The invention provides a method for cooling, transporting and storing food items without using ice for the transport and the storage using a new method of cooling the food items below zero to prolong shelf-life and quality of the product. Furthermore, the present invention provides a new method for delivering a fresh food items to the market with data collection for quality grading and batching.
The present invention relates to a method and a device for treating and/or transporting food items. The apparatus and method are designed to facilitate treating food items in liquid. The device of the present invention is designed as a spiral pump with a tubing that is wound around a frame structure which rotates around a horizontal axis. The apparatus of the present invention and the use thereof provides a method to treat food items in a spiral pump, where the food items are treated cycle by cycle in the pump.
A23L 3/3409 - Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general, e.g. pasteurising, sterilising, specially adapted for foods or foodstuffs by treatment with chemicals in the form of gases, e.g. fumigation; Compositions or apparatus therefor
A23L 3/00 - Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general, e.g. pasteurising, sterilising, specially adapted for foods or foodstuffs
The present invention relates to a method and a device for treating and/or transporting food items. The apparatus and method are designed to facilitate treating animals or food items in liquid. The device of the present invention is designed as a spiral pump with a tubing that is wound together with a rotating structure around a horizontal axis. The apparatus of the present invention and the use thereof provides a method to treat living or slaughtered animals or food items in a spiral pump.
A method and device for freezing food items in a controlled and homogeneous manner. The method and device use plate freezers to bring the food items in a regulated manner through the whole freezing process.
F25D 13/06 - Stationary devices associated with refrigerating machinery, e.g. cold rooms with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space
The invention provides a device and a method for conveying and treating food items in liquid in a tank. The device is designed for transferring and treating food items in liquid simultaneously, such as cooling, thawing or treating the food items with additives. The blade of the invention is a dual action blade as it both advances the food items along the container as well as creating repeated forward and backwards pushing of the items as the blade is rotated.
A22B 5/00 - Accessories for use during or after slaughtering
A22C 7/00 - Apparatus for pounding, forming, or pressing meat, sausage-meat, or meat products
A22C 9/00 - Apparatus for tenderising meat, e.g. ham
A22C 25/08 - Holding, guiding, or conveying fish before, during or after its preparation
B65G 33/30 - Screws with a discontinuous helical surface
F25D 13/06 - Stationary devices associated with refrigerating machinery, e.g. cold rooms with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space
The present invention provides a new method, system and device to transport and treat or prepare food items, such as fish, for further processing. Furthermore, the new system also provides a solution for reducing the use of processing liquid or refrigerated sea water (RSW) or food processing or transfer fluid in order to reduce the environmental footprint comprising a water footprint and a carbon footprint of a food product.
F25D 9/00 - Devices not associated with refrigerating machinery and not covered by groups ; Combinations of devices covered by two or more of the groups
F25D 13/06 - Stationary devices associated with refrigerating machinery, e.g. cold rooms with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space
F25D 15/00 - Devices associated with refrigerating machinery not covered by group or , e.g. non-self-contained movable devices
F25D 17/02 - Arrangements for circulating cooling fluids; Arrangements for circulating gas, e.g. air, within refrigerated spaces for circulating liquids, e.g. brine
F25D 25/04 - Charging, supporting, or discharging the articles to be cooled by conveyors
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TRANSFER DEVICE FOR MOVING A STACK OF TUBS IN CARGOHOLD OF A VESSEL
The present invention relates to system for managing cargo tubs in a cargo hold of a vessel, such as a fishing vessel. The functional components of the present invention comprise means such as stacking devices for loading the cargo hold with tubs and forming stacks, rails and wagons and pushing and pulling structures as transport means for transporting the stack of tubs.
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a system for managing and securing cargo tubs in stacks in a cargo hold of a vessel, such as a fishing vessel. The functional components of the apparatus and system comprise means such as rails or transport lanes, wagons and pushing structures as transport means for securely managing stacks of tubs in the cargo hold both during sailing and off-loading.
The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a system for generating vision information on food items in large quantities, such as fish, before the items are fed onto a grading device. Moreover, the present invention relates a method of generating information for authorities for catch control monitoring and to prevent throwaway of a catch.
Method and device for freezing food items in a gradual process, where the food items are first put through under-cooling before the food items are placed in a container or receptacle for freezing. The method and device are particularly suitable for freezing freshly slaughtered and bled fish for later processing.
