Abstract A horizontally positioned rotor in an aseptic canning system, particularly adapted for glass jar containers, is rotatable about an upright axis in an enclosed container sterilizer housing having an entrance and an exit for the containers. A plurality of peripheral pockets open toward the periphery of the rotor continuously convey the containers. Vacuum is applied to the pockets beyond the entrance to withdraw air, and saturated steam under superatmospheric pressure is applied between the vacuum and the exit to sterilize the containers. Pressure is relieved by a bleed connection between the steam application and the exit, which leads to a location adjacent but ahead of the entrance to thus provide a pressure seal against entrance of outside air into the sterile portion of such container sterilizer.
Inventors
👤 Gerhart A Guckel
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-10-29 17:26
CPC Classifications
B; B65; B65B; B65B55/00; B65B55/02; B65B55/027
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim
154 words
A conveying system comprising a substantially horizontally positioned cylindrical enclosure provided with a bottom and a side wall, the side wall having an exit opening, a rotor rotatable within said enclosure and having open bottom pockets around and open toward the periphery thereof for conveying objects in sliding engagement along the bottom wall, the bottom wall being provided with a well adjacent to and ahead of said exit, the bottom of said well being below the main bottom portion of the housing a distance less than the height of said objects, to allow the bottom portions of said objects to lower into the well before they arrive at said exit to thereby expose said bottom portions of the objects below said pockets, and a stripper member between said exit and said well extending into said well below the rotor to engage The exposed portions of the respective objects and direct them toward said exit.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
154 words
A conveying system comprising a substantially horizontally positioned cylindrical enclosure provided with a bottom and a side wall, the side wall having an exit opening, a rotor rotatable within said enclosure and having open bottom pockets around and open toward the periphery thereof for conveying objects in sliding engagement along the bottom wall, the bottom wall being provided with a well adjacent to and ahead of said exit, the bottom of said well being below the main bottom portion of the housing a distance less than the height of said objects, to allow the bottom portions of said objects to lower into the well before they arrive at said exit to thereby expose said bottom portions of the objects below said pockets, and a stripper member between said exit and said well extending into said well below the rotor to engage The exposed portions of the respective objects and direct them toward said exit.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
40 words
The conveying system of claim 1, wherein the objects are glass jars, and a downwardly sloping ramp is provided leading from adjacent the beginning of to the bottom of said well to enable gradual lowering of said jars by gravity.