A - Human Necessities – 23 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
23
B
99/183, 99/206
A23B 7/00 (2006.01) A23B 7/005 (2006.01) A23L 3/18 (2006.01) A23L 3/22 (2006.01) B65B 55/14 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1297337
- 0 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASEPTICALLY PROCESSING A FOOD PRODUCT Abstract of the Disclosure A method and apparatus are disclosed for continuously and gently aseptically processing a food product comprising delicate food chunks of fruit, vegetables or the like immersed in a liquid. The apparatus comprises a heating enclosure into which the food product and a nonsterile gas are introduced and the food product heated to a sterilization temperature, a holding enclosure for holding the food product and a sterile gas introduced therein at the sterilization temperature for a predetermined time, and preferably a cooling enclosure for cooling the food product. The heating, holding and cooling enclosures are preferably provided with rotatable helical feed pumps in product communication with one another for feeding the food product and a gas through the enclosures in succession. In a preferred embodiment, a first separator is interposed between the heating and-holding enclosures for separating a nonsterile gas from the food product. The food product and an added sterile gas are fed into the rotatable helical feed pump in the holding enclosure. A second separator receives the aseptic food product from the rotatable helical feed pump in the cooling enclosure for separating the aseptic gas and a portion of the liquid from the food product to produce aseptic food chunks which are then fed along with a predetermined quantity of the aseptic liquid to any suitable container filling machine.
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Athey Roderick E.
Mcfarlane Donald P.
Graham Corporation
Kirby Eades Gale Baker
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