Patents Assigned to Unitherm Food Systems, LLC
  • Spiral oven apparatus and method of cooking
    Patent number: 10334983
    Abstract: A spiral oven and a method of cooking a food product in a spiral oven using a cooking medium wherein (a) the food product is conveyed within the oven cooking chamber by a spiral conveyor having a plurality of spiral flites and (b) the cooking medium is discharged either upwardly and/or downwardly within, or laterally into, one or more vertical gaps between adjacent pairs of spiral flites using one or more delivery duct structures which extend inside the interior of the cooking chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Unitherm Food Systems, LLC
    Inventor: David Howard
  • Spiral chiller apparatus and method of chilling
    Patent number: 9791201
    Abstract: A spiral chiller and a method of chilling a food product in a spiral chiller using a cooling medium wherein (a) the food product is conveyed within the chiller by a spiral conveyor having a plurality of spiral flutes and (b) the cooling medium is discharged either upwardly and/or downwardly within, and/or laterally into, one or more vertical gaps between adjacent pairs of spiral flutes using one or more delivery duct structures which extend inside the interior of the product chilling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Unitherm Food Systems, LLC
    Inventor: David Howard