FLAT PLATE SCADA DEVICE Field of the Invention The present invention relates to the manufacture of flakes, flakes or flakes of frozen fats or more technically triglycerides, including edible fats, lard and various commercial food products such as edible oils and emulsifiers. In addition, the present invention relates to the field of layering or encapsulation of solid or flake material within other materials.
This placement in layers or encapsulation of solids can take the form of: (1) solids in mixture in a liquid oil that hardens and flakes; (2) solid aggregates directly to a liquid that is in the process of hardening and flaking; and (3) encapsulate solids with liquids and liquid / gas mixtures of both edible and inedible material. The present invention is particularly suitable for scaling emulsifiers. Emulsifiers or emulsifying agents include mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, propylene glycol, mono- and diesters of fatty acids, glycerol lactose esters of fatty acids, mono- and diglycerides ethoxylated or succinylated, lecithin, diacetyl tartaric acid esters or mono - and diglycerides, sucrose esters of glycerol phospho lipids or their equivalents and their mixtures. A variety of edible oils are contemplated for use with the present invention, in particular oil seed oil, which include cottonseed oils, soybean oil, corn oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, seed oils of castor oil, saffron oil, palm and olive oil, and the like. The term "fat" is generally used to refer to edible fats and oils comprising triglycerides, fatty acids, fatty alcohols and ester of these acids and alcohols. For the purposes of this invention, suitable components are straight chain or branched chain triglycerides, saturated or unsaturated monocarboxylic acids having from 10 to 28 carbon atoms. Suitable sources of these fats are (1) vegetable fats and oils as indicated above; (2) meat fats, such as bait or lard; (3) marine oils such as shad (menhaden), Pilchard sardine, sardine, whale or herring; (4) nuts fats and oils such as coconut palm or peanuts; (5) milk fats such as butter fat; (6) cocoa butter and substitutes of cocoa butter, such as vegetable or Shea butter or illipe; and (7) synthetic fats or a fat-esterified with fractionated fatty acids. The present invention also contemplates adding various additives in the mixtures to be scaled. It will be appreciated that the use of additives in liquid compositions will reduce the melting point of the liquid composition. These additives can be flavorings such as butter milk, cinnamon, or colors such as beta carotene, or annoretta or saffron. Solid solids or powders may be included such as non-fat dry milk solids, or the pulp of various fruits such as raspberry and cranberry, together with other flavorings or natural or imitation dyes. The present invention overcomes melting point depression that occurs when additives are included in a liquid. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION It has long been known that fatty substances can be cooled to a solid or semi-solid and applied a hot or warm liquid or semi-liquid from the fat to a rotating drum or a continuous cooling band. In the patent of the U.S.A. No. 788,446 issued to A. R. Wilson, a liquid fat was milled on a rotating drum or cylinder which is cooled with ice or ice and salt. As the drum rotates, the previously applied liquid is scraped off the drum, and the scraped area of the drum is subsequently presented for another application of the grease or liquid to be frozen. These types of drum cooling or mechanical cooling are relatively successful for substances that have a sufficiently high melting point. NeverthelessAs the melting point decreases, the residence time of the substance in the drum must be increased in order to cool the liquid to a sufficient hardness that when scraping the substance from the drum, the material will come off cleanly from the drum and be sufficiently solid. such that it does not melt together with other materials scraped from the drum. In addition, as the melting point of the liquid applied to the drum becomes smaller, the opportunity for the material to melt together as a whole increases again, or the agglomeration increases due to the continuous release of heat from the interior of the previously liquid substance. , as it becomes increasingly solid after being scraped off the roller and packed. In particular, as a substance cools to change the liquid material to a solid, the heat within the liquid substance is removed, and the material is reduced in temperature to a point at which the crystallization of the material begins and a solid of the material begins to form inside the liquid. The solid formation increases as heat is removed from the liquid substance. After a while, sufficient heat will have been removed from the substance, such that the once liquid material becomes generally solid. However, if a material has become generally solid, it may not fully crystallize and stabilize at a useful temperature. Rather, the material will continue to undergo further solidification as an increased percentage of the material becomes a solid crystal. During this period of continuous crystallization, the heat continues to be released by the material as it passes from