Patent ID: 7749434

Claim:
Device for sterilizing at least partly formed packages in a packaging machine, said device comprises an inner chamber and an outer chamber, the inner chamber being provided with a sterilization unit for sterilizing at least an inside of at least one partly formed package, the device further comprises a carrier unit comprising at least one separating member and at least one package carrying member, the carrier unit being adapted to rotate between a first position in which said at least one package carrying member is located in the outer chamber and adapted to return and receive at least one package, and in which said at least one separating member separates the inner chamber from the outer chamber, and a second position in which the carrier unit has rotated and displaced said at least one package into the inner chamber and in which said at least one separating member separates the inner chamber from the outer chamber, and the device further comprises means for providing a relative motion between the package and the sterilizing unit for bringing them to a position in which the sterilizing unit is located at least partly in the package for treating it.