 Birdseye's double belt freezer (US Patent #1,773,079) Clarence Birdseye (December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956) was an American inventor who is considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 506 pixelsFull resolution (2700 × 1708 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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Early life
Birdseye was born in Brooklyn in New York City. He became interested in the preservation of food by freezing while working as a field naturalist for the United States government in Labrador, Canada, between 1912-1915, a job he had taken to help pay for his education as a biology major at Amherst College. There he noticed that fish that are very quickly frozen will appear fresh upon thawing. This article is about the borough of New York City. ...
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In 1922 Birdseye conducted fish-freezing experiments at the Clothel Refrigerating Company, then established his own company, Birdseye Seafoods Inc., to freeze fish fillets via chilled air. In 1924, however, his company went bankrupt due to lack of consumer interest in the product. That same year he developed an entirely new process for commercially viable quick-freezing: pack fish in cartons, then freeze the contents between two refrigerated surfaces under pressure. Birdseye created a new company, General Seafood Corporation, to promote this new approach. Flash freezing refers to the application of supercooling in various kinds of industries whereby objects are quickly frozen by subjecting them to super low temperatures. ...
Industrial Development In 1925 his General Seafood Corporation moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts. There it employed Birdseye's newest invention, the double belt freezer, in which cold brine chilled a pair of stainless steel belts carrying packaged fish so the fish froze extremely quickly. His invention subsequently issued as US Patent #1,773,079, and marked the beginning of today's frozen foods industry. Birdseye then began to take out a series of patents on quick-freezing, whereby foods are frozen so quickly that only small ice crystals can form and cell walls are not damaged. In 1927 he began to extend the process to quick-freezing of meat, poultry, fruit, and vegetables. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
In 1929 Birdseye sold his company and patents for $22 million to Goldman Sachs and the Postum Company, which eventually became General Foods Corporation, and which founded the Birds Eye Frosted Food Company. In 1930 the company began sales experiments in 18 retail stores around Springfield, Massachusetts to test consumer acceptance of quick-frozen foods. The initial product line featured 26 items, including 18 cuts of frozen meat, spinach and peas, a variety of fruits and berries, blue point oysters, and fish fillets. Consumer acceptance was strong, and today this experiment is considered the birth of retail frozen foods. The "Birds Eye" name remains a leading frozen-food brand. For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ...
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Post Cereals, formerly Postum Cereals was founded by C. W. Post. ...
General Foods Corporation was a company established under that name by Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1929. ...
Birds Eye is a company which operates in the UK making and selling frozen fish, meat and vegetables. ...
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Awards and Recognition A charter member of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in 1939, he received the Babcock-Hart Award in 1949. Birdseye would be posthumously inducted into Food Engineering's Hall of Fame in 2003. Institute of Food Technologists The Insitute of Food Technologists or IFT is an international, non-profit professional organization for the advancement of food science and technology. ...
The Babcock-Hart Award has been awarded since 1948 by the Institute of Food Technologists. ...
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