a semi-solid to a solid or stabilizes at a particular temperature below the melting point of the original liquid substance. This represents the release of the "heat of crystallization" or release of the "latent heat of crystallization" of the substance. In the process of forming flakes, flakes or scales of triglycerides, emulsifiers or other edible or inedible materials, the general process is to apply the liquid substance to a rotating drum, cooled and allow the material to remain in contact with the drum for a sufficient time to allow the liquid to become sufficiently solid, so that it can be scraped off the drum. During the scraping process, it is preferred that the solid or semi-solid be broken into flakes or fragments instead of being detached from the drum as a continuous sheet. Once the flakes or fragments of the substance are removed from the drum, they are usually packaged in a container and placed in the cooling room for additional cooling and to retain the material in a solid state. It is during this period in the cooling room that the further solidification of this substance continues. As a result of this additional solidification, the internal heat is released by the material referred to as the "latent heat of crystallization". Once a crystal growth, or solidification, has begun in a substance, it is necessary that additional solidification occurs, that the heat is removed and transferred from the body that undergoes crystallization or solidification. In the case of a partially solidified liquid that has been placed in a packing box, the latent heat of acceleration is trapped within the mass of material in the box and generally begins to raise the temperature of the substance. This can result in agglomeration of the material within the package because the latent solidification heat partially melts the solid that formed in the rotating cold drum. A graphical representation of this phenomenon can be seen in Figure 6. In Figure 6, the flashing line indicates material that has a melting point of about 46 ° C (114 ° F), which is initially cooled for 10 to 30 seconds in a roller. The graph shows that during the mechanical cooling period (TI), the temperature generally decreases from 2.78 ° C (5 ° F) above the melting point temperature of the fat to flake or flake at approximately 10 to 15.6 ° C (50-60 ° F). At time T2, packing occurs as the material comes off the roller. At time T2, the time interval changes to days. Once the material is removed from the roller, the temperature of the material begins to rise. This increase in temperature continues during the first portion of time T2 and after the packed material is placed in a cooling room at 4.44 ° C (40 ° F). It is shown in Figure 6 that the temperature of the material once packaged and that resides in a cooling room, continues to rise. This increase in temperature is due to the latent heat of crystallization which causes the temperature of the packaged material to increase to approximately 37.8 ° C (100 ° F). The temperature of the material then decreases to the temperature of the cooling room for a period of 2 to 3 additional days. This increase in temperature in the packed material that results from the latent heat of crystallization, can cause agglomeration of packed material. This increase in latent heat is a particular problem in materials that have a Solids Content index that is below the line drawn in Figure 10. Figure 10 shows the solids content of a mixture of fats at various temperatures. The solids content index is a manufacturing standard, used to measure the extent of hydrogenation in the fat components used in a mixture. Over a limited range, the solids content index (SCI = solids content index) value is numerically equal to approximately the percent of current solids in the mixture. At high temperatures, the fat product will completely melt. At low temperatures, the grease can be completely solid. Between these low and high temperature ranges, there are varying degrees of fat solids content in the fat composition. By selecting varying degrees of hydrogenated triglycerides, a variety of SCI profiles for various fat compositions can be developed. With respect to the fat mixture suitable for flaking or flaking, the line of Figure 10 represents an agglomeration boundary. For mixtures of hydrogenated triglycerides having solid compositions that fall below the agglomeration boundary, conventional drum and striping methods, do not provide sufficient cooling time or sufficient temperature reduction in the mixture to: (1) produce sufficient nucleation in the grease mixture to allow flaking, - (2) prevent the solidified grease from forming a sheet of material, instead of flaking, - and (3) reduce the temperature of the solidified material, enough to avoid remelting the material due to the latent heat of crystallization once the material is removed from the band or roller and packed. The present invention avoids all these problems of roller and strip flaking devices and allows the flaking of emulsifier and / or grease mixtures having a solids content lower than the agglomeration boundary shown in Figure 10. Still another disadvantage of the use drum cooling for materials of the type previously described is that when the melting point of the material