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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2018
Applicant:
915 Labs, Inc., Denver, CO (US);
Inventor:
Harold Dail Kimrey, Jr., Knoxville, TN (US);
Assignee:
915 Labs, Inc., Denver, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/64 (2006.01); H05B 6/70 (2006.01); H05B 6/80 (2006.01); H05B 6/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 6/6411 (2013.01); H05B 6/6447 (2013.01); H05B 6/707 (2013.01); H05B 6/782 (2013.01); H05B 6/784 (2013.01); H05B 6/802 (2013.01); H05B 2206/044 (2013.01); H05B 2206/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
Processes and systems for pasteurizing and sterilizing a plurality of articles in a microwave heating system are provided. In certain aspects, groups of articles may be passed by a microwave launcher in a first convey direction and a second, opposite convey direction, so that each group of articles passes the microwave launcher more than once. Processes and systems described herein are also configured to uniformly heat spaced apart groups of articles without disrupting the operation of the microwave generator or distribution system.