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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2005
Jeffrey H. Mackay, San Diego, CA (US);
Renato Giordano, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Randall J. Lanham, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Rod Corder, Chesterton, IN (US);
Jeffrey H. Mackay, San Diego, CA (US);
Renato Giordano, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Randall J. Lanham, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Rod Corder, Chesterton, IN (US);
Other;
Abstract
Tunnel is provided for conditioning of food products, especially for sterilization of food in containers or vessels of the heat-sealed type, in which the conditioning unit has: 1) an active temperature and pressure control system provided in at least one magnetron supported heating stage, which provides for balancing of the pressure within the heat-sealed vessels or containers; 2) a conveyor which conveys the heat-sealed vessels or containers through the stages along the conditioning unit which contains mechanisms that move the conveyor outside of the conditioning tunnel, and 3) doors operating like check valves that separate the conditioning stages, but still provide for continuous linear feed of products through conditioning tunnel. Movement of the magnetron electromagnetic field and/or conveyor is controlled by software which utilizes the temperature and/or density measurements in a closed loop process to ensure uniform heating of the products.