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Primary Examiner: Bashore, S. Leon
Assistant Examiner: Alvo, Steve
Attorney: Flehr, Hohbach, Test, Albritton & Herbert

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Title: Method for heating and cooking foods in a closed treatment chamber by maintaining the temperature and moisture content

Abstract: The cooking process comprises the steps of providing a food treatment chamber equipped with a vapor pervious conveyor; preparing a moving stream of a process vapor at a temperature having a lower range of between 165.degree. F. to 212.degree. F.; circulating the stream along the conveyor; injecting water vapor into the moving stream of process vapor and supplying heat to the moving stream to control the temperature and moisture content of the process vapor; placing the food product in discrete pieces upon the conveyor; and moving the product continuously in its original position on the conveyor through the treatment chamber.


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Inventors: Caridis, Andrew A. (Foster City, CA, US)
Benson, Clark K. (Millbrae, CA, US)

Application Number: 853503
Filing Date: 1977-11-21
Publication_date: 1979-09-11
Assignee: Heat and Control, Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Class(es): 426/233 99/331, 99/443C, 99/446, 99/474, 426/307, 426/438, 426/510, 426/511, 426/523, 432/22, 432/37
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:
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3199436Aug, 1965Rasmussen et al.99/473.
3224881Dec, 1965Holtz426/510.
3237551Mar, 1966Keifer99/475.
3644124Feb, 1972Bedsole426/233.
3736860Jun, 1973Vische, Jr.99/443.
3764343Oct, 1973Paugh426/523.
3815488Jun, 1974Van Dyk, Jr.99/443.
3865964Feb, 1975Kellermeier et al.426/438.
3910175Oct, 1975Smith99/477.

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Other References: Tressler et al., "The Freezing Preservation of Foods", vol. 3, pp. 270-271, Easton, Pa., Avi Publishing Co. Inc.