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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1999
Claudio Bechini, Castelnuovo Berardenga, IT;
Libra Pharmaceutical Technologies, Florence, IT;
Abstract
A method for the cold sterilization of a tunnel-type oven ( ) for the hot sterilization of bottles, having an input chamber ( ), a hot sterilization chamber ( ), a cooling chamber ( ) and a conveyor ( ). The method consists of a sequence of operating phases which have to be carried out periodically when the oven is empty. The method includes airtightly closing the input ( ) and output ( ) openings of the oven ( ), suppyling a pre-defined amount of cold sterilization fluid mixed with air, until all the inner surfaces of the oven ( ) are reached by the fluid, opening a recycling duct ( ); stopping the supply of cold sterilization fluid, and supplying the oven ( ) with humidity and temperature controlled air.