Device for the piping of process systems in the food and beverage industry

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8714185
APP PUB NO 20110192475A1
SERIAL NO

13056831

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A device for the piping of process systems in the food and beverage industry in that:

    the respective valve distributor tree (rvdt) opens immediately into the lower tank bottom of a respectively associated tank of the process system, and/orthe rvdt is connected via an associated pipe connection to an associated process aggregate or to the lower tank bottom of the process apparatus, and the pipe connection opens out into the tank-side or process-aggregate-side end of the valve distributor tree (vdt);a stirring device (16) which is operative in the entire interior space of the hollow structure is disposed in the vdt; and/orthe vdt with the entire interior space of the hollow structure is part of a circulation line which extends over the tank or the process aggregate; and/orthe vdt can be recuperatively acted upon by a heat transfer medium (W).

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GEA TUCHENHAGEN GMBHAM INDUSTRIEPARK 2-10 BÜCHEN 21514

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Burmester, Jens Grambek, DE 32 86
Duerig, Andreas Visalia, US 1 1
Medlar, David West Friendship, US 1 1
Nangpal, Ashok Ellicott Citi, US 1 1
Suedel, Matthias Ratekau, DE 6 14

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