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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8151593 | Embedding method and apparatus for the preparation of frozen section tissue Various embodiments for an apparatus and method for preparing frozen tissue specimens are described. In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a sample container for receiving an excised tissue sample and embedding material. The sample container includes a ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7353658 | Systems and methods for freezing, storing, transporting, and thawing biopharmacuetical material A system for freezing, thawing, transporting, and storing a biopharmaceutical material, which includes a container, a supporting structure, a temperature control unit, and a transportation cart. The container is adapted to receive the biopharmaceutical material ther... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7275906 | Waste/recyclables loading machine A waste loading device for loading waste/recyclables into a container includes a base portion positionable at a loading station, a loading tube extending from the base portion and a pushing member. The loading tube has a discharge end and is configured to be receive... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7257953 | Apparatus and method for preparing frozen tissue specimens An apparatus and method for preparing frozen tissue specimens includes a base supporting a pair of rotary motion platforms and a center platform. The rotary motion platforms are movable from an open, side-by-side position to a closed, center platform-covering positi... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7220441 | Method and a packaging for packaging and freezing food substances A method of packaging and freezing food substance comprising shaping of a plate of unfrozen food substance and subsequent packaging and freezing of the unfrozen plate of food substance, and wherein a carton packaging is used for packaging the unfrozen plate of the f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7137261 | Systems and methods for freezing, mixing and thawing biopharmaceutical material A system for controlled freezing, storing and thawing of a biopharmaceutical material includes a cavity for receiving a container for holding the biopharmaceutical material. Further included are at least a pair of opposed surfaces facing the biopharmaceutical materi... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7104074 | Systems and methods for freezing, storing, transporting and thawing biopharmaceutical material A system for freezing, thawing, transporting, and storing a biopharmaceutical material, which includes a container, a supporting structure, a temperature control unit, and a transportation cart. The container is adapted to receive the biopharmaceutical material ther... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7044287 | Conveyor belt washer A conveyor belt washer for cleaning a moving conveyor belt with a pressurized fluid. The conveyor belt washer includes a washtank, a spray assembly located within the washtank and having at least one spray head rotatably mounted with respect to the tank, and at leas... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7021081 | Dry ice block extruder A method and device for forming slabs of dry ice is shown. A dry ice extruding machine has been modified with a die that has a slot for extruding a slab of dry ice therethrough. The slot is blocked until a puck is formed in an end of a forming chamber of the dry ice... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013657 | Ice maker An ice maker is capable of efficiently making and removing ice cubes. The ice maker includes first and second pulleys which are installed to be spaced apart from each other. A drive unit rotates the first and second pulleys. An ice making conveyor is wrapped around ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6996995 | Systems and methods for freezing and storing biopharmaceutical material The present invention provides a system for freezing, thawing, and storing biopharmaceutical materials which includes a flexible container, a conduit, and a temperature control unit. The flexible container is adapted to receive a biopharmaceutical material therein f... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6958089 | Structure of an electrostatic precipitator An electrostatic precipitator includes a frame, several parallel square metallic rods securely disposed in the frame, and several metallic boards positioned parallel in the frame for charges to be deposited on, and spacing elements; the metallic boards have through ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6945056 | Systems and methods for freezing, mixing and thawing biopharmaceutical material A system for controlled freezing, storing and thawing of a biopharmaceutical material includes a cavity for receiving a container for holding the biopharmaceutical material. Further included are at least a pair of opposed surfaces facing the biopharmaceutical materi... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6725673 | Apparatus and method for preparing frozen tissue specimens An apparatus and method for preparing frozen tissue specimens includes a base supporting a pair of rotary motion platforms and a center platform. The rotary motion platforms are each movable from an open, side-by-side position to a closed, center platform-covering p... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6536219 | Apparatus and method for precision cryoembedding of tissue samples An apparatus for quick freezing tissue specimens has the advantage of precise predictable embedding orientation. The apparatus includes embedding wells, chucks and over-chuck cooling blocks. Additional components include a cooled cutting board, freezing p... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6389838 | Apparatus for reducing microbe content in foodstuffs by pH and physical manipulation A manipulating apparatus (10) receives a plurality of previously frozen pieces of pH modified foodstuffs or workpieces (23) and physically manipulates or stresses the workpieces while they remain in a frozen state. The physical manipulation causes relativ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6289682 | Specimen preparation apparatus An apparatus for forming an amorphous tissue specimen into a cooled block while preserving the anatomical orientation of the specimen includes a base assembly, a system of magnetic movable wall units and a cover which may be intercoupled to form an enclos... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6244069 | Apparatus for producing solid carbon dioxide An apparatus (10) for producing carbon dioxide blocks is disclosed having a formation unit (14) which forms carbon dioxide blocks from carbon dioxide pellets conveyed to the formation unit (14). The formation unit includes a cylindrical hopper (17) having... | 06/12/2001 |
