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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2007
François Quetel, Octeville sur Mer, FR;
Stéphane Hebert, Octeville sur Mer, FR;
François Quetel, Octeville sur Mer, FR;
Stéphane Hebert, Octeville sur Mer, FR;
Sidel Participations, Octeville sur Mer, FR;
Abstract
The method includes at least the following steps of spraying a flow of sterilizing vapor, including a vaporized sterilizing product, towards the preforms to be sterilized, so as to cover at least an inner wall () of the preforms to be sterilized with the product; and heating, by radiation, the preforms covered with sterilizing product in order to bring them to a temperature (T) at or above an activation temperature (Ta) for the product. The spraying of the flow of sterilizing vapor is carried out in a protective chamber (), heating is carried out outside the protective chamber (), and the flow of sterilizing vapor is in the form of a jet of vapor (F) vaporized onto the preforms (), in such a way as to bring about the deposition, by condensation, of a substantially uniform film of condensate () of sterilizing product on at least the inner wall () of the preforms to be sterilized.