Device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products

• US 4,280,361 A
• Filed: 11/08/1979
• Issued: 07/28/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: SACA Italia SRL
• Original Assignee: Franco Sala
• Inventors: Sala, Franco
• Primary Examiner(s): Woodiel, Donald O.
• Application Number:
  US06/092,616
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 73/356, 116/219, 116/217, 426/88
• US Class Current: 116/216
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 11/06 using melting, freezing, or softening

Abstract

A process for detecting and signaling the defrosting, even temporary, of frozen products which consist in providing a detecting device consisting of a closed container having therein a colorless and a colored element which, under frozen conditions, are separate from each other but will admix and form a single colored mixture on defrosting. The presence of said single mixture indicates that defrosting has taken place. The device is also disclosed and claimed.

Claims

1. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a rigid container, on the inside of which there are two solutions, one at least aqueous and saline and another one at least colored, separated by a septum breakable at the moment of freezing, said container being wholly filled with one of the solutions in one portion with respect to said septum.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein there is provided a septum separating the two solutions, which septum is removed mechanically by the increase in volume of one of said solutions at the moment of freezing.

3. A device according to claim 1, wherein said septum perforable by impulse due to the increase in volume, there being provided means capable of producing and supporting laceration of said septum.

4. A device according to claim 1 wherein there is provided a set of several of said rigid containers wherein each of said containers contains different saline solutions so that the degree of the defrosting process which has taken place can be observed.

5. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a flexable container containing an aqueous saline solution in which a colored solution is dipped held in a breakable wholly filled container.

6. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a container having a colored saline solution, separated from an absorbent material, by a septum breakable at the moment of freezing.

7. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a rigid container in which there are two solutions, one at least aqueous and saline and the other colored, separated by a septum breakable at the time of freezing one of which solutions being contained in a breakable unit dipped in the other solution, the entire entity being located in said rigid container entirely filled with one of the two solutions in the portion where volume is to increase during freezing of the solutions with respect to the septum.

8. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a container wholly filled with a solution wherein a resin element, that can be disintegrated on freezing, is dipped so that a coloring matter therein contained is liberated.

9. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a rigid container having an aqueous saline solution separated by a septum from a detecting element operated by elastic means, said septum being breakable on freezing of said solution.

10. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a container containing an aqueous saline solution separated from an expansible hygroscopic body by a septum breakable at the time of freezing.

11. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a container consisting of two flat slates welded along their edges and containing a sheet of blotting paper, one of said slates having a cavity containing a previously frozen colored solution, said solution being in touch with the blotting paper.

12. A device for detecting the defrosting of frozen products, which comprises a rigid container in which there is an aqueous saline solution separated by a septum from an element capable of lowering the eutectic point of said solution, said solution containing a colored mechanical indicator element and said septum being breakable at the time of freezing of said solution.