| 5935848 | Deep-freezing container A container that may be closed all around is useful for deepfreezing suspensions of living cellular materials kept in elastic bags. The container has two plane-parallel thin-walled metallic plates (14, 16) secured in swivellingly interconnected frame halv... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5752394 | Apparatus for producing ice vessel An apparatus for automatically producing ice vessels. Ice masses produced by ice making machine 3 is crushed to pieces by ice crusher 1. Then, the ice pieces are fed from an outlet chute 2A of the ice crusher 1 to one of female dies 12, which are provided... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5743105 | Apparatus for producing ice vessel An apparatus for automatically producing ice vessels. Ice masses produced by ice making machine 3 is crushed to pieces by ice crusher 1. Then, the ice pieces are fed from an outlet chute 2A of the ice crusher 1 to one of female dies 12, which are provided... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5634344 | Method for producing ice vessel and apparatus therefor An apparatus or method for automatically producing ice vessels. A male die 21 is provided opposite to a female die 11. A bottom surface of the female die 11 is formed with a through-hole 15, in which is provided a reciprocating body 17. The body 17 is cap... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5628197 | Tissue freezing apparatus An apparatus for quick freezing tissue specimens includes a base supporting a linear motion platform and a rotational motion platform. Each of the platforms includes a plurality of discs for covering and receiving respectfully specimen to be frozen. Each ... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5528907 | Method and apparatus for automatically producing a small block of solid carbon dioxide A new METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PRODUCING A SMALL BLOCK OF SOLID CARBON DIOXIDE is disclosed and described. The new method and apparatus is comprised of an electrical solenoid operated liquid fill valve, a dry ice block forming chamber having... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5520010 | Apparatus for forming stacking surfaces on flexible film freezer bags Apparatus for forming substantially parallel upper and lower surfaces on flexible freezer bags containing freezable materials so that upon freezing the packages are readily stackable one above another. The apparatus includes a rigid base plate having a pl... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5419138 | Pellet extruding machine An extruder for converting pressurized liquid CO2 feed into dry ice pellets of predetermined shape and size, wherein the CO2 snow formation, CO2 snow compaction, and dry ice pellet extrusion phases occur simultaneously to ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5352472 | Method and apparatus for producing a frozen crust on a food loaf An apparatus and process are described for quickly freezing the surface of certain loaf-shaped products prior to slicing. The apparatus of the invention includes a heat exchanger having a shaped contact surface thereon. The heat exchanger is positioned to... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5213029 | Apparatus for treating food under high pressure An apparatus for treating food under isostatic high pressure applied by a liquid pressure medium which comprises a high-pressure vessel forming therein a treating chamber in which food is placed, a pressure medium tank adjacent to said high-pressure vesse... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5148739 | Trash handling and storage system A unique automated and comprehensive through-the-wall waste handling and storage system for treating organic and inorganic waste generated in a building of interest is disclosed in which waste to be discarded is loaded into a through-the-wall system from ... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5131241 | Method for freezing food products in containers, and an automatic plate freezer for implementing the method A method and an automatic plate freezer for freezing food products in boxes or trays, or in containers of low mechanical strength and therefore being deformable, or of nonparallelepiped shape. Such boxes or containers are frozen in a plate freezer within which... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5103651 | Plasma storage freezer and thermal transport device A thermal transport device having a hollow within which a plasma storage freezer is deployed. The freezer acts as a cold "battery" by having a eutectic fluid contained therewithin. The freezer is placed in a commercial, powered refrigeration unit for chil... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5092233 | Trash collection and storage system An unique automated and comprehensive through-the-wall trash handling and storage system and process which are disclosed in material to be discarded is loaded into a through-the-wall system from within and picked up by a hauler from outside an associated ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5069044 | Ice block press An ice block press device (10). The press (10) includes a compression chamber (12) into which raw ice particles (20) are fed through an opening (82). A ram (16) is employed to urge ice particles (20) deposited through an input chute (18), through the open... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5040383 | Freezing plant A freezing plant consists of a row of plate freezers (1, 2, 3, and 4), a feeding conveyor (5) and a removing conveyor (6). Each of the plate freezers (1, 2, 3, and 4) has a stack of freezing plates and means for stepwise lifting the stack in such a way th... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5035120 | Freezer A freezer comprises an insulated housing with two opposite walls defining an interior chamber therebetween, the walls respectively defining a charging opening and a discharge opening for respectively charging products to be frozen into the interior chambe... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4907421 | Automatic platefreezer, with horizontal freezing plates, suitable to apply pressure on the product during normal freezing operations Automatic freezer with horizontal refrigerating plates that continuously apply pressure on a product being frozen, in which a series of plates held between a bottom and a top frame linked through rods: with lifting and lowering the above plates in order t... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4881377 | Apparatus for dividing parallelipipedic blocks of deep frozen foodstuffs into smaller units The invention relates to an apparatus for dividing parallelipipedic blocks 1 of deep frozen foodstuffs and feedstuffs into smaller parallelipipedic units (slabs). Disposed below a conveying path 8 for the blocks 13 to be divided is another conveying path ... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4780119 | Method and apparatus for producing carbon dioxide units Carbon dioxide (CO2) solid discs (dry ice) are produced from liquid carbon dioxide injected into an extrusion cylinder in which the extrusion piston compresses dry snow and extrudes it through a fixed die, thereby producing pellets of dry ice w... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4770684 | Apparatus for production of compression-solidified snow An apparatus for production of compression-solidified snow comprises a pressure chamber with a rust preventive inner face, a pressure head for applying pressure to snow, a boost-typed pressure cylinder installed at one end of the pressure chamber and equi... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4767307 | Apparatus for the production of spherical portions of ice-cream Apparatus for the production of spherical portions of ice-cream. The apparatus includes means for introducing an ice-cream mixture having a creamy consistency into a hemispherical lower mould in a sufficient quantity to fill the mould and form a protrudin... | 08/30/1988 |