becomes sufficiently low, generally 41 ° C (105 ° F) or lower, the latent heat of crystallization will tend to be sufficient to remelter eventually the material or cause the flakes of the material to become a connected mass inside the packaging material. Therefore, the use of rotating drum device to cool materials having low melting point becomes ineffective, and triglycerides and other oils having low melting points can not be mixed with other substances which would have the effect of reducing the point of the triglyceride or the fatty substance, to a point at which the drum cooling method would be ineffective as a result of the latent heat of crystallization causing the newly solidified material to form a dough, once it is packed. Another problem is commonly encountered with emulsifiers that do not contain a sufficient amount of hard nucleating fat to initiate crystallization. In this case, the emulsifier does not form a flake, flake or flake when it is cooled, but forms a continuous sheet of material that is detached from the band or drum cooling device. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that increasing the holding time in the cooled rotating drum is an insufficient solution to this problem. Depending on the material that is applied to the drum, it is cooled very thoroughly while it is in the drum, will crack separating from the drum and will come off the drum before it reaches the scraping blade or reaches a point where it is desired the collection of material. In certain types of drum cooling systems, the liquid is fixed by the drum bottom that rotates through a vat or collection of hot liquid. The liquid then adheres to the drum and cools during the rotation of the drum, and the material is scraped from the drum before a second immersion in the vat of the liquid. In this situation, braking the drum can result in substantial heat loss in the warm or warm oil or triglyceride vat and can result in heating of the material in the vat and cooling of the drum operating for cross-breeding purposes. Therefore, it would be beneficial for the food industry in general that an apparatus and method were available to solidify edible oils and low melting point triglycerides, emulsifiers and mixtures thereof and the like, which avoid the disadvantages of the cold drum method. to form these solids. In addition, it would be a great benefit to the food industry that the method and apparatus allowed them to be layered, multiple substances on top of each other to form a sandwich solid of several different materials that can again form flakes or flakes and incorporate into foods . The aforementioned weaknesses are overcome by the present invention and the advantages and convenient solutions of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the reading specialty of the following specification, in conjunction with the drawings thus provided of a preferred embodiment of the invention. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention uses a generally horizontal surface of a cold plate to allow longer contact times of a liquid with a cold plate in order to convert the liquid to its solid form and effect a greater degree of liquid solidification than the possible using the method with cooled rotating drum for solidification of liquids. The present invention also allows an increased removal of latent heat of crystallization of the solidifying substance, to reduce the increase in temperature inside the material once it is packed, resulting from the latent heat of crystallization in materials that initially solidify using apparatus and methodology of moving band or cooled rotating drum. In particular, the present invention uses a horizontal cooling plate to receive applications of a liquid material for conversion of the liquid form to the solid form and to provide a material with sufficient contact time of the cold plate to greatly reduce the remaining latent heat. of crystallization after solidification of the material. The material is then scraped off the working surface of the cooling plate. The present invention achieves this method to solidify liquids by moving an applicator or spray nozzle through the surface of the cooling plate to supply the liquid material on the cooling plate. The method then scrapes the cooling plate to remove the solidified material from the working surface of the cooling plate, by moving the scraper through the surface of the cooling plate. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the apparatus utilizes a driven rod with motor-driven spindle to move a carriage containing spray nozzles and scrapers across the surface of the cooling plate to perform the previously described portions. However, it will be appreciated that any way to move the spout and scraper through the cooling plate would be an equivalent device. In this apparatus and method, the objects of the present invention can be achieved consisting of cooling a liquid from a liquid to a solid form, while substantially all of the latent heat of crystallization of the formed solid is removed, to allow flaking of mixtures having a high percentage of low melting point components. Another objective of the present invention is to allow an increased retention time of a liquid in a cooling surface, to allow removal of almost