Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1991-05-20
1994-01-04
Hornsby, Harvey S.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
99470, 99478, 99483, 415 73, 417 67, A23L 322
Patent
active
052750914
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for continuously 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 into the food product heated to a sterilization temperature, and a holding enclosure which may be integral with or separate from the heating enclosure for holding the food product and a sterile gas introduced therein at the steriIization temperature for a predetermined time. The apparatus further preferably comprises a cooling enclosure for cooling the food product. 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 a 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
Hornsby Harvey S.
Spisich Mark
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