F25D 13/06 - Stationary devices associated with refrigerating machinery, e.g. cold rooms with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space
The present invention relates to a method, a system and an apparatus for treating food items. Such method and device may, for instance, be used to cool down food items, bleed freshly slaughtered fish and treat live fish against parasites. The device and method of the present invention further uses temperature differences and agitation to tread food items. A method for reducing or eliminating sea lice from salmon fish, said method comprising: a) transporting the salmon fish from a reservoir and the feeding salmon fish in liquid into the tubing of a first pumping device, said liquid being at a temperature from +15 to +28°C, b) transporting the salmon fish in liquid through the tubing of the pumping device at a first set time period for treatment in said liquid, c) feeding the salmon fish out of the first pumping device, d) separating the liquid from the salmon fish, and e) transporting the salmon fish back to the reservoir, wherein the liquid media from the pumping device is redirected after separation from the salmon fish in step d) through a heat exchange element back into the pumping device for continued treatment of further salmon fish, and wherein the temperature difference between the liquid used in steps b) and the reservoir is more than 15°C.
A22C 25/08 - Holding, guiding, or conveying fish before, during or after its preparation
A22C 25/14 - Beheading, eviscerating, or cleaning fish
A23L 3/22 - Preservation of foods or foodstuffs, in general, e.g. pasteurising, sterilising, specially adapted for foods or foodstuffs by heating loose unpacked materials while they are progressively transported through the apparatus with transport through tubes
B65G 53/30 - Conveying materials in bulk through pipes or tubes by liquid pressure
The present invention relates to a method and a device for treating and/or transporting food items. The apparatus and method are designed to facilitate treating food items in liquid. The device of the present invention is designed as a spiral pump with a tubing that is wound around a frame structure which rotates around a horizontal axis. The apparatus of the present invention and the use thereof provides a method to treat food items in a spiral pump, where the food items are treated cycle by cycle in the pump.
A22C 25/08 - Holding, guiding, or conveying fish before, during or after its preparation
F28D 7/02 - Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall the conduits being helically coiled
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FREEZING AND PACKING FOOD ITEMS
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for freezing fish or processed fish items in trays. The invention provides a system where the items are frozen in plate freezers and in an automated manner providing packings for universal storing and transport systems. The apparatus comprises: a plurality of trays for the holding and transferring food items to be frozen tray, a plate freezer for vertical freezing the food items in the trays, a device for transferring the trays into the plate freezer, a device for transferring the trays out of the plate freeze, a device for transferring the trays to a packing station, a device for gripping and turning/rotating the tray for ejecting the content from the tray at a packing station, wherein the tray holds the food items through the process of freezing and packing in a fully automated process.
F25D 13/06 - Stationary devices associated with refrigerating machinery, e.g. cold rooms with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space
An apparatus and a method for grading sensitive products. The apparatus and a method treat the objects to be graded gently and is accurate and may be constructed so as to handle extremely large quantities. The grading device (1) has grading channels that are wider at the outlet than at the intake. A belt machine draws the objects forward between two inclined belts (6) which form the channel. The device and the method make possible to make corrections in the grading process and to fine-tune the grading unit during the grading process.
The present invention relates to a method, a system and an apparatus for tracing fish through batching, bleeding and cooling fish for later processing. Such apparatus and method may, for instance, be used to facilitate the bleeding process of freshly caught fish after slaughtering in a batch on board a fishing vessel and providing a cooling process of a batch as a whole.
The present invention relates to a method, a system and an apparatus for rinsing, cooling, bleeding and adding substances to food items. Such method and device may, for instance, be used to cool down and add anti-bacterial substances to food items during the cooling process. The device of the present invention is designed as a spiral pump with a tubing that is helically wound and rotates around a horizontal axis.
The present invention relates to a method and a device for bleeding fish. Such apparatus of method may, for instance, be used to facilitate the bleeding process of freshly caught fish after slaughtering in a processing line on board a fishing vessel. For instance, the bleeding method may be used to increase the value of the fish.
The invention provides a method for cooling, transporting and storing wet food product without using ice for the transport and the storage using a new method of cooling the food products below zero to prolong shelf-life and quality of the product. Furthermore, the present invention provides a new method for delivering a fresh food product to the market with reduced water footprint and carbon footprint.
