RU45997U1 - APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION AND / OR STORAGE AND / OR TRANSPORTATION AND / OR BEER BOTTLE - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to the field of food industry. To ensure the technological temperature regime, the after-fermentation apparatus and / or storage and / or transportation and / or bottling of beer is equipped with a cooling unit configured to provide cooling of the liquid entering the cooling jacket.

Description

The utility model relates to the food industry, in relation to the after-brewing apparatus of low-power brewing devices, and can be used to organize the production, storage, delivery and bottling of unfiltered beer.

A beer brewing apparatus is known comprising an isothermal vessel with a cooling jacket and with a casing, capable of operatively docking, undocking and transporting finished beer to the bottling place and / or to the place of its sale or to beer being in the stage of fermentation to another fermentation place with the possibility of its bottling and / or implementation (see patent for IZ No. 2171834 from 09.11.2000, class C 12 C 13/00).

However, the known device does not provide temperature technological regime during fermentation and / or transportation, and / or storage, and / or bottling in places of bottling and / or sale in which there is no stationary cooling system, in addition, cooling of the delivery area (beer pipeline) of beer from the apparatus to the tap dispensing.

The technical result is the provision of a technological temperature regime during fermentation and / or transportation, and / or storage, and / or bottling in places of bottling and / or sale, as well as ensuring the technological temperature regime of the beer delivery site from the apparatus to the bottling tap.

This is achieved by the fact that the apparatus for fermentation and / or storage and / or transportation and / or bottling of beer, containing a vessel with a cooling jacket, coated with thermal insulation and located inside the protective casing, according to the technical solution, is equipped with a cooling unit configured to provide cooling of the liquid,

entering the cooling jacket and 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, in addition, the cooling unit contains a condensing unit, the evaporator of which is located in a thermally insulated container through which the cooled liquid flows through the pump closed loop through the cooling jacket, and is also equipped with communications for bottling and functional valves and connectors for operational docking and undocking with them communicated by the corresponding 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 the pump to the cooling unit, and the above communications and the circuit are covered by a common heat-insulating casing.

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

Comparison of the proposed device with a known one allows us to confirm the compliance with the criterion of "novelty." Preliminary tests suggest the possibility of wide industrial use.

Figure 1 shows the design of the proposed device.

The apparatus 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, configured to provide cooling of the liquid entering the jacket 2 cooling and containing condensing unit 5, evaporator 6

which is located in a thermally insulated container 7, through which the pump 8 provides the flow of the cooled fluid in a closed loop through the cooling jacket 2.

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 communications 9 for beer dispensing and functional valves 10-1 ... 10-4 and connectors 11-1 ... 11-4 for operational connection and undocking with them, communicated by the corresponding pipelines 12-1 ... 12-4 with the inner cavity of the vessel 1 and the cooling unit.

Communications 9 for beer dispensing (their delivery site is a beer pipeline) are equipped with a cooling circuit 13 located along their length and connected through a pump 8 to the cooling unit 7. The above communications 9 and circuit 13 are covered by a common heat-insulating casing 14.

The vessel 1 has a neck 15 with a lid, on which a pressure gauge 16 is installed, which is in communication with the upper part of the inner cavity of the vessel 1, and there is also an opening for the boost pipe 12-4 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 operational docking, for example, with a gas cylinder for pressurization.

In the lower part of the vessel 1 there is an opening 17 under the pipe 12-1 for filling (filling) or emptying (draining) the product (young or finished beer) through the functional valve 10-1 and connector 11-1. Communications 9 for dispensing beer having a tap 18 for dispensing beer are connected to connector 11-1 at the bottling and / or sales points.

In addition, when connecting communications 9 for beer dispensing, a cooling circuit 13 is connected using connectors 11-2 and 11-3, which through valves 10-2 and 10-3 and pipelines 12-2 and 12-3,

accordingly, they are connected with a thermally insulated tank 7 and, through the pump 8, coolant flows from it into the cooling jacket 2 and circuit 13.

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

Thus, the inventive apparatus is made with the possibility of operational docking, undocking and transportation with ready unfiltered beer to the place of bottling and / or to the place of its sale or being in the stage of brewing beer to another place of fermentation with the possibility of bottling and / or sale with a guarantee of preservation taste qualities.

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

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

After filling, for example, through the hole 17, the apparatus is hermetically sealed (tongued) and the young beer, which has undergone the main fermentation process, is cooled to a temperature of 0 ... + 2 ° С. To the valve 10-4 boost and gas discharge through the connector 11-4 docked gas cylinder with carbon dioxide and gearbox (figure 1 is missing).

The process of fermentation takes place at an excess pressure in the vessel 1, which is provided with carbon dioxide in the process of its liberation during beer fermentation or, if necessary, through a 12-4 line of pressurization from an external source-cylinder and at a beer temperature of 0 ... + 2 ° С , which is supported by a cooled circulating fluid, for example, water from a thermally insulated container 7 nodes

cooling due to the operation of the switched on pump 8, pumping it through the circuit of the cooling jacket 2.

The liquid is cooled by the evaporator 6, for example, freon, integrated in a thermally insulated container 7, and the supply of freon and heat are produced by the compressor-condenser unit 5.

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

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

For 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 during its sale and / or bottling, the device is connected to a local power source to ensure the operation of the cooling unit. In addition, they connect communications 9 bottling and boost cylinder.

After connecting the connectors 11-1 ... 11-4, the valves 10-1 ... 10-4 are opened, supplying beer through communications 9 for dispensing to the tap 18 for dispensing beer and cooling the circuits with circulating fluid from the cooling unit. When dispensing beer, a constant pressure is maintained in the vessel 1 due to its pressurization through the pipeline 12-4. The cooling unit provides cooling of the beer in the vessel 1 for the entire time of its implementation, even when the valve 18 is closed.

Thus, in the proposed device is achieved the technical result.

Claims (6)

1. Apparatus for fermentation, and / or storage, and / or transportation, and / or bottling of beer, containing a vessel with a cooling jacket, coated with thermal insulation and located inside the protective casing, characterized in that it is equipped with a cooling unit configured to provide cooling fluid entering the cooling jacket. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the cooling unit is installed inside the protective casing. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the cooling unit is located outside the protective casing and is rigidly connected with it. 4. The apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the cooling unit comprises a condensing unit, the evaporator of which is located in a thermally insulated container, through which the cooled liquid flows through a closed loop through the cooling jacket. 5. The apparatus according to claim 1 or 4, characterized in that it is equipped with communications for dispensing beer and functional valves and connectors for operative docking and undocking with them, communicated by corresponding pipelines with the internal cavity of the vessel and the cooling unit. 6. The apparatus according to claim 5, characterized in that the communications for bottling beer are equipped with a cooling circuit located along their length and connected through a pump to the cooling unit, and the above communications and circuit are covered by a common heat-insulating casing.