Patents by Inventor George R. Millard, Jr.

George R. Millard, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Serpentine food processing with closed-loop recirculation
    Patent number: 5253569
    Abstract: A food processing system (100) includes a food processing chamber (102) for processing a food product, a serpentine conveyor (104) having a plurality of parallel flights connected at their ends by U-shaped bends, and a recirculation system for supplying a processing medium to the chamber and recirculating the processing medium along a closed-loop unidirectional recirculation path having a supply path portion (106) along and parallel to a first set of flights (108), and a return path portion (110) along and parallel to a second set of flights (112). A blower (114) has a high pressure supply side (116) supplying the processing medium to the supply path portion, and a low pressure return side (118) drawing the processing medium from the return path portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: DEC International, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude L. McFarlane, Daniel J. Cody, George R. Millard, Jr.