Abstract: A seal-break pliers used to separate components in food processing, chemical, or pharmaceutical manufacturing or processing system. The seal-break pliers including a first section and a second section. Each section includes a handle, a head section, and a transition section disposed and angularly orientated between the handle and the head section. A fastener pivotally couples the first section to the second section such that displacing the first and second handles toward each other results in a relative movement of the head sections toward each other. Each head portion includes a guide projection, a flange notch adjacent to the guide projection, and a wedge projection adjacent to the flange notch. The flange notch is configured to receive a portion of the flange of a component. The wedge projection may include a pointed edge proximate the flange notch and an inclined surface extending away from the pointed edge.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cryogenic processing comprising a chamber having a specially optimized configuration and geometry and having internal insert array of pathways and supporting elements to facilitate advanced materials processing. The pathways and supporting components can be configured by bending and positioning in different planes with bending the pathways with optimal radii and in different planes. The pathways bending radii can be within an optimal range for the size of the chamber and the angles between the pathway bending planes can be within an optimal range. The angles between the supporting components positioning planes and the pathway bending planes can be in an optimal range. The invention can also include structural supporting components that are attached at the pathway small movement points and the length of attachment can vary from about approximately zero to the full length of the supporting component.