EP1132316A1 - Récipient permettant la distribution de boissons sans apport d'air - Google Patents

Récipient permettant la distribution de boissons sans apport d'air Download PDF

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EP1132316A1
EP1132316A1 EP00105575A EP00105575A EP1132316A1 EP 1132316 A1 EP1132316 A1 EP 1132316A1 EP 00105575 A EP00105575 A EP 00105575A EP 00105575 A EP00105575 A EP 00105575A EP 1132316 A1 EP1132316 A1 EP 1132316A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/24—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
    • B65D81/245—Internal membrane, floating cover or the like isolating the contents from the ambient atmosphere

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  • the invention relates to a beverage container Recording, storing and dispensing a drink in doses, that can be a ready mixed drink. Also from the Invention is concerned with an operating or working method Operate a beverage container to remove contaminants from the ready mixed and dispensed beverages avoid.
  • Beverage containers usually consist of a lower and an upper chamber, the lower chamber the drink saves.
  • the lower lying one that stores the drink Chamber section is assigned an outlet for metered Withdrawal of the stored drink.
  • the second section of the chamber or the drink stored in it can be chilled.
  • Premix dispensers can be found at locations or parking spaces Community catering, e.g. Canteens or restaurants in Companies, hospitals and old people's homes, but also in the System catering, such as fast food restaurants, kiosks or Snack bars, sports studios and in general in the hotel and Restaurant area.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to improve the quality of the dispensed beverage, in particular not to reduce its quality by storing this beverage in the premix dispensing device over a longer period of time.
  • the invention proposes the above To make the volume of the chamber section changeable. This provides a way to keep the drink under Keep air tight, both in the operating hours, as well outside of business hours. It is nevertheless achieved that at there is a change in volume when the beverage is dispensed, while maintaining the air seal, according to the Lowering the water level and without having to influence it the user.
  • the upper volume and the lower volume are in a free flow connection (Claim 3) and can therefore easily counteract her Change volume without being in contact with ambient air come.
  • a membrane (claim 4) protects against one Air access to the filled drink, which membrane on the one side is connected to the ambient air and on on the other hand delimits the first chamber, which in turn is one has free flow connection to the filled drink.
  • the arrangement of the membrane can be rigid at the edges Cover part take place (claim 5).
  • the arrangement can be in both half height, as well as in the upper or lower area of the lid respectively.
  • At least a section of the membrane should be flexible and / or be elastic (claim 6).
  • a beverage dispenser is to be explained schematically with reference to FIG. 1 .
  • the following elements are shown in section, a lower part 1 of a container and an upper part 2 placed on the lower part via a seal 3.
  • Two filling heights h 1 and h 2 are shown in the lower part, each representative of a filling height of the filled drink G, which is represented here two alternatively specified outlets 8,8a can be removed. Either through the bottom wall of the lower container part 1 or through a lateral tap 8a.
  • the upper part 2 which rests on the seal 3 so that Air exclusion is guaranteed is a schematic Lock 3a shown secured in the closed state.
  • the upper part consists of a rigid lower wall section 2a and a rigid upper wall section 2b, which together form the Define the vertical extent of the upper part 2.
  • the upper Wall section is with a horizontal section 2c closed, in which an opening 6a is provided, in the one Seal 6 is releasably used so that it is airtight Locking used and for supplying ambient air and be removed to create a free flow connection can.
  • This element hereinafter referred to as the valve, allows the control of a membrane 4 explained below, which in Upper part 2 on the edge at a circumferential fastening point 4a is arranged airtight.
  • FIGS. 2a, 2b and 1 correspond to three particularly recognizable in FIG. 2b Chamber areas. These chamber areas are the top one Chamber area 11, which leads to ambient air when valve 6 is open Has connection.
  • the second, also arranged in the cover 2 Upper chamber area 10 ends at the upper end of the lower one Chamber area 20, which symbolizes the volume of the beverage. Volumes are assigned according to the chamber areas. For the top chamber area the volume V11, for the one in the lid still provided further upper chamber area 10 that Volume V10 and volume V20 for the drink.
  • the changes in the different volumes go from one Comparison of Figures 2a and 2b.
