METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AGEING OF PERISHABLES

Title:

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AGEING OF PERISHABLES

Document Type and Number:

Japanese Patent JPS6379527

Kind Code:

A

Abstract:

In a method and apparatus for controlling the ripening of fresh fruit, a stack of fruit boxes is spiral wound with a transparent synthetic resin strip around the four vertically oriented faces of the box stack. The boxes within the stack have openings on their upper and lower faces which register with corresponding openings in vertically adjacent boxes to permit a vertical movement of an air-ethylene mixture through the stack. A plastic cap or lid is disposed on top of the stack of boxes and is provided with a blower for drawing air vertically through the stack from the bottom thereof. An air-conditioning unit and an ethylene containing bottle may be disposed in a unit on which a pallet supporting the stack of boxes rests. Effluent air or a mixture of air and ethylene is fed back to the air-conditioning unit via a conduit on the outside of the wrapped stack of boxes.

Inventors:

UIRIAMU UEIDO

Application Number:

JP17605987A

Publication Date:

April 09, 1988

Filing Date:

July 16, 1987

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