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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1988
Nissen Corporation, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
Apparatus for sterilizing packed foods includes a sterilizing chamber for storing packed foods therein, a jet pipe mounted onthe interior upper portion of the sterilizing chamber for jetting mixture of steam and compressed air, an ejector having an inlet port, a suction port and an outlet port and connected at the outlet port to the jet pipe for generating a suction force through a flow of mixture of steam and compressed air, a steam line connected to the inlet port of the ejector for supplying steam thereto, a circulation line connected at one end to the interior lower portion of the sterilizing chamber and at the other end to the suction part of the ejector, a drain line connected to the bottom of the sterilizing chamber for exhausting a part of the mixture of steam and compressed air, a heat exchanger interposed between the sterilizing chamber and the drain line, and a compressed air line connected to the inlet port of the ejector through the heat exchanger.