Foods and beverages: apparatus – Subjecting food to an enclosed modified atmosphere – Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure
Patent
1995-07-24
1998-06-30
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Subjecting food to an enclosed modified atmosphere
Including means to influence movement of gas within enclosure
99467, 211113, 248686, A23B 704, A23L 300, A23L 336
Patent
active
057717907
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to perishable food storage systems, and in particular to a system for delaying the ripening process for bananas or the like. The present invention delays the ripening process by decreasing the concentration of ethylene gas in the air adjacent to the bananas. The preferred embodiment of the present invention accomplishes this by using a spreading mechanism to spread the hand of bananas, coupled with a fan or the like to direct air flow through and then away from the hand of bananas, thereby decreasing the ethylene gas concentration of the adjacent air, and thus decreases the ripening rate. The benefit of this method of removing ethylene gas is that it is inexpensive and easy to implement in conjunction with the specially designed rack, which is configured for holding a hand of bananas.
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