Abstract: A standard industrial pressure gauge is adapted for a sanitary conduit that has been provided with a tubular stub for mounting the gauge. A cylinder has a disk flange that mates with an upper flange of the tubular stub. A cap closes off the top of the cylinder, and a female threaded nipple is affixed on the cap over an aperture through the cap. A piston has one or a pair of O-ring seals seated on the circumferential surface of the piston, with the piston having at least a limited range of motion within the cylinder. The gauge is fitted into the threads of the nipple, and the space above the piston and through the aperture and the nipple is filled with an incompressible fluid. In one embodiment, there is a leak detector hole in the cylinder wall aligned with the space between the two O-rings.

Abstract: A standard industrial temperature gauge is adapted for a sanitary conduit that has been provided with a tubular stub for mounting the temperature gauge. A disk flange mates with an upper flange of the tubular stub. A aperture or passageway in the disk flange permits the rod probe of the temperature sensor to penetrate through it. An O-ring seal seated within the passageway seals against the rod probe. A female threaded nipple is affixed on the flange disk coaxial with the passageway. This nipple has threads to mate with the male threaded stem of the temperature gauge. A sealing gland or equivalent seal is disposed between the disk flange and the flange of the said tubular stub, so that the sanitary conduit is sealed off when a clamp is installed, removably holding the flange disk in sealed engagement with the tubular stub.

Abstract: Self-help or do-it-yourself productions of collegiate athletic contests are generated by the originating institution, and the recorded production is sent by overnight courier to a central digital clearing house. Alternatively, the production can be live and transmitted as streamlined video data to the clearing house. At the clearing house the contents of the recording are loaded onto a computer processor and the video and audio channels are digitally processing to prepare the program for digital storage and retransmission. The content is stored in a digital memory arrangement with capacity sufficient for storing a multiplicity of these video recordings. A web transmitter processor transmits the video recordings of these events to subscribers on demand over wide-band, high-speed Internet connections. The content may be edited at the clearing house. The clearing house provides a custom video player or viewer for each recorded production.

Abstract: A pasteurization arrangement employs regeneration to bring raw milk or other liquid food product up to a few degrees below a UHT pasteurizing temperature. The product is first heated up by regeneration to about 175° F., and held at this temperature for about sixty seconds to denaturize proteins so that they do not deposit on the heat exchange walls of following stages. Then the product proceeds through a product-product regenerative heat exchanger where it emerges at about 264° and proceeds to a water-product heater to heat the product to 280° F. The water flows in counter current to the product. The temperature differential at any reference point in the heater and the regenerative heat exchanger is below 20°, and the ratio of rate of water flow to product flow in the heater is below about 3:1.

Abstract: A pasteurization/homogenization arrangement with regeneration brings raw milk or other liquid food product up to a few degrees below a UHT pasteurizing temperature. The product is denaturized at 175° F. so that proteins do not deposit out. The product proceeds through a product-product regenerative heat exchanger where it emerges at about 260°. Here a homogenizer serves a timing pump and avoids the need for an additional pump or flow meter for the UHT stage. The homogenized product proceeds to a water-product heater to heat the product to 280° F. The temperature differential at any reference point in the heater and the regenerative heat exchanger is below 20°, and the ratio of rate of water flow to product flow in the heater is below about 3:1. More efficient homogenization is achieved than at the conventional temperature (175° F.).

Abstract: Self-help or do-it-yourself productions of collegiate athletic contests are generated by the originating institution, and the recorded production is sent by overnight courier to a central digital clearing house. Alternatively, the production can be live and transmitted as streamlined video data to the clearing house. At the clearing house the contents of the recording are loaded onto a computer processor and the video and audio channels are digitally processing to prepare the program for digital storage and retransmission. The content is stored in a digital memory arrangement with capacity sufficient for storing a multiplicity of these video recordings. A web transmitter processor transmits the video recordings of these events to subscribers on demand over wide-band, high-speed Internet connections. The games or meets can be selected by the subscriber, which are indexed in categories including originating institution, type of event, and date of event.

Abstract: A sanitary tank is provided with a clean-in-place agitator assembly in which the impeller portion is removably installed at the tip or the shaft or along the shaft. A shaft housing that penetrates the wall of the tank employs lip seals around the drive shaft so that cleaning fluid supplied at an inlet pipe will spray out through the interior or distal lip seal for spraying the proximal side of the impeller. The impeller is mounted on a non-round drive portion at the tip of the drive shaft, avoiding need for welding or threaded fasteners. A vertical stirrer or impeller has a square drive shaft with transverse grooves, and blades that are removably fitted into respective pairs of these grooves.