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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2002
Robert E. Hanson, Middleton, WI (US);
Craig R. Bonneville, Appleton, WI (US);
Tou T. Vang, Lodi, WI (US);
Vernon D. Karman, Poynette, WI (US);
Gary Lee Hahn, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
Nelly Feze, Madison, WI (US);
John J. Jurkowski, Middleton, WI (US);
Robert E. Hanson, Middleton, WI (US);
Craig R. Bonneville, Appleton, WI (US);
Tou T. Vang, Lodi, WI (US);
Vernon D. Karman, Poynette, WI (US);
Gary Lee Hahn, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
Nelly Feze, Madison, WI (US);
John J. Jurkowski, Middleton, WI (US);
Alkar RapidPak, Inc., Lodi, WI (US);
Abstract
In a web packaging machine () and method packaging a food product (P) between upper and lower webs (and), wherein the lower web () is transported through a series of stations which form the lower web () into a component of a package at a forming station (), and receive the food product (P) at a loading station (), and close the package with the upper web () at a closing station (), a pasteurization station () is provided between the loading station () and the closing station () and pasteurizing the food product (P).