Patent ID: 9462814
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: A22B,A23B,A23G,F25D,F28C,F28F

Claim Text:
1. A rocker chiller, comprising: a tank configured to hold a body of heat exchanging liquid therein, said tank including a concave-shaped bottom wall; a dasher assembly including an axle extending in a lengthwise direction across at least a portion of said tank and a dasher blade extending in the lengthwise direction adjacent the concave-shaped bottom wall, said dasher blade mechanically coupled to the axle by a plurality of support arms extending in a radial direction between the axle and the dasher blade; and at least a first carcass deflector fixedly attached to the axle so that each back-and-forth oscillation of the axle and dasher blade during operation of the rocker chiller causes a corresponding back-and-forth oscillation of the first carcass deflector in unison with the back-and-forth oscillation of the axle and dasher blade, said first carcass deflector: (i) spaced longitudinally along a longitudinal axis of the axle relative to all of the plurality of support arms so that no direct contact is present between the first carcass deflector and any of the plurality of support arms and (ii) having a carcass deflection region therein that extends above a top surface of the axle and in a plane that is generally orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the axle.