A23B 4/09 - Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling with addition of chemicals before or during cooling with direct contact between the food and the chemical, e.g. liquid N2, at cryogenic temperature
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METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DELAYING RIGOR MORTIS IN FISH
The invention provides a method and an apparatus for bringing fish to and under-cooled state. The invention provides an improved method where fish is brought to an under-cooled state by a sub-chilling process before processing, which prolongs rigor and allows processing of the fish in rigor providing better quality fish products.
A23B 4/08 - Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling with addition of chemicals before or during cooling
A23B 4/09 - Freezing; Subsequent thawing; Cooling with addition of chemicals before or during cooling with direct contact between the food and the chemical, e.g. liquid N2, at cryogenic temperature
The present invention relates to a method and a device for individual feeding of fish into a processing line. Such method and device may, for instance, be used for receiving, gilling and gutting freshly caught fish in a processing line on board a fishing vessel. For instance, the in-feeding apparatus and method may be used to increase the value of the fish by speeding up the time until the fish is chilled for storing.
A22C 25/04 - Sorting fish; Separating ice from fish packed in ice
A22C 25/06 - Work-tables; Fish-holding or auxiliary devices in connection with work-tables
A22C 25/08 - Holding, guiding, or conveying fish before, during or after its preparation
B65G 15/20 - Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface with two or more endless belts arranged side by side, e.g. for conveyance of flat articles in vertical position
B65G 15/22 - Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising a series of co-operating units
B65G 37/00 - Combinations of mechanical conveyors of the same kind, or of different kinds, of interest apart from their application in particular machines or use in particular manufacturing processes
B65G 43/08 - Control devices operated by article or material being fed, conveyed, or discharged
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
B65G 47/50 - Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyors with distribution, e.g. automatically, to desired points according to destination signals stored in separate systems
B65G 15/14 - Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface with two or more endless belts the load being conveyed between the belts
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APPARATUS FOR IMAGING, SORTING AND BATCHING WHOLE FISH
The present invention relates to a method and a device for batching fish into cooling devices. The method and the device can be used for receiving fish after bleeding and gutting freshly caught fish on board a fishing vessel and batching the fish into cooling devices. The batching and cooling apparatus and method may be used to increase the value of the fish by shortening the time from the fish is caught until the fish is chilled for storing.
The present invention relates to an apparatus for batching items such as fish. The object is specifically to batch smaller items like pelagic fish, such as mackerel and herring or salmon. The batching apparatus and method of the present invention uses at least one image means to provide faster batching with more accuracy and less give-away.
The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a fishing vessel for tracing items such as fish. The object is specifically to trace smaller items like pelagic fish, such as mackerel and herring or salmon. The tracing apparatus and method uses at least one image means to provide tracing of each item in a batch, where image data is linked to an ID number of the batch.
The invention provides a method for processing under-cooled fish. The invention provides an improved method where whole fish is brought to an under-cooled state by super-chilling before processing. Whole fish is brought to an under-cooled state in at least two steps by means of i) placing the fish in a salt-controlled solution and/or slurry ice having a salt concentration of 0,1 to 23,3% and a temperature of 8 to -21°C and ii) transferring the fish in salt-controlled solution and/ or slurry ice having a salt concentration of 0-15% and a temperature of 5 to -10°C. Therefter the fish is processed. The invention further provides an apparatus for processing fish comprising a cooling tank with at least two compartments to perform at least steps i) and ii).
F25D 13/06 - Stationary devices associated with refrigerating machinery, e.g. cold rooms with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space
F25D 3/11 - Devices using other cold materials; Devices using cold-storage bodies using liquefied gases, e.g. liquid air with conveyors carrying articles to be cooled through the cooling space
The invention provides an apparatus and method to flay food products or skin fish fillets, different speed of belts (1, 5) and drum (2) as well as a push-down conveyor (3) to press the food product against the blade, with dynamically variable pressure in response to the food items being fed to the cutting device.
The present invention relates to a method and a device for periodic in feeding of boxes containing food items into plate freezers. The invention solves problems relating to handling of boxes, where traditional methods damage the boxes and the harm the food objects within the boxes. The new method and device solve this problem in such an automatic and periodic manner that food items can be frozen in sensitive packing such as thin carton boxes.
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