Patent ID: 7815877
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: A61L,B65B,B67B

Abstract:
1. Sterilizing device for sterilizing closures, such as lids and caps for containers, such as bottles and jars, which device comprises a housing, which housing is provided with a closure entry for supplying closures at the top of a pass-through means, a closure exit for discharging sterilized closures from the device at the bottom of the pass-through means, the pass-through means for passing closures through the housing under the influence of the force of gravity from said closure entry to said closure exit, a sterilizing-agent feed for feeding sterilizing agent into the device and a discharge for discharging used sterilizing agent, the pass-through means comprising a non-rectilinear pass-through path in the plane parallel to the main plane of the closures.