PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat-sterilizing apparatus enabling uniform sterilization treatment by bringing seeds in a perforated basket into contact with hot water well. SOLUTION: This heat-sterilizing apparatus is constituted so that the seeds may be sterilized by soaking the perforated basket 3 storing the seeds to be sterilized in the hot water stored in a container. The heat-sterilizing apparatus has swinging arms 1 having the perforated basket 3 pivotally attached to each one terminal part with a swinging shaft 4, and turned around a turning shaft 2 at the other terminal parts to dislocate the perforated basket 3 in the container. The perforated basket 3 is inserted in the container storing the hot water and swung around the swinging shaft 4 through chain wheels 6, 7, 8 and a chain 9 at a prescribed swinging angle. As a result, disorder and various movement is imparted to the hot water in the container, and the contact of the seeds in the perforated basket with the hot water is evenly repeated to uniformly heat the seeds within a prescribed sterilization time. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