all the latent heat of crystallization and to reduce the temperature of the resulting solid to a temperature that will allow the solid to scale easily. and avoid formations of sheets of material. Another object of the present invention is to provide simultaneous application of multiple liquids or multiple solids or mixtures of liquid solids and / or gases such as nitrogen or air on an air plate, so that multiple solids can be produced in layers and solid solutions. . Still another object of the present invention is to allow sequential applications of liquids and solids to a cold plate to provide multilayer solids which can then be removed from the plate in its solid form. The above and other objects are intended as illustrative of the invention and are not intended in a limiting sense. Many possible embodiments of the invention can be realized and will be readily apparent upon a study of the following specification and accompanying drawings comprising a portion thereof. Various features and sub-combinations of the invention can be employed without reference to other features and sub-combinations. Other objects and advantages of this invention will be apparent from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein an embodiment of this invention is set forth by way of illustration and example. DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Preferred embodiments of the invention, illustrative of the best ways in which the applicant has contemplated applying the principles, are set forth in the following description and are illustrated in the drawings and are indicated in a particular and distinctive manner and set forth in the claims annexes. Figure 1 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view taken on line 1-1 of Figure 7 of a preferred embodiment of the invention, showing a scraper and a jet positioned to traverse through the working surface of the license plate; Figure 2 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of another preferred embodiment of the invention showing a scraper and first and second jets positioned for travel through the working surface of the plate; Figure 3 is a fragmentary plan view of the cooling plate of the embodiments of Figures 1 and 2 and showing the exterior cooling lines and illustrating, in dotted lines, the recesses in the cooling plate to allow circulation of refrigerant inside. of the plate; Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Figure 1 and showing the mounting of the scraper on a carriage for movement through the bottom surface of the plate and showing the scraper in contact with the surface of the cooling plate; Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 5-5 of Figure 1, and showing the dispenser assembly on a carrier for jet movement through the plate working surface, to supply a substance on the work surface; Figure 6 is a graph of temperature versus time, for a liquid that undergoes initial mechanical cooling of the present invention and a rotating drum followed by a period of residence time in a cooling room and showing the increase in temperature of the packed solid that is formed in a rotating drum during the residence period; Figure 7 is a left and upper side perspective view of the embodiment of Figure 1 showing a spout on a carriage for movement of the spout through the plate work surface and showing the switches for activating and terminating various actions of the device, Figure 8 is a cross-sectional view of an embodiment of the present invention wherein two cold plates, jets and scrapers are mounted side-by-side and operate by a single threaded actuator or driver; and Figure 9 is a longitudinal sectional view of another preferred embodiment of the invention, showing a double scraper and double jet arranged in a single carriage for travel through the plate working surface; Figure 10 is a graph of temperature with respect to the Fat Content Index of a triglyceride mixture and showing the various solids and liquid contents of the mixture at different temperatures and illustrating the agglomeration boundary for these mixtures. DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED MODE With reference now to Figure 1, a longitudinal sectional view of the plate flaker 10 is illustrated. The plate flaker 10 is constituted by a cooling plate 12 which is supported by a frame or base (not shown). The cooling plate
12 is cooled to a selected temperature, by circulating refrigerant through holes 42 of the cooling plate 12. Mounted on the work surface
