow channel (6) is formed at least from first and second segments (10, 11). The first and second segments are connected to each other by mechanical connection elements (12). The cooling tool is suitable for wet texturing of food and animal feed.

A device, for cooling a liquid, especially a beverage, comprising a cold accumulator and a thermal line, the cold accumulator and the liquid to be cooled being thermally connected by means of the thermal line, and the cold accumulator comprising a phase change material, the device also comprising means for dissipating heat from at least the thermal line, and the cold accumulator comprising a carrier material into which the phase change material is integrated.

This invention relates generally to the distribution of a flushing gas during a packaging process. More specifically, the invention relates to an apparatus and method for the distribution of a flushing gas that displaces an undesirable gas from a packaging container during such a process, the apparatus and method optimizing the displacement of the undesirable gas within the container while also minimizing associated equipment costs and cleaning efforts.