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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sherman H Creed, Fresno, CA (US);
Wesley G Thompson, Madera, CA (US);
Adil A Mughannam, Fresno, CA (US);
Robert G Beverly, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
FMC Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
99468 ; 99361 ; 99470 ; 99474 ; 99477 ; 99483 ; 104 48 ; 104167 ; 414240 ; 422304 ;
Abstract
The disclosed sterilizing apparatus makes use of mobile cars containing a quantity of packages. The cars are continuously intermittently advanced to a package loading position, to an inlet lock where pressurizing and preheating of the car and its contents occur, to a sterilizing chamber for a sufficient period of time to effect sterilization, to a discharge lock that depressurizes and partially cools the car and its contents, to an atmospheric cooling station, to a water discharge station and then to a package unloading station.