EA006576B1 - Apparatus for after-fermentation, and/or storage, and/or transportation, and/or beer dispensing - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to food industry.To provide operating procedure an apparatus for after-fermentation, and/or storage, and/or transportation, and/or beer dispensing is provided with a cooling unit adapted for cooling liquid entering into a cooling jacket, wherein the cooling unit is housed inside a protective casing and rigidly fixed to it.

Description

The invention relates to the food industry, in relation to the apparatus for the fermentation of low-power brewing devices and can be used in the organization of production, storage, delivery and bottling of unfiltered beer.

A fermentation apparatus is known, which contains an isothermal vessel with a cooling jacket used in a device for making beer (see USSR Patent No. 1817791, class С12С 13/00 dated March 12, 1992).

However, the design of the known device is of a stationary type, which hinders the possibility of its use for prompt delivery of unfiltered beer to the places of its bottling and / or sale, and requires additional packaging and packaging operations.

The technical essence of the closest to the proposed is the device for fermentation of beer, containing an isothermal vessel with a cooling jacket and a casing, made with the possibility of operative docking, disconnection and transportation from the finished beer to the place of bottling and / or to the place of its implementation or with the stage of fermentation beer to another place of development with the possibility of bottling and / or sale (see patent No. 2171834 from 09.11.2000, Cl. C12C 13/00).

However, the known device does not provide temperature process conditions during fermentation and / or transportation, storage and / or bottling at bottling sites and / or sales in which there is no stationary cooling system, besides, there is no cooling of the delivery area (beer line) of beer from the device to tap tap.

The technical result is the provision of technological temperature regime during fermentation and / or transportation and / or storage and / or bottling at bottling sites and / or sales, as well as ensuring technological temperature regime of the beer delivery area from the apparatus to the bottling tap.

This is achieved by the fact that the device for fermentation and / or storage, and / or transportation and / or bottling of beer, containing a vessel with a cooling jacket, covered with thermal insulation and located inside the protective casing, according to the technical solution, is equipped with a cooling unit adapted to provide liquid cooling. entering the cooling jacket, where the cooling unit is installed inside the protective casing or the cooling unit is located outside the protective casing and is rigidly connected with it, besides the cooling unit contains a compressor a condensing unit, the evaporator of which is located in a thermally insulated tank, through which the cooled liquid flows through a closed circuit through a cooling jacket, and is also equipped with beer dispensing communications and functional valves and connectors for operative docking and uncoupling with them, communicated by appropriate pipelines with the internal cavity of the vessel and the cooling unit, and the communications for bottling beer are equipped with a cooling circuit located along their length and connected through pump with a cooling unit, with the above communications and circuit covered by a common insulating casing.

The essence of the technical solution lies in the fact that the implementation of the proposed device as described above allows you to provide the necessary temperature process conditions during processing, and during transportation, and during storage and / or bottling at the place of storage and / or implementation in which there are no cooling systems.

Comparison of the proposed device with the well-known suggests that the criterion of "novelty" is met, and the lack of distinctive features in the analogs indicates that the criterion of "inventive step" is met. Preliminary tests suggest the possibility of widespread industrial use. FIG. 1 shows the design of the proposed device. The device for fermentation and / or storage and / or transportation and / or bottling of beer contains a vessel 1 with a cooling jacket 2, covered with thermal insulation 3 and located inside the protective casing 4. The device is equipped with a cooling unit adapted to cool the liquid entering cooling jacket 2 and containing condensing unit 5, the evaporator 6 of which is located in a thermally insulated tank 7 through which cooled fluid flows through a closed loop through jacket 2 by pump 8 cooling

The cooling unit can be installed inside the protective casing 4 or can be installed outside the protective casing 4 and is rigidly connected with it.

The device is equipped with utilities 9 for bottling beer and functional valves 10-1 ... 10-4 and connectors 11-1 ... 11-4 for operative connection and disconnection with them, communicated by the corresponding pipelines 12-1 ... 12-4 with the internal cavity of the vessel 1 and the cooling unit.

The communications 9 for bottling beer (their delivery-brewing section) are equipped with a cooling circuit 13 located along their length and connected to the cooling unit 7 via the pump 8. The above communications 9 and the circuit 13 are covered by a common thermal insulation casing 14.

The vessel 1 has a neck 15 with a lid on which a pressure gauge 16 is installed, communicated with the upper part of the internal cavity of the vessel 1, and there is also an opening for the 12-4 pressurization line to maintain internal pressure in the vessel 1.