13 of the cooling plate 12, is the carriage 28 which is mounted on the threaded actuator 18, to allow movement in both directions or reciprocating of the carriage 28 through the working surface 13 of the cooling plate 12. The threaded actuator 18 is generally mounted on the cooling plate 12 by bearings 24a, 24b which are mounted on the front plate 14 and the end plate 16. The threaded actuator 18 extends through the bearing 24a for connection to the band 22 which is connected to the motor of the threaded actuator 20. The motor of the threaded actuator 20 is a reversible motor that allows the threaded actuator 18 to be rotated selectively in the corresponding direction clockwise or counterclockwise so as to of imparting reversible movement to the carriage 28 to allow the carriage 28 to move in both directions through the cooling plate 12. Still with reference to FIG. preferred carrier, the carriage 28 has the spray nozzle 32 and the flow valve 30 connected to the carriage 28 to achieve the spray distribution of a liquid material 47 on the cooling plate 12. The spray of material on the cooling plate 12 it is achieved during movement, or reciprocation, of the carriage 28 in the threaded actuator 18 over the distance of the working surface 13 of the cooling plate 12. Also connected to the carriage 28 is the scraper 34. The scraper 34 is movable between a position high that is out of contact with the work surface '13 and a lowered position which is in contact with the work surface 13. The scraper 34 is raised and lowered by pneumatic cylinders 36, which are provided with the cylinder guide rods 38. to stabilize movement of the scraper 34. In a preferred embodiment (Figure 4), the cylinders 36 are pneumatically activated by gas pressure from line 37 'causing travel descending scraper 34. The upward movement of scraper 34 is operated by gas pressure on line 37 (Figure 4) to activate cylinder 36. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that carriage 28 can carry more than one nozzle of dew 32 and the flow valve 30. For example, multiple spray nozzles 32 each equipped with a flow valve 30, transmit the spraying of multiple components onto the working surface 13 of the cooling plate 12. As a As an example and not limitation, it will be appreciated that a first spray nozzle 32 can supply a first liquid on the work surface 13, while simultaneously, a second spray nozzle 32 supplies a second liquid on the work surface 13, and while a third spray nozzle 32 or additional spray nozzles 32, provide additional liquids on the work surface 13. In this way, a number of different Liquids can be supplied simultaneously on the working surface 13 of the cooling plate 12. Alternatively, the multiple spray nozzles 32 mentioned above can be operated in a sequential manner by alternating the spray nozzles during multiple phases of the carriage 28 on the threaded actuator 18 through the work surface 13. By way of further example and not limitation, it may be useful to equip the carriage 28 with multiple spray nozzles 32, each of which supplies a separate liquid or solid material on the surface working 13. For example, during a first reciprocation or passage through the work surface 13, a first spray nozzle 32 can supply a base liquid on the recess surface 13 to solidify the liquid in a solid. In a second step, a second spray nozzle 32 can spray a powder spray on the first layer, and in a third step, a third spray nozzle 32 can supply a second layer of liquid or solid or solid powder aerosol by a solids applicator on the work surface 13 to build a multi-layer product on the work surface 13 of the cooling plate 12. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that by the use of separate spray nozzles to supply different amounts of material on the work surface 13, differential layer thicknesses may be provided on the surface of the work 13 to accumulate. Alternatively, it will be appreciated that the pump speed can be varied by braking or increasing the pump speed to affect the flow of material on the work surface 13 or to slow the carriage travel, while maintaining constant material thickness in the work surface 13. Further, this variation in layer thickness can be achieved by increasing or slowing down the speed at which the threaded actuator 18 will go. The addition of solid material on the work surface 13 can be achieved through the use of a Solids applicator that is well known in the industry. The solids applicator consists of a hopper that has a downward flow tube and a rotary switch bar at the bottom of the hopper. As the hopper moves through the work surface 13, either by connection to a carriage 28 or another device for moving the hopper, the solid material that has been loaded into the hopper is distributed through the work surface 13. to mix with other materials that have been loaded on the work surface 13. Now with reference to Figure 2, an alternative method of providing multiple applications of materials on a work surface 13 of the cooling plate 12, will be discussed. In Figure 2, it illustrates an embodiment of the invention wherein a second applicator 46 is provided. The second applicator 46 allows a second layer of material to be dispersed on the work surface 13 in a sequential manner when using applicators on multiple carriages. In operation, the embodiment of Figure 2 can apply a second layer to the applicator 46 while remaining close behind the first applicator 45. In Figure 2, a second applicator 46 has already completed placing the second applicator layer 47 on the work surface 13 and a first applicator 45 applies a second layer. By placing the layer 47 on the work surface 13, the second applicator 46 has traveled from near the first applicator 45 towards the faceplate 14, or in the direction of the arrow B. When placing a second layer on the work surface 13 , and on the second applicator layer 47, the first applicator 45 travels towards the second applicator 46 while spraying a liquid or powder from the nozzle 32a or from a solids applicator onto the layer 47. Once the