Cooling method and nine-down packaging configuration for enhanced cooling of produce
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Apr 23, 2013
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Mar 15, 2012
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Nov 18, 2011
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Jan 24, 1996
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The invention encompasses packaging and cooling methods and systems designed to improve cooling efficiencies, reduce damage to the contents of containers, and increase product packing density. A system of the present invention incorporates baskets loaded into trays and trays loaded in preferred configurations on a pallet. The trays are loaded with baskets arranged in the tray so that ventilation slots and/or channels of the baskets are aligned with tray ventilation openings. Nine (9) trays are loaded onto a standard pallet in a 3 by 3 configuration. Additionally, the trays are arranged so that the tray ventilation openings are in alignment with ventilation openings of other trays of the same layer. This 3 by 3 layer of trays comprises a so-called “nine-down†configuration. As will be discussed below, his configuration has some surprising cooling advantageous standard packaging configurations.
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