JPH07313126A - Food heating and sterilizing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an efficient gas-containing food heating and sterilizing tank for dealing with diversified small-quantity production of the gas-containing foods. CONSTITUTION:A sterilizing tank 6 is divided in the longitudinal direction at the center between a pair of a right and a left water pouring containers 5a and 5b in the tank. The hollow water pouring containers 5a and 5b equipped with plural nozzles at both sides are detachably stood. Circulating water heated by a pair of the right and the left water pouring containers 5a and 5b and a heat exchanger is supplied and sprayed from the plural nozzles at both the sides to pour water into a gas-containing food placed in the sterilizing tank 1.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a food heat sterilizer, and more particularly to a food heat sterilizer for sterilizing various kinds of aerated food products.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a food heat sterilizer, water injection containers are provided on both left and right sides in a sterilization tank, and a plurality of nozzles are formed on opposite surfaces of the water injection container. The retort pouch or the like placed inside is sprayed on the air-containing food sealed to heat-sterilize the air-containing food. In this case, in order to sterilize a large or small amount of aerated foods in the sterilization tank, the tray cart on which the aerated foods are placed is large, and the aerated foods of different packaged sizes are heat-sterilized together. Then, there is a case where hot water is not sprayed because it is blocked by the large aerated food, and it is necessary to adjust the arrangement on the tray carriage, and efficient heat sterilization treatment of the aerated food cannot be performed.

[0003]

In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the present invention subdivides the inside of a sterilization tank to provide an efficient heat sterilization treatment of aerated food products corresponding to a variety of small amounts of aerated food products. The purpose is to do.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, the center of the tank is partitioned in the front-back direction between a pair of left and right water injection containers in the sterilization tank, and a plurality of hollow nozzles are formed on both side surfaces. A water injection container is detachably installed upright, and circulating water heated by a heat exchanger flows in along with a pair of left and right water injection containers and is ejected from a plurality of nozzles on both sides, and is an aerated food placed in a sterilization tank. I tried to pour water.

[0005]

[Advantages] With the above configuration, when performing heat sterilization treatment of various kinds of aerated foods, water injection that extends in the front-rear direction in the center of the sterilization tank and is hollow and has a plurality of nozzles on both sides A container is erected to divide the inside of the sterilization tank into two parts, and various small amounts of aerated foods are placed on the tray trolley with a narrow width corresponding to the divided left and right water injection containers and connected to the left and right water injection containers. By injecting the hot water heated by the heat exchanger from the nozzles on both sides, it is possible to evenly inject the aerated food products having different sizes.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional front view showing the structure of the sterilization tank of the present invention. A pedestal 3 into which a tray truck 2 is loaded is formed at the bottom of the sterilization tank 1, and a plurality of guide rails 4 are mounted on the pedestal 3. The tray carriage 2 is carried in along the guide rails 4 and arranged at a predetermined position. On both left and right sides of the sterilization tank 1, water injection containers 5a having a plurality of nozzles 8 for injecting hot water are provided on the opposite surfaces, and the hot water is evenly supplied to the water injection containers 5a on both the left and right sides through a supply pipeline 6. The hot and dry food is placed in the sterilization tank 1 from both left and right sides.

Further, a partition 7 extending in the front-rear direction is detachably provided in the center of the sterilization tank 1, and a water injection container 5b, which is hollow and has a plurality of nozzles 8 formed on both side surfaces, is incorporated in the partition 7, and a supply pipe is provided. The hot water is supplied by a pipe (not shown) branched from the path 6 so as to face the water injection containers 5a on both the left and right sides and to inject the hot water toward the small tray carriage 2 carried in between. ing. As described above, the removable partition wall 7 is provided in the sterilization tank 1, and the partition wall 7 is provided with the water injection container 5b in which the plurality of nozzles 8 are formed. However, the heat sterilization can be surely performed, and the aerated food having the same shape and subjected to a large amount of sterilization can be heat sterilized in the same manner as in the past by removing the central partition wall 7.

[0008]

As described above, according to the present invention, a partition is detachably provided in the center of the sterilization tank, and the partition is provided with a hollow water injection container having a plurality of nozzles on the left and right sides, and is connected to the left and right water injection containers. However, by injecting hot water to the aerated food placed between the left and right water injection containers, it is possible to cope with the sterilization treatment of various small amounts of aerated food.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional front view showing the structure of a sterilization tank of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Sterilization tank 2 Tray cart 3 Pedestal 4 Guide rail 5a Water injection container 5b Water injection container 6 Supply pipeline 7 Partition wall 8 Nozzle

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pair of left and right water injection containers in the sterilization tank, the center of the water tank is partitioned in the front-rear direction, and a hollow water injection container having a plurality of nozzles formed on both side surfaces is detachably provided upright and left. Circulating water heated by a heat exchanger flows in together with the water injection container, is ejected from a plurality of nozzles on both sides, and water is injected into the aerated food placed in the sterilization tank. Sterilizer.