A - Human Necessities – 23 – F
Patent
A - Human Necessities
23
F
99/207, 99/76
A23F 5/12 (2006.01) A23F 5/34 (2006.01) A23F 5/38 (2006.01) A23P 1/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2025283
ABSTRACT AGGLOMERATION PROCESS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR The invention relates to a process and apparatus to agglomerate soluble coffee particles. The process comprises feeding a curtain of soluble coffee particles to an agglomerator. The curtain fails between a pair of steam distributors which spray steam which intersects the particles causing wetting and fusion of coffee particles to form agglomerates. The moist agglomerates pass through a tempering zone where they are partially surface dried by a draft of laminar air of a temperature less than 200°F which moves downward with the agglomerates. The agglomerates are collected on a moving continuous belt, transferred to a drier and are subsequently dried to a moisture content of 5% or less. A process is also disclosed for darkening a light-colored, granular soluble coffee product. LPATCASE:101
Arora Vijay K.
Powhida Christopher
Vitti Rudolf A.
Arora Vijay K.
General Foods Corporation
Kraft General Foods Inc.
Mcfadden Fincham
Powhida Christopher
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