Method for inhibiting potato sprouts

• US 3,128,170 A
• Filed: 08/25/1960
• Issued: 04/07/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edwin K. Plant
• Original Assignee: Edwin K. Plant
• Inventors: Plant, Edwin K.
• Application Number:
  US04/051,765
• Time in Patent Office: 1,321 Days
• US Class Current: 504/304
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 47/20 N-Aryl derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 47/22 O-Aryl or S-Aryl esters thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A23B 7/144 in the form of gases, e.g. fumigation; Compositions or apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A23B 7/154 Organic compounds; Microorganisms; Enzymes

Claims

1. A METHOD OF TREATING POTATOES TO INHIBIT THE SPROUTING THEREOF AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF REDUCING SUGARS THEREIN DURING STORAGE WHICH COMPRISES ESTABLISHING A GAS STREAM HAVING A TEMPERATURE OF FROM ABOUT 40*F. TO 70*F., GENERATING FINELY DIVIDED LIQUID PARTICLES OF A SIZE OF FROM 1 TO 10 MICRONS OF AN ORGANIC SOLUTION OF ISOPROPYL N-3-CHLOROPHENYLCARBAMATE, THE ORGANIC SOLVENT CONTENT OF WHICH CONSISTS OF A WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC SOLVENT HAVING A NORMAL BOILING POINT GREATER THAN 212*F., DISTRIBUTING SAID LIQUID PARTICLES IN SAID GAS STREAM TO FORM A STABLE SUSPENSION IN SAID GAS STREAM OF SAID FINELY DIVIDED LIQUID PARTICLES, CIRCULATING THE RESULTING SUSPENSION AT A TEMPERATURE SUBSTANTIALLY BELOW THE NORMAL BOILING POINT OF SAID ORGANIC SOLVENT AND WITHIN SAID RANGE OF FROM ABOUT 40*F. TO 70*F. IN CONTACT WITH POTATOES, DEPOSITING A SPROUT-INHIBITING CONCENTRATION OF ISOPROPYL N-3-CHLOROPHENYLCABAMATE FROM SAID SUSPENSION UPON THE POTATOES AND THEREAFTER STORING SAID POTATOES AT A TEMPERATURE OF BETWEEN 50*F. AND 70*F.