WASHING/STERILIZING DEVICE, AND WASHING/STERILIZING METHOD

• Main Authors: MAJIMA SHUJI, HIRAGA YUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.03.2007
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLESOR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT,VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a washing/sterilizing device safely and reliably washing vegetables, sufficiently sterilizing the vegetables with acidic electrolytic water, and preventing deterioration in quality of the vegetables due to washing: and to provide a washing/sterilizing method by which vegetables are safely and reliably washed, sufficiently sterilized with acidic electrolytic water and prevented from deterioration in quality of the vegetables due to washing. SOLUTION: The washing/sterilizing device 1 is provided with a plurality of soaking tanks charged with liquid where articles are soaked and sterilized while moved among the soaking tanks, wherein a washing part 10 having a washing/soaking tank 11 of the soaking tanks to the liquid in which minute air bubbles are supplied, and a sterilizing part 20 having a sterilizing/soaking tank 21 where acidic electrolytic water is stored and the article is supplied from the washing/soaking tank 11 of the washing part. In the device, the article is soaked in the acidic electrolytic water in the sterilizing/soaking tank of the sterilizing part after removal of contamination via minute air bubbles so that sterilization effect at the surface of the article is improved and thereby the sterilization and the removal of contamination from the surface of the article can be surely performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT