Our kettles have a unique hemispherical bottom design for optimal mixing and a jacket designed for heating and cooling. All kettles are built to ASME specifications in various jacket and internal pressure ranges. Lee kettles are also available with a wide variety of features and accessories. All of our kettles can be custom built or modified to meet your specifications. Whether you need to accommodate pre-existing doorways, room sizes, or other limitations, we can tailor our products to your facility and your specific process.

Lee Kettles

Kettle Standard Features

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All Lee Kettle Styles Feature:
  • Traditional high-polished sanitary finish
  • Sanitary flanged rims
  • All stainless steel product contact parts

Lee Kettle Outlet Features:

  • Exclusive Lee designs permit shorter outlet fitting
  • Sanitary Acme threaded or tri-clamp ferrule provided on kettles
  • Optional Lee fluid transfer sanitary ball valve outlet

Lee Kettle Support Features:

  • Stainless steel pipe legs with fixed floor flanges
  • Optional portable designs

Lee Kettle Trunnion Style Features:

  • Free-pouring spout
  • Tilt handle on CD style
  • Hydraulic tilting on CHD
  • Worm gear tilting available on CWD

Kettle Options & Accessories

While the style of kettle you choose will have its own set of features, you also have the opportunity to choose from several other options.

 

Instrumentation

Our temperature sensing or control instruments can ensure you yield the desired results in heat transfer vessels. We offer:

  • A wide variety of temperature sensing control and recording instruments
  • Probe-type sensors
  • Stainless steel flush mounted sensors for scraper blade agitator installations

Covers

We offer various styles of sanitary covers for all types of Lee vessels.

  • Two- or three-piece covers, either lift-off or sanitary hinged
  • Furnished with special fittings or openings. if necessary
  • Removable or welded dished top heads for vacuum/pressure applications

Electropolishing and Finishing

We recognize the demand for high-quality, durable, ultra-sanitary finishes. We provide world-class mechanical finishes and can also provide electropolish finishes on all of our parts and products.

Style D - Super Jacket

Style D Super Jacket

 

Capacity 5 10 15 20 25 30 40  50607580
A 16 3/4 17 5/8 18 3/4 22 23 23 25 1/2 29 1/2323236
B 10 14 16 1/2 17 20 1/4 22 23 1/2 232427 1/225
C 26 1/8 30 1/8 32 5/8 33 1/8 36 3/8 38 1/8 39 5/8 39 1/840 1/843 5/841 1/8
D 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15151515
E1 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/22
F1 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/22
G3/43/43/43/43/43/43/43/43/43/41

 

Capacity 100 125 150 200 250 300 400 5006007501000
A 36 38 42 48 52 54 58 62666872
B 30 34 34 1/2 36 39 42 47 51546272
C 46 1/8 50 1/8 50 5/8 52 1/8 55 1/8 58 1/8 63 1/8 67 1/870 1/878 1/888 1/8
D 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15151515
E22333333333
F22222222333
G111 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/21 1/2222
  • The Style "D" super jacket has a large annular space on the hemisphere, accommodating both steam and water for your heating and cooling needs.
  • Optional internal spiral baffles incorporated into the standard jacket design promote directional flow of heating or cooling medium.
  • Optional Lee Uniflow Coil Jacket on the kettle straight side provides additional heat transfer surface area while providing uniform thermal flow, eliminating hot or cold spots.

Style CD - Super Jacket Trunnion Mounted Kettle with Manual Tilt

Style CD

 

Capacity 5 10 15 20
A 16 3/4 17 5/8 18 3/4 22
B 10 14 16 1/2 17
C 32 3/4 37 39 1/2 41 1/8
D 4 5/8 8 3/16 10 5/8 9 7/8
E26 1/82728 1/831 3/8
F2 1/42 1/42 1/42 1/4
  • Trunnion mounted and pouring lip for tilt-pouring
  • Outlet ferrule or valve may be added to bottom for draining
  • Lee Industries kettles standard feaures

Style CHD - Super Jacket Trunnion Mounted Kettle with Hydraulic Cylinder

Style CHD

 

Capacity 25 30 40 50 607580100125150200250300
A 23 23 25 1/2 29 1/2 323236363842485254
B 20 1/4 22 23 1/2 23 2427 1/225303434 1/2363942
C 44 46 47 1/2 48 49 1/25350 1/255 1/26061 1/2646770
D 12 1/2 14 14 1/4 12 3/4 12 1/21611 1/216 1/219 1/21917 1/218 1/220 1/2
E3/43/43/43/43/43/43/43/43/41111
F2 3/43333 1/23 1/23 1/23 1/244555
  • Identical kettle design to the manual tilt model
  • Hydraulic tilted trunnion kettles available in capacities ranging from 25 to 500 gallons
  • Optional worm gear tilting available up to certain sizes (model CWD)