House Food Industrial Company Limited

Akinobu Ono

Ko Sugisawa

Kazuya Sekiguchi

Kiyoaki Tuji

Kiyoaki Tsuzi

An apparatus for continuously sterilizes and fills food and medicines containing solids. In this apparatus, a filler nozzle is disposed downstream of a back-pressure tank, and a control valve is interposed between the back-pressure tank and the filler nozzle for controlling the flow rate of the products which are delivered from the sterilizer to the back-pressure tank. The control valve avoids a remarkable pressure loss which might otherwise be invited in the series passages of the apparatus. The outflow of air from the back pressure tank to the filler nozzle is minimized so that the back pressure can be applied to the sterilizer as stably as possible. At the same time, the sterilized products are continuously fed to the filler nozzle so that they can be packed simultaneously with their upstream sterilization.

Continuous sterilizing and packing apparatus

A sterilization apparatus suitable for sterilizing food and medicines containing solid particles, which comprises a forcing device, a sterilizer, a backpressure tank and a backpressure device. The sterilization apparatus is sterilized beforehand under application of a backpressure by employing the forcing device and the backpressure device. The products are sterilized in the sterilizer under pressure by the forcing device and the backpressure tank, and then the sterilized products are collected in the backpressure tank.

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