first applicator 45 has completed its application of material on the work surface 13 on the second applicator layer 47, the scraper 34 of the first applicator 45 can be lowered onto the work surface 13. The first applicator 45 then moves in the direction of arrow A to scrape the now solid material of the work surface 13 and towards the end plate 16, where the solid material 47 will fall through the opening 17 and onto the conveyor 39. Now with reference to the Figur to 3, the assembly used to cool the plate 12 and the work surface 13 is illustrated. Figure 3 is a plan view of fragmentation of the cooling plate 12. The cooling plate 12 is provided with recesses 42 that are drilled or drilled completely through the cooling plate 12. The recesses 42 allow a recess to be introduced. refrigerant in the cooling plate 12 by the refrigerant inlet pipe 40. The refrigerant is chosen to establish the cooling plate 12 at a temperature sufficient to change the material formed in layers on the work surface 13 from a liquid to a flaking solid. The refrigerant circulates through a section of the cooling plate 12 and leaves the cooling plate 12 through the refrigerant return line 44. The refrigerant is then circulated through a compressor or cooling system to again reduce the temperature of the outlet refrigerant at the appropriate temperature for reuse to cool the cooling plate 12. Referring now to Figure 4, the cross-sectional view of the embodiment shown in Figure 1, presents the scraper bar 34 in its downward position, such that it is in contact with the work surface 13 of the cold plate 12. The scraper 34 is raised and it is lowered by pneumatic cylinders 35 and stabilized during its movement by guide rods of the cylinder 38. In operation, once a material has been placed on the work surface 13 and solidified, the scraper 34 is lowered onto the work surface 13 and the carriage is advanced in order to scrape off the material from the work surface 13 and to push the material into the opening or recess 17 (Figure 1) and onto the conveyor 39. Now with reference to Figure 5, the carriage assembly 28 will be discussed in more detail. Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view of the embodiment of Figure 1, and shows the working surface 13 of the cooling plate 12 to be below the spray nozzle or spout 32. The spout 32 receives a supply of liquid fluid by connection with the feed tube 58 which is connected to a supply (not shown) of material to be layered on the work surface 13. The feed tube 58 travels to the dispenser 32 from a supply and ends at the flow valve 30. The flow valve 30 in a preferred embodiment is pneumatically operated and provides positive flow and flow interruption to the spray nozzle 32. Adjacent to the flow valve 30 is the block displaced by carriage 26 containing a threaded nut mounted to a flange that is adapted to receive the threads of the acme threaded actuator rod 18, which passes through the carriage drive block 29. The carriage drive block 29 it allows the carriage 28 to travel on the threaded actuator rod 18, as the rod of the threaded actuator 18 is rotated, either in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction by the motor 20 and the band or strap 22 (Figure 1). The carriage 18 is guided in its movement over the distance of the cooling plate 12 by traveling bearings 50 which are connected to the carriage 28. The steel bearings 50 are connected to the traveling rod 52 which is fastened to the support plate 54. This particular assembly imparts stability and resistance to the preferred embodiment and allows the carriage 28 to operate continuously for long periods of time and reduce the number of moving parts that can result in failure during long hours of operation. On the support plate 54 is the separator plate 56 that can be used to mount a second carriage 28b (Figure 2) to allow use of additional jets or spray nozzles 32. Now with reference to Figure 6, a graphic analysis of the beneficial results obtained from the present invention. In Figure 6, the temperature with respect to time for a single substance that has been mechanically cooled by both a rotating drum or conventional roller method and the cooled flat plate of the present invention is illustrated. Using the rotating drum or the roller, it can be seen by examining the uninterrupted line, that the liquid is placed in the drum at TI time at a temperature of approximately 49 ° C (120 ° F). During the exposure time of approximately 10 to 20 seconds to the drum or cooled roller, the temperature of the substance is reduced to approximately 15.6-18.3 ° C (60-65 ° F), which is the temperature at which the material hardens. enough to allow the material to be scraped from the drum and fragmented into flakes, flakes or flakes at time T2. At time T2, the packing of material occurs just after removal of the material from the band, drum or roller.
