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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2008
Michael J. Mastio, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Rei-young Amos Wu, Palatine, IL (US);
Michael F. Mcgowan, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Subodh K. Raniwala, Barrington, IL (US);
Gregory Schimmel, Barrington, IL (US);
James D. Schuman, Barrington, IL (US);
Steven Havlik, Barrington, IL (US);
Michael J. Mastio, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Rei-Young Amos Wu, Palatine, IL (US);
Michael F. McGowan, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Subodh K. Raniwala, Barrington, IL (US);
Gregory Schimmel, Barrington, IL (US);
James D. Schuman, Barrington, IL (US);
Steven Havlik, Barrington, IL (US);
Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for sterile filling of beverage containers has a first module and a second module. The first module rinses and sterilizes empty containers and delivers the sterilized containers to the second module. The second module fills and caps the containers with beverage product at ambient temperature in an active sterilization zone utilizing an e-beam sterilization unit.