Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Contacting food in liquid or solid state with exteriorly... – Including packaging of contacted food or treatment of...
Patent
1974-06-17
1976-02-17
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Contacting food in liquid or solid state with exteriorly...
Including packaging of contacted food or treatment of...
21 91, 21DIG4, 53112B, 99472, 99516, A23L 334, B65B 3104, B65B 5500
Patent
active
039392872
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and process for sterilizing substances and particularly food products such as food spices and seasonings which are in a processed or unprocessed condition and are in a powdered, granular, flaky, leafy or similar conditions, the apparatus including means for subjecting the product while in a container such as a plastic or plastic-like bag, first to a subatmospheric condition and thereafter injecting a gaseous sterilant at a central location in the product whereby the sterilant diffuses outwardly through the product toward the walls of the container sterilizing the product in the process and gradually escaping through the container leaving the packaged product in a sealed closed and sterilized condition. The invention resides in the apparatus used for sterilizing and in sterilizing process which may include additional steps of back flushing especially when relatively large containers of products are sterilized and where it is desired to shorten the time when the packaged product is safe to handle, ship and use.
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Orwig David F.
Roecklein Robert G.
Cantor Alan
Haverstock Charles B.
Hornsby Harvey C.
Spicecraft, Inc.
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