Patent ID: 8501110
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: A61L,A61P,B65B

Abstract:
1. A sterilizing tunnel for pharmaceutical containers, comprising: a heating zone; at least one cooling zone; a transport apparatus that conveys the containers through the heating zone and the at least one cooling zone where the containers are sterilized; laminar flow means within the heating zone for generating air currents that circulate around the containers in the heating zone which heat the containers, and laminar flow means within the at least one cooling zone for generating air currents that circulate around the containers in the at least one cooling zone, the laminar flow means embodied by a ventilating fan unit disposed above the transport apparatus in each zone; and at least in the region of the heating zone, in addition to the laminar flow means, at least one radiant heat-generating heating unit acting on the container bottoms, wherein the heating zone is divided into a first region and a second region, and the at least one radiant heat-generating heating unit is disposed in the first region, and wherein the first region is separated by from the second region by means of a dividing wall, and the second region contains the ventilating fan unit which acts on the containers while they are in the heating zone.