Agitating – Having interrelated feed and discharge means – Including means to monitor or control operation
Reexamination Certificate
2000-09-22
2001-08-28
Simone, Timothy F. (Department: 1761)
Agitating
Having interrelated feed and discharge means
Including means to monitor or control operation
C366S159100, C366S348000, C366S601000, C099S348000, C099S409000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06280075
ABSTRACT:
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claim the priority of the Swiss patent application No. 703/98, which has been filed on Mar. 25, 1998 and the disclosure of which is herewith incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a system for continuously preparing at least two different liquid foodstuff mixtures of which each consists of a mixture of several liquid mixture components and includes at least one mixture component which is common to all mixtures, which plant is intended to be connected to continuously operating filling apparatuses for the liquid foodstuff liquids.
These liquid foodstuff mixtures may be for instance directly consumable beverages, with or without CO
2
, may however, be also present in form of a so-called syrup which such as known for several kinds of beverages, is skipped in barrels to the end user such to be diluted with water and possibly mixed with CO
2
only immediately prior to the dispensing. Furthermore, such liquid foodstuff mixtures may be present in form of a cream, for instance of a milk product.
2. Prior Art
Such liquid foodstuff mixtures consist generally of at least two mixture components. In case of beverages one of the mixture components may be the component which determines the flavor, the property of the final product and which is often present as a concentrate, and the other of the mixture components may be water, in certain cases a concentrated sugar solution or a liquid sweetener.
The mentioned flavor imparting concentrate is often a mixture, which consists of several mixture components. The mentioned other of the mixture components, which in several cases can be a mixture itself, is added to the concentrate mixture. The other mixture component may, thus, be at the one hand merely (obviously treated) water, at the other hand for instance a mixture of water and a concentrated sugar solution.
In larger plants for the production of liquid foodstuff mixtures a plurality of different products a produced simultaneously, which are filled into bottles, cans or into barrels.
Plants exist, thereby, in which different liquid foodstuff mixtures are produced, may there be in form of ready to drink beverages to be filled into bottles or cans, or in form of not yet finally diluted syrups which are filled into barrels, which mixtures all include the mixture components which are common to all.
For instance, one of the liquid foodstuff mixtures may include one mixture component which imparts its flavor, or several mixture components, imparting the flavors respectively, and a further mixture component intended for the dilution or for the sweetening, or again several such mixture components, respectively, for instance water, concentrated sugar solution and invert sugar dissolved in water.
Therefore, several mixture components are needed for each liquid foodstuff mixture, which components each necessitate a respective expensive portion of the plant for a storing, for a controlling of the mass flow, etc., such that known plants for the production of different liquid foodstuff mixtures consist actually of a plurality of plants which are merely located under the same roof, which are designed and operate completely independent from each other. This means that plant portions, which treat basically mixture components, e.g. in case of beverages water and sugar solution, which must be present in a plurality of the beverages being prepared must be present twofold or in a plurality of numbers, causing correspondingly high procurement and operating costs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Here, the invention intends to provide a remedy. The invention, such as characterized in the claims solves the object of providing a plant for continuously preparing at least two different liquid foodstuff mixtures, in which only one single plant portion is needed for the mixture components which is common to the several foodstuff mixtures.
A further object is to provide a plant for a continuous preparing of at least two different liquid foodstuff mixtures which each consist of a mixture of several liquid mixture components and have at least mixture component in common, which plant is adapted to be connected to at least two continuously operating bottling apparatuses for these liquid foodstuff mixtures, which is characterized by a first supply station for at least one mixture component allocated to a first liquid foodstuff mixture, with a first outlet line, by at least one further supply station for a further mixture component allocated to a further liquid foodstuff mixture, with at least one further outlet line, by one single basis component supply station for at least one mixture component allocated in common to all liquid foodstuff mixtures, with at least one outlet line for this mixture component, and by an arrangement of step valves, which allow alternatingly a communicating between the at least first outlet line and the at least one outlet line for the common mixture component, or only between the at least one further outlet line and the at least one outlet line for the common mixture component, in order to allow an alternating intermittent flowing of the at least one first and of the at least one further mixture component at a simultaneous continuous flowing of the mixture components which are allocated in common to both liquid foodstuff mixtures.
The advantages gained by the invention are to be seen substantially in that one single plant portion is allocated simultaneously to a plurality of products to be prepared, such that considerable savings on costs of the procurement and of the maintenance of the complete plant can be arrived at. Although the fed flow of the individual liquid mixtures for the different beverages proceeds intermittent, all bottling apparatuses supplied by the plant structured in accordance with the invention can operate continuously.
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Angelo Cadeo and Miteco AG
Shenier & O'Connor
Simone Timothy F.
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