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Continuous-processing type sterilizer and cooker for providing packaged foods completely sterilized with a small heat-energy consumption and retaining the color, fragrance, taste, texture and quality similar to unprepared foods by taking the steps of immersing a product cage, wherein contains the pa

Continuous-processing type sterilizer and cooker for providing packaged foods completely sterilized with a small heat-energy consumption and retaining the color, fragrance, taste, texture and quality similar to unprepared foods by taking the steps of immersing a product cage, wherein contains the packaged foods, in pressurized hot-water in a sterilization tank, moving the cage within the hot water by means of a drive means for a given period of time, transferring it through a transfer tank from the hot water to a pressurized cooling water in a cooling tank, and moving it within the cooling water by means of a drive means for a given period of time. Both the sterilization tank and the cooling tank are connected to the transfer tank at their one end, the sterilization tank having a preparatory chamber at its other end and the cooling tank having an off-loading chamber at its other end. The chamber is provided with an elevator, lowering or raising within the connecting portion between the chamber and the tank, and separating the chamber from the tank in a manner that the rim of the elevator is bound to the flange of the lower end of the chamber thereby forming an airtight system.

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A hot-water sterilizer and cooker of the continuous processing type for sterilizing and cooking food in packages held in product cages comprising (1) a sterilization tank containing hot water therein under a given pressure, said tank including a first end, a second end, a preparatory chamber having

A hot-water sterilizer and cooker of the continuous processing type for sterilizing and cooking food in packages held in product cages comprising (1) a sterilization tank containing hot water therein under a given pressure, said tank including a first end, a second end, a preparatory chamber having pipe means connected thereto for injecting and discharging pressurized gas into and from the preparatory chamber and an elevator on which one of the product cages containing food packages can be placed, a connecting portion connecting said first end of said sterilization tank and said preparatory chamber, pipe means connected to the sterilization tank for injecting pressurized gas thereinto, hot-water circulation means connected to the sterilization tank for circulating hot water in the circulation tank, and drive means for intermittently moving the product cage immersed in the hot water through the sterilization tank from the first end to the second end thereof thereby stirring the hot water and ensuring that sufficient hot water is in constant contact with the food packages to enhance the efficiency of heat transmission, (2) a cooling tank containing cooling water therein under a given pressure and having a first end, a second end, and an off-loading chamber connected to the second end of the cooling tank, and (3) a transfer tank having two ends, said transfer tank being connected at one end thereof to said second end of the sterilization tank and at the other end thereof to said first end of the cooling tank.