  • the two Volumes V10.V11 are assigned to the lid and the lower one Volume V20 the fuselage 1 of the entire container, the volumes should in their vertical order with first, second and third Volume.
  • the first volume is in FIG. 2a practically zero
  • the second volume V10 has its maximum value
  • the third volume V20 corresponds to the filled one Beverage volume.
  • the valve When the valve is open it lowers by reducing the Fill level ⁇ h from the membrane 4, by reducing the Membrane height ⁇ b.
  • the volume V11 and changes accordingly becomes larger up to the maximum volume of FIG. 2b.
  • the Volume V10 changes in opposite directions and decreases, corresponding to the increase in volume V11 if it is assumed that the filling volume V20 remains the same at Keeping a parting plane on the original Level hl. If you take a decrease in volume V20 according to the remaining beverage, so it stays Volume V10 unchanged, and the volumes V11 change and V20 in opposite directions.
  • the first volume of the top Chamber section is therefore according to the metered delivery of Beverage changeable via the outlet. Alternatively, the Change the first or second volume V11, V10 dem Lowering of the water level in the second chamber section 20.
  • the volume V11 acts as a pressure compensation volume, which for the complete emptying of the container is greater than or equal to that Volume V20 of the filled beverage is.
  • the bilateral deflection of the membrane 4 based on one Horizontal plane along the peripheral edge attachment 4a half of the volume deflected in the upper end position Use membrane to double the volume available place, at least according to the filled Beverage volume.
  • the lock 3a can be opened and the lid 2 is removed from the body 1.
  • a new drink can be filled up to the filling level h 1 , and before the lid 2 is replaced, the membrane 4 is returned to its upper starting position and the valve 6 is initially closed. If the valve 6 is closed, with a practically negligible volume V11, the cover 2 can be handled freely without the risk that the membrane will fall out of its upper end position too soon. Only when the cover 2 is placed on the seals 3, in particular also when the latch 3a is closed, can the valve 6 be removed from the valve seat 6a, the membrane then still remaining in its practically unchanged upper end position. It now (first) follows the level of the metered beverage.
  • FIG. 3 A not completely rigid design of the cover is shown in Figure 3 .
  • the deformed locations of the cover are the walls here, with the upper end 2c of the cover, which is cup-shaped or square in the original, upper state, remaining essentially horizontal.
  • the filling level of the beverage has decreased in accordance with the difference dimension ⁇ d, which is not shown separately in FIG. 3.
  • the two volumes V10a and V10b are drawn in the upper and lower end positions of the horizontal section of the cover 2 * which can be deformed in the wall.
  • the difference volume corresponds to the difference measure ⁇ d times the base area of the cover, at least essentially.
  • the valve 6 shown is for the embodiment of FIG. 3 not absolutely necessary, but it can be used for repatriation of the lid from its elastically compressed state is helpful to avoid negative pressure. Throughout the entire Beverage dispensing valve 6 remains closed in order to Ambient air access to the first (upper) chamber V10 prevent and the surface of the drink before (new) preserve harmful influences.
  • FIG. 3 An embodiment of an elastically deformable cover, which is designed in accordance with FIG. 3 but is reduced in container height, is illustrated in FIG .
  • the horizontal section 2c of the lid which is elastically deformable in the wall regions 2w, lies essentially at the filling level of the beverage in the lower chamber section 20 before the dispensing begins. If the water level drops, the horizontal surface of the cover 2 * follows, elongating the wall sections 2w.
  • These can either be elastic, or they can be meandering or accordion-like in order to allow them to yield and practically correspond to the inner shape of the second chamber 20 at the end of the removal process.
  • the elastic shaping is inverted compared to FIG. 3, the lid is not compressed, but decompressed, based on the deformable section. Also in FIG. 4, a valve is not absolutely necessary, but may be helpful for returning the cover 2 * to its initial position.
  • Figure 5 illustrates a bag-shaped membrane 4, which is shown both in the upper starting position, when the drink is full in the chamber volume 20, and - in dashed lines - in the lower end position 4 'when the drink is dispensed and the pressure compensation in the lower chamber volume by giving in of the bag in the direction of the water level.
  • an arrangement of the edge 4a of the bag 4 at the lower edge, near the seal 3, is provided.
  • the volume of the bag is therefore twice as large, based on the level at the height of the seal.
  • the valve which is also shown, is used - as in FIG. 2b - to return the bag from its lower end position to its upper starting position.
