Method for controlling the ripening of fresh produce

Details Method for controlling the ripening of fresh produce Method for controlling the ripening of fresh produce

1988-07-28

1991-07-02

Czaja, Donald E.

Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products

Contacting food in liquid or solid state with exteriorly...

426321, 426419, B65D 8120

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050284436

ABSTRACT:
In a method and apparatus for controlling the ripening of fresh fruit, a stack of fruit boxes is spiral wound with a transparent synthetic resin strip around the four vertically oriented faces of the box stack. The boxes within the stack have openings on their upper and lower faces which register with corresponding openings in vertically adjacent boxes to permit a vertical movement of an air-ethylene mixture through the stack. A plastic cap or lid is disposed on top of the stack of boxes and is provided with a blower for drawing air vertically through the stack from the bottom thereof. An air-conditioning unit and an ethylene containing bottle may be disposed in a unit on which a pallet supporting the stack of boxes rests. Effluent air or a mixture of air and ethylene is fed back to the air-conditioning unit via a conduit on the outside of the wrapped stack of boxes.

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