DE8013968U1 - TAP FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BEVERAGES BY MIXING BEVERAGE EXTRACTS WITH WATER - Google Patents

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VON KREISLER- · 'S-CHÖNW-ÄLD ^' iiSHOLP FUES FROM KREISLER KELLER SELTING WERNER

PATENT LAWYERS

Dr, -Ing. by Kreisler 11973

Dr, -Ing. K. Schönwald, Cologne

Dr.-Ing. K. W. Eishold, Bad Soden

Dr. J. F. Fues, Cologne

Dipl.-Chem. Alek von Kreisler, Cologne

Dipl.-Chem. Carola Keller, Cologne

Dipl.-Ing. G. Selting, Cologne

Dr. H.-K. Werner, Cologne

May 22, 1980 Sch / Sd

DEICHMANNHAUS AT THE MAIN RAILWAY STATION

D-5000 COLOGNE 1

The Coca-Cola Company, 310 North Avenue, N.W., Atlanta / Georgia 30313 (V.St.A.)

Tap for making beverages by mixing beverage extracts with water

The invention relates to a tap for making beverages by mixing beverage extracts, e.g. Fruit syrup, with water.

Taps of the type mentioned are known. They generally show a separate feed for the beverage extract and water to an outlet part of the tap housing. The beverage extract and the water come together in the lower part of the outlet part of the tap housing. The for However, the available way for the contact of beverage extract with water is not sufficient for a finished product Mixture comes out of the tap. This is especially true when the line carrying the beverage extract leads relatively far into the tap housing. Often comes

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It is the case that the viscous beverage extract mixes with the water only outside the tap, i.e. in the glass or the like arranged underneath, but this is not desirable.

The object of the invention is to design the tap of the type mentioned at the beginning so that it is still inside the tap a thorough mixing of the supplied beverage extract with the water can take place with certainty, so that immediately from the finished drink can already run out of the tap. The tap of the type mentioned at the beginning is characterized by that a disk is arranged at a distance from the outlet ends of the feeds for water and the beverage extract, and that this disc extends over the outlet ends of both feeders.

Such a design of the tap can be achieved that a mixing of beverage extract with water, especially of viscous beverage extract, can be carried out and completed with certainty within the tap. The beverage extract flowing onto the disk is carbonized or quieter, for example, from that supplied from the water channels Detected water and the like by turbulence. mixed. The disk causes a substantial spatial division of the inflowing stream of beverage extract. The mixing takes place on an annular zone, as far as the clear diameter the tap at this point allows this. This means that both media are intimately mixed. On the further outlet path within the tap, both media have another opportunity to mix, so that the Beverage extract and the water can escape from the tap as a ready-made drink.

According to a further feature of the invention, the disc,

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which serves as a baffle plate, so arranged and designed,;,

Ά that they all around in an annular recess in the run-out '$ partly protrudes of the tap housing. This creates the further possibility that the two can be put together on the disc mentreffenden media in the annular recess of the PTO 'tap body i again for mutual turbulence and mixing fe reach, wherein the components of the already | largely completed mixture are pressed together in the subsequent outlet channel of smaller diameter,
so that the viscous beverage extract is still within the
Tap is dissolved.

The feed for the water is advantageously directed obliquely outwards onto the edge zone of the pane. This will
ensured that the viscous beverage extract through the
Jets of water are thrown from the pane.

Structurally, one can proceed in such a way that the disc is Stand holder, e.g. tenon or the like, hanging from the center piece.; the upper end plate of the tap housing is attached. ;,.

The invention will be explained below with reference to th embodiment of a f in the drawing dargestell-. f

The single figure shows a section through the tap GE fp Measured the invention in elevation, schematically. S.

The tap 1 has a tap housing 2, to which a line 3 for supplying beverage extract, for example fruit syrup
Or the like., And a line 4 leads through which a prepared
Water is supplied. Advantageously surrounds the line 4 for
carbonized water the feed line 3 for the beverage extract · At a distance from the outlet ends 3a and 4a of the
Lines 3 and 4, a disc 5 is provided, which

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extends over the ends of the two lines 3 and 4. It serves as a baffle plate for both the line 3 supplied beverage extract as well as for the water passed through line 4. The beverage extract flowing onto the disk 5 is rinsed off by the prepared, carbonized or still water flowing out of the 'water channels 4b.

The disk 5 is of such a size that it fits all around into an annular recess 6 of the outlet part 7 of the housing 2 protrudes. In this ring-shaped recess 6, beverage extract and water can mix intensively. The flow of the liquid is deflected by almost 180, whereby the mixing process is significantly supported. Then the mixture reaches the outlet opening 8 of the Tap, which has a smaller diameter than the disc 5. The components of the mixture are in the outlet channel pressed together so that the mixture can emerge from the tap 1 as a finished drink.

The supply of the water channels 4b in the upper end plate 9 of the housing 2 is inclined outwards onto the edge zone the disk 5 directed, which supports the removal of the beverage extract from the disk 5 radially outward.

The disc 5 can be suspended from the center piece of the upper end plate by means of spacers 10, e.g. 9 of the tap housing should be attached.

Claims (4)

111 · Claims 1. Tap for making beverages by mixing of beverage extract, e.g. fruit syrup or the like., With water, each with a separate feed for the beverage extract and water to an outlet part of the tap housing, characterized in that at a distance from the A disc (5) is arranged at the outlet ends (3a, 4a) of the feed (3, 4) for beverage extract and water, and that this disc (5) extends over the outlet ends (3a, 4a) of both feeds (3, 4). 2. Tap according to claim 1, characterized in that the disc (5) all around in an annular recess (6) of the tap housing (2) protrudes. 3. Tap according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the supply channels (4b) for water in the upper End plate (9) are directed obliquely outwards on the edge zone of the disc (5). 4. Tap according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that that the disc (5) is suspended from the center piece of the upper end plate (9) of the tap housing (2) is attached.