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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2020
Smartwash Solutions, Llc, Salinas, CA (US);
James M. Brennan, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Danny Elmer Lindstrom, Rio Vista, CA (US);
Christopher Michael McGinnis, Salinas, CA (US);
Eric Child Wilhelmsen, Milpitas, CA (US);
SMARTWASH SOLUTIONS, LLC, Salinas, CA (US);
Abstract
A produce wash system is provided. The produce wash system includes a produce line including a short-term wash device and a rinse transition component followed by a wash device, a short-term wash treatment that is applied by the short-term wash device to a product, wherein the short-term wash treatment remains on the product for a pretreatment time that lasts until the short-term wash treatment is rinsed off, and a rinse solution applied by the rinse transition component that rinses the product after the product leaves the short-term wash device and before the product enters the wash device, and a wash treatment that is applied by the wash device to the product, wherein the wash treatment rinses any remaining short-term wash treatment from the product. The pretreatment time is set at or below a damage threshold time beyond which the short-term wash treatment damages the product beyond a damage threshold.