Apparatus and method for sterilizing items in sealed flexible pouches
CA 1064757 A · Owner: Quaker Oats Company (The) · Inventors: Hohner, Gary A.; Buix, Louis F.; Gribnitz, Harry J.
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An apparatus is disclosed for sterilizing items sealed in a flexible pouch. The apparatus comprises: a means for depositing filled and sealed flexible pouches on stackable trays with the stackable trays capable of controlling the exposed cross-section of flexible pouches thereon and providing a continuous conduit for a heating medium to circulate about the pouches; means for stacking the stackable trays with the pouches thereon; and means for circulation a heating medium about the pouches to sterilize the items in the pouches. A method is also disclosed for sterilizing the contents of flexible pouches comprising: sealing the material to be sterilized in air and light impermeable flexible, …
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- Granted October 23, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 23, 1996.
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