Blast Chiller For Rapidly Cooling and/or Rapidly Freezing Food, With Improved Probe For Detecting the Temperature Thereof

Abstract

Blast chiller for rapidly cooling and/or rapidly freezing food, which is equipped with a door for closing the opening of an insulated chamber and a probe for detecting the temperature of the food being processed inside the chamber. At least two magnets are envisaged, one being associated with the probe and the other with the inner wall of the door so as to allow the probe to be removably attached to the abovementioned wall of the door.

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       9 . Blast chiller for rapidly cooling and/or rapidly freezing food, which comprises:
 a supporting structure having internally an insulated chamber provided with an access opening which can be removably closed by means of a door having an outer wall and an inner wall;   a probe for detecting the temperature of food;   securing means provided on the inner wall of the door and able to support removably the probe when it is not inserted in a food product;   wherein the securing means comprise at least one first and one second connecting element capable of magnetically attracting each other, one being associated with the probe and the other one with the inner wall of the door so as to allow the probe to be removably attached to the aforementioned wall of the door.   
   
   
       10 . Blast chiller according to  claim 9 , wherein at least one of the first and second securing elements consists of a magnet. 
   
   
       11 . Blast chiller according to  claim 9 , wherein the securing means comprise a shaped seat formed on the inner wall of the door. 
   
   
       12 . Blast chiller according to  claim 11 , wherein the shaped seat is obtained by means of a depression formed in the inner wall of the door. 
   
   
       13 . Blast chiller according to  claim 12 , wherein the depression has at least one portion substantially shaped so as to match a corresponding portion of the probe. 
   
   
       14 . Blast chiller according to  claim 9 , wherein the first securing element consists of a first magnet embedded within the handle of the probe. 
   
   
       15 . Blast chiller according to  claim 9 , wherein the first securing element consists of a second magnet fixed to the door behind the inner wall. 
   
   
       16 . Blast chiller according to  claim 9 , wherein the probe is connected to a control unit by means of a cable which passes through a hole formed in the inner wall of the door and a pin for supporting and rotating the door with respect to the supporting structure.