At the other end of the pipeline 12-4 there is a functional valve 10-4 with a connector 11-4 for operative docking, for example, with a gas cylinder for pressurization.

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In the lower part of the vessel 1 there is an opening 17 under the pipeline 12-1 for filling (filling) or emptying (draining) the product (young or ready-made beer) through the functional valve 10-1 and connector 11-1. To the connector 11-1 in the places of bottling and / or sales, connect the communications 9 for bottling beer, which have a tap 18 on the issue of beer

In addition, when connecting the beers 9, the cooling circuit 13 is connected using connectors 11-2 and 11-3, which are connected to thermally insulated valves 10-2 and 10-3 and pipelines 12-2 and 12-3, respectively. capacity 7 and through the pump 8 is provided from it the flow of coolant in the jacket 2 cooling and circuit 13.

The cooling circuit of the jacket 2 and the circuit 13 of the cooling of the communications 9 for dispensing beer are pre-filled with liquid through the opening of the pipeline uniting the contours, with the plug 19 removed at its end.

Thus, the claimed apparatus is made with the possibility of operative docking, uncoupling and transportation with ready unfiltered beer to the place of bottling and / or to the place of its realization or being in the stage of fermentation with beer to another place of fermentation with the possibility of its filling and / or realization with the guarantee of its preservation taste qualities.

In addition, it becomes possible to transport the device over long distances or to store for a relatively long time without using additional external sources of cooling.

Before filling the apparatus with young beer for fermentation, all food cavities must be disinfected and thoroughly rinsed.

After filling, for example, through the opening 17, the apparatus is hermetically sealed (grooved) and the young beer that has passed the main fermentation process is cooled to a temperature of 0 ... + 2 ° C. A gas cylinder with carbon dioxide and a reducer (in Fig. 1 is absent) is docked to the valve 10-4 of the boost and gas release through the connector 11-4.

The process of fermentation takes place with excess pressure in vessel 1, which is provided with carbon dioxide in the process of its release during fermentation of beer or, if necessary, through pipeline 12-4 pressurization from a third-party source - a balloon and at a beer temperature of 0 ... + 2 ° С , which is supported by cooled circulating fluid, for example, water from the thermally insulated tank 7 of the cooling unit due to the operation of the switched on pump 8, which pumps it through the contour of the cooling jacket 2.

The liquid is cooled by the evaporator 6, for example freon, embedded in a thermally insulated container 7, and the supply of freon and heat removal is produced by a condensing unit 5.

At this temperature, the beer matures for several weeks until fully prepared, saturated with soluble carbon dioxide under a certain pressure, which is controlled by a pressure gauge 16.

After the beer has matured, the device with the finished product can be stored or transported to the place of bottling and / or sale.

During long periods of transportation, the cooling of beer in the device can continue by turning on the pump 8 and the condensing unit 5 of the cooling unit, for example, from a vehicle.

When storing beer or when it is sold and / or bottled, the device is connected to a local power source to ensure the operation of the cooling unit. In addition, connect the communication 9 filling and boost cylinder.

After the connectors 11-1 ... 11-4 are docked, the valves 10-1 ... 10-4 are opened, feeding beer through communications 9 for bottling beer 18 at the tap and cooling the contours with circulating fluid from the cooling unit. When dispensing beer, a constant pressure is maintained in vessel 1 by means of pressurizing it through pipeline 12-4. The cooling unit provides cooling of the beer in the vessel 1 for the entire time of its implementation, even with the valve 18 closed.

Thus, in the proposed device is achieved technical result.

Claims (4)

CLAIM 1. Apparatus for fermentation, and / or storage, and / or transportation, and / or bottling of beer, containing a vessel with a cooling jacket, covered with thermal insulation and located inside a protective casing, characterized in that it is equipped with a cooling unit, configured to provide cooling fluid entering the cooling jacket, and the cooling unit is installed inside the protective casing or is located outside the protective casing and is rigidly connected with it. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the cooling unit contains a compressor-condensing unit, the evaporator of which is located in a thermally insulated tank, through which the cooled liquid flows through the closed loop through the cooling jacket. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1 and / or 2, characterized in that it is equipped with utilities for dispensing beer and functional valves and connectors for operative docking and uncoupling with them, communicated by appropriate piping with the internal cavity of the vessel and the cooling unit. - 2 006576 4. The apparatus according to claim 3, characterized in that the communications for bottling beer are equipped with a cooling circuit located along their length and connected to the cooling unit through a pump, and the above communications and circuit are covered by a common thermal insulation casing.