  • the valve is only opened before the start of beverage dispensing and allows new ambient air to be fed into the uppermost chamber volume V11.
  • the valve helps to temporarily fix the larger bag 4 in the upper starting position until it is placed on the seal.
  • the lid can be a pot or hood-shaped top have an additional plate-shaped connecting part that is arranged at the height of the seal 3 and in Flow connection with the lower chamber volume 20 is.
  • the horizontal connecting plate 2d can be used together with the Seal 3 and the lid upper part 2a, 2b as a common Attachment part to be formed.
  • the lid is there to compensate for the compressed air to create, he does not take a drink himself, but is in the Volume adapted to the chamber volume of the beverage.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a further design of the rigid lid part 2, with the fuselage 1 unchanged.
  • a similarly flexibly designed bag 4 is shown in the upper rest position and in the lower deflected position 4 ′, the lower position being dashed.
  • the deflected position 4 ' includes the filling height h 2 of the beverage dispensed through the outlet 8 in the second chamber volume 20.
  • the edge fastening 4a of the bag-shaped container 4 is again circumferential, but here it is provided at the upper end of the rigid lid 2, essentially opposite to the previous location of FIG. 5, where the membrane is formed near the seal 3 on the cover 2 or directly on the seal 3 or even in one piece with the seal 3.
  • the volumes are uncoated when filled (V11) and in emptied condition deleted (V11 ') clarified.
  • the valve 6 is to be opened when removing the drink, so that the originally small volume V11 to a larger volume V11 ' can develop, with a corresponding reduction of initially larger volume V10, with an assumed constant Volume V20. If the volume V20 is as appropriate Increasing the volume V11 assuming a reduction, so remains the intermediate volume V10 constant.
  • the membrane 4 can be flexible with itself overlapping sections in the compressed state as well be formed as elastic without such overlapping Sections.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 Both realizations of FIGS. 5 and 6 can be modified such that the bag lies at the height of the beverage surface before the start of the beverage dispensing and closely follows it during the dispensed dispensing.
  • an elongation prepared by folding is possible as well as an enlargement made possible by elasticity.
  • the intermediate wall 2d of the cover 2 would be omitted to enable the membrane 4 to be adjusted, the volume V10 being very small, whereas the volume V11 would increase as the filling height h 1 decreased. There would then be no need to design the cover 2 hood-shaped. It could have a reduced overall height.
  • FIG. 7 A balloon-like design of the membrane 4 is illustrated in FIG. 7 .
  • the elastic bag arranged in the upper horizontal section 2c fills up in volume, the upper chamber 11 being an inner chamber with an initial volume Vlla and a final volume Vllb.
  • the volume V10 of the further upper chamber 10 what has been said above applies, either this volume decreases with a constant volume V20, or it remains the same if the volume V20 also changes in accordance with the decrease in the filling height h 1 .
  • the balloon-like design of the membrane 4 can be prepared by elasticity as well as by elongation or volume expansion made possible by folds.
  • a balloon with reduced volume is shown in the starting position 4 in such a way that its edge section 4b is arranged on an opening 6a of a horizontal section 2c of the cover.
  • the valve is open and a drop in the water level h 1 allows the volume Vlla to expand to the volume Vllb in the state 4 ′ of the membrane 4 shown in broken lines.
  • the arrangement 4b as an inlet area can also be off-center respectively.
  • the cover 2 is inflexible.
EP00105575A 2000-03-16 2000-03-16 Récipient permettant la distribution de boissons sans apport d'air Expired - Lifetime EP1132316B1 (fr)

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AT00105575T ATE206096T1 (de) 2000-03-16 2000-03-16 Getränkebehälter für eine getränkeentnahme unter luftabschluss
PT00105575T PT1132316E (pt) 2000-03-16 2000-03-16 Recipiente para uma distribuicao de bebidas sob exclusao do ar
DK00105575T DK1132316T3 (da) 2000-03-16 2000-03-16 Drikkevarebeholder til udlevering af drikkevarer under luftfrie forhold
EP00105575A EP1132316B1 (fr) 2000-03-16 2000-03-16 Récipient permettant la distribution de boissons sans apport d'air
DE50000018T DE50000018D1 (de) 2000-03-16 2000-03-16 Getränkebehälter für eine Getränkeentnahme unter Luftabschluss
ES00105575T ES2164631T3 (es) 2000-03-16 2000-03-16 Recipiente para bebidas, para la extraccion de una parte de la bebida sin que penetre aire.
DE10028493A DE10028493A1 (de) 2000-03-16 2000-06-08 Getränkebehälter für eine Getränkeentnahme unter Luftabschluß

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