In the case of the rotating drum method, the material is placed in a package and the package is placed in a cooling room of approximately 4.44 ° C (40 ° F) for approximately 2 minutes of packing. At time T2, the time period in Figure 5 changes from seconds to days. The material that has been flaked in the rotating drum method starts to increase the temperature soon after drum removal. This temperature deviation continues for approximately the first 3 days, the material is stored in the cooling room. This heat development within the package is a result of the latent heat of crystallization that is released as the material continues to harden within the package in the cooling room. Approximately the third day in the cooling room, the temperature of the packing material begins to approach the temperature of the cooling room. The temperature increase observed from the first to three days in the cooling room due to the latent heat of crystallization, is a substantial problem that results from solidification or complete initial crystallization of the material using the rotating drum method. Since the material only solidifies or partially crystallizes in the rotating drum during the mechanical cooling period, further solidification of material continues during the cooling room and the latent heat of crystallization is released. This latent heat of crystallization as described above tends to result in an increase in the temperature of the packaged material. This increase in temperature can sometimes be enough to bring the material back close to its melting point which results in melting of the material within the package. This fusion problem is complicated by the palletizing of the packages for shipment. The grouping of the packages reduces the heat removal of the packages and the internal packages on the pallet reach even a higher temperature than the outer packages. This is a highly undesirable state and reduces the value of the material produced and also causes the manufacturers of the material to institute a long retention period inside a cooling room before shipping the material. This long retention period increases inventories and stocks of packaged material that must be maintained in a cooling room per day, if not week, before shipment of material. The present invention allows the reduction or elimination of the temperature increase by latent heat of crystallization in the packaged material and substantially shortens the amount of inventory that a producer requires to keep available before shipment and also reduces the amount of retention time of the material before boarding Both of these factors result in substantial savings in production costs for the manufacturer. Now with reference to the solid line shown in Figure 6, the results of the method of the invention in the same liquid that was applied to the rotating drum will be discussed. The liquid is applied to the flake plate of the invention of the present invention at approximately 49 ° C (120 ° F). During approximately the first 10 to 30 (ten to thirty) seconds of time in contact with the plate, the liquid lowers from about 49 ° C (120 ° F) to about -3.89 ° C (25 ° F), and converts to its solid state. The material is then scraped off from the work surface 13 (Figure 1) before time T2, after which it is immediately packed. Subsequent to time T2, the material formed in the cold plate of the present invention is subjected to only a slight increase in temperature due to the latent heat of crystallization and the temperature of the production room. In fact, in the example shown in Figure 6, the temperature of the material increases to the temperature of the cooling room and stabilizes at the temperature of the cooling room of approximately 4.44 ° C (40 ° F). As illustrated in the graph of Figure 6, the material produced using the method and apparatus of the invention exhibits little or no increase in temperature within the package due to the latent heat of crystallization. Figure 7 is a perspective view of the embodiment of Figure 1. Figure 7 illustrates several switches that turn off and on during carriage 28 travel on the working surface of the invention. A cycle of operation of the invention will now be described, starting when the carriage 28 is placed in the limit switch 63. In this position, the switch 63 has been pushed in the direction of the plate 14 by the movement of the carriage 28 towards the plate 1 This movement of switch 63 stops a movement of the carriage 28 towards the plate 14 and inverts the operation direction of the motor 20 and lowers the scraper 34 (Figure 1) to contact the work surface 13 and initiates a synchronizer for a time interval. At the end of the synchronization interval, the synchronizer activates the motor 20 to send the carriage 28 towards the plate 16. During this movement towards the plate 16, the carriage 28 activates the limit switch 62 to cause the opening of the valve 30 to activate the flow of liquid from the spout 32. The carriage 28 continues to the plate 16 and activates the limit switch 35 to close the valve 30 and shut off or interrupt the flow of liquid from the spout 32. The carriage 28 continues until it contacts the limit switch 60 which stops the carriage, raises scraper 34 and activates a synchronizer. At the end of the synchronization interval, the motor 20 is activated in the reverse direction. In the reverse direction, the limit switch 62 is readjusted to its initial position so that it can again activate the liquid flow in the return travel of the carriage 28 to the plate 16. Adjacent to the plate 14 and the plate 16, there are limit switches 61 and 64, which, if tripped, interrupt the energy