Web packaging pasteurization system

US6843043B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Alkar-RapidPak, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Robert E. Hanson · Middleton, US
• Craig R. Bonneville · Appleton, US
• Tou T. Vang · DeForest, US
• Vernon D. Karman · Poynette, US
• Gary Lee Hahn · Sun Prairie, US
• Nelly Feze · Madison, US
• John J. Jurkowski · Middleton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 2002
• Grant date: Jan 18, 2005
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B55/14
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a web packaging machine (10) and method packaging a food product (P) between upper and lower webs (14 and 25), wherein the lower web (14) is transported through a series of stations which form the lower web (14) into a component of a package at a forming station (18), and receive the food product (P) at a loading station (20), and close the package with the upper web (25) at a closing station (26), a pasteurization station (300) is provided between the loading station (20) and the closing station (26) and pasteurizing the food product (P).