Robert S Cathey

US Patent:

7281384, Oct 16, 2007

Filed:

Sep 1, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/217159

Inventors:

Terry A. Wright - Cary NC, US
John P. Shell - Raleigh NC, US
Robert E. Cathey - Hendersonville NC, US

Assignee:

Morris & Associates, Inc. - Garner NC

International Classification:

F25D 17/02

US Classification:

62 64, 62375, 165 92, 452197

Abstract:

Birds are moved through chilled water by bird moving means such as an auger or by a series of paddles. The birds tend to accumulate in a predetermined path in the water. Streams of water that include an antibacterial additive are directed toward the predetermined path and engage and disperse the birds, and wash the birds with the streams of water and the antibacterial additive, thereby increasing the rate of heat transfer from the birds and increasing the effectiveness of the antibacterial properties of the agents in the chilled water.

US Patent:

7470173, Dec 30, 2008

Filed:

Jun 13, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/762142

Inventors:

Terry A. Wright - Cary NC, US
Robert E. Cathey - Apex NC, US

Assignee:

Morris & Associates, Inc. - Garner NC

International Classification:

A22C 21/00

US Classification:

452173

Abstract:

The post chill decontamination tank assembly usually is positioned at the exit end of a chiller of a poultry processing line. Eviscerated birds fall into the decontamination tank and the paddles A-D of the paddle assembly revolve in the tank about the axis and collect and lift the birds through the liquid and discharge the birds from the tank. An antimicrobial is added to the liquid for treating the exposed surfaces of the birds.

US Patent:

7588489, Sep 15, 2009

Filed:

Jun 16, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/139941

Inventors:

Terry A. Wright - Cary NC, US
Robert E. Cathey - Apex NC, US

Assignee:

Morris & Associates, Inc. - Garner NC

International Classification:

A22B 7/00

US Classification:

452173

Abstract:

The post chill decontamination tank assembly usually is positioned at the exit end of a chiller of a poultry processing line. Eviscerated birds fall into the decontamination tank and the paddles A-D of the paddle assembly revolve in the tank about the axis and collect and lift the birds through the liquid and discharge the birds from the tank. An antimicrobial is added to the liquid for treating the exposed surfaces of the birds.

US Patent:

20060225438, Oct 12, 2006

Filed:

Apr 7, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/100802

Inventors:

William Morris - Raleigh NC, US
Terry Wright - Cary NC, US
John Shell - Raleigh NC, US
Robert Cathey - Hendersonville NC, US

International Classification:

A01K 61/02
F25D 17/02
F25D 25/00

US Classification:

062064000, 062375000, 062378000

Abstract:

The chiller includes a semi-cylindrical tank () that conforms to the perimeter of its auger () SO that the water can be raised to a water level () high above the auger shaft (). Streams of water () are directed from the pulling side () across the lower portion of the tank beneath the auger shaft () to the dead side of the tank at intervals along the tank so as to disperse the lower portion of the masses () of buoyant birds () from the more crowded pulling side () of the tank, beneath the auger shaft () toward the more vacant dead side () of the tank, thereby distributing the products more evenly throughout the tank and causing more water turbulence in the tank, thereby increasing the rate of heat transfer from the birds and avoiding having the birds cross over the auger shaft moving backward in chiller into a following flight of the auger.

US Patent:

20070169502, Jul 26, 2007

Filed:

Jan 19, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/655551

Inventors:

William F. Morris - Raleigh NC, US
Robert E. Cathey - Apex NC, US
Terry A. Wright - Cary NC, US

International Classification:

F25D 17/02

US Classification:

62374, 62375

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method of reducing the temperature and increasing the moisture content of carcasses includes progressively introducing the carcasses into a body of heat-exchanging fluid in a tank having a curved bottom surface, oscillating a paddle in the tank along the curved bottom surface to upwardly and laterally urge the carcasses through the body of fluid, and axially propelling jets of heat-exchanging fluid through the body of fluid to axially urge the carcasses along the length of the tank toward an outlet end of the tank.

US Patent:

20090241583, Oct 1, 2009

Filed:

Mar 28, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/057657

Inventors:

Robert E. Cathey - Apex NC, US
Chris A. Baucom - Cary NC, US
Thang Phan - Youngsville NC, US

International Classification:

F25D 25/04
F25D 25/00

US Classification:

62375, 62381

Abstract:

An auger chiller () includes a carcass delivery end () that is sloped upwardly with a reduced radius. The auger () includes a progressively reduced radius auger segment () that matches the configuration of the angled section of the chiller tank, with the pitch of the auger blade being greater in this section of the tank for advancing the birds more reliably in a first-in first-out delivery to a sloped bird unloader (). An arcuate basin () is formed at the lower arc of the peripheral rim wall () of the bird unloader, assuring that the heavier birds tend to sink into the basin, tending not to return to the chiller tank.