to the invention for emergency stop of the travel of the carriage 28. In this way, an operation cycle of the invention is achieved. That is, a liquid material has been placed on the work surface 13 and solidified while it is on the work surface 13, which is then followed by a step on the work surface 13 and the cold plate 12 by the trolley 28 with the scraper in the downward position, to remove the material from the work surface 13 whereby the material is pushed through the gap 17 (Figure 1) and on the conveyor 39 (Figure 1). It will be appreciated that the previous description of the operation of Figure 7 has only described the very basic mode of operation of the present invention. It will be appreciated from the above discussion that multiple steps of the carriage 28 can be performed on the work surface 13 in order to distribute multiple layers of materials or multiple liquid and solid phases of material on the work surface 13. Now with reference now to Figure 8, yet another embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in which two iterations of the invention are placed side by side, whereby they are operated with a simple threaded driver 18 which is connected to the carriage 28a and the carriage 28b. In the embodiment of Figure 8, a single cooling system is used that introduces refrigerant into the pipe 40 which then travels through the cold plate 12a and onto the cold plate 12b of the second iteration of the invention to exit the pipeline 44. It will be appreciated that many of these iterations of the invention may be connected in a series to operate simultaneously in order to increase the amount of material generated during any portion of time.
Now with reference to Figure 9, another embodiment of the invention illustrates having dual scrapers 34a, 34b and dual spouts 32a, 32b illustrating a conveyor 28 and dual conveyors 39a, 39b at either end. This embodiment allows the layer 47 of a mixture to be stocked on the work surface 13 while the scraper function is conducted on a pre-filled layer to produce the flakes or flakes 35. In Figure 9, the embodiment is illustrated by scraping flakes u flakes 35 in the recess 17 for movement by the conveyor 39. After an appropriate time interval to allow sufficient solidification, the scraper 34a will lower and the carriage 28 will move toward the end 14 to scrape the layer 47. In the above description , certain terms have been used for brevity, clarity and comprehension, - but unnecessary limitations shall not be implied beyond the requirements of the prior art, because these terms are used for descriptive purposes and are intended to be widely considered. Still further, the description and illustration of the invention is by way of example, and the scope of the invention is not limited to the exact details shown or described. Certain changes can be made in incorporating the previous invention, and in its construction, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is intended that all the material contained in the above description and shown in accompanying drawings shall be construed as illustrative and not intended in a limiting sense. A cycle of operation of the invention will now be described starting when the carriage 28 is placed in the limit switch 63. In this position, the switch 63 has been pushed in the direction of the plate 14 by movement of the carriage 28 towards the plate 14 This movement of the switch 63 stops the movement of the carriage 28 towards the plate 14 and reverses the operating direction of the motor 20 and lowers the scraper 34 (Figure 1) to contact the work surface 13 and start a synchronizer by a synchronization interval. . At the end of the synchronization interval; the synchronizer activates the motor 20 to send the carriage 28 towards the plate 16. During this movement towards the plate 16, the carriage 28 activates the limit switch 62, to cause opening of the valve 30 to activate the flow of liquid from the dispenser 32. The carriage 28 continues towards the plate 16 and activates the limit switch 65 to close the valve 30 and interrupt the flow of liquid from the spout 32. The carriage 28 continues until it contacts the limit switch 60 which stops the carriage, raise scraper 34 and activate a synchronizer. At the end of the synchronization interval, the motor 20 is activated in the reverse direction. In the reverse direction, the limit switch 62 is returned to its initial position, so that it can again activate the liquid flow in the return travel of the carriage 28 to the plate 16. Having now described the characteristics, discoveries and principles of the invention, the way in which the plate scale of the invention is constructed and used, the characteristics of the construction and new and useful advantageous results obtained, the structures, devices, elements, assemblies, parts and new and useful combinations they are set forth in the appended claims. It will also be understood that the following claims are intended to cover the generic and specific features of the invention described herein, and it can be said that all the declarations of the scope of the invention fall into them, as a matter of language. In this way having described the invention, what is claimed as new and wishes to be secured by patent is as follows.