US3618905A - Machine for the production of aerated beverages - Google Patents

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US3618905A
US3618905A US11165A US3618905DA US3618905A US 3618905 A US3618905 A US 3618905A US 11165 A US11165 A US 11165A US 3618905D A US3618905D A US 3618905DA US 3618905 A US3618905 A US 3618905A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D1/00—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught
    • B67D1/0015—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught the beverage being prepared by mixing at least two liquid components
    • B67D1/0021—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught the beverage being prepared by mixing at least two liquid components the components being mixed at the time of dispensing, i.e. post-mix dispensers
    • B67D1/0022—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught the beverage being prepared by mixing at least two liquid components the components being mixed at the time of dispensing, i.e. post-mix dispensers the apparatus comprising means for automatically controlling the amount to be dispensed
    • B67D1/0034—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught the beverage being prepared by mixing at least two liquid components the components being mixed at the time of dispensing, i.e. post-mix dispensers the apparatus comprising means for automatically controlling the amount to be dispensed for controlling the amount of each component
    • B67D1/0035—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught the beverage being prepared by mixing at least two liquid components the components being mixed at the time of dispensing, i.e. post-mix dispensers the apparatus comprising means for automatically controlling the amount to be dispensed for controlling the amount of each component the controls being based on the same metering technics
    • B67D1/0036—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught the beverage being prepared by mixing at least two liquid components the components being mixed at the time of dispensing, i.e. post-mix dispensers the apparatus comprising means for automatically controlling the amount to be dispensed for controlling the amount of each component the controls being based on the same metering technics based on the timed opening of valves
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D1/00—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught
    • B67D1/04—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D1/00—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught
    • B67D1/04—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers
    • B67D1/0406—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers with means for carbonating the beverage, or for maintaining its carbonation
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S261/00—Gas and liquid contact apparatus
    • Y10S261/07—Carbonators

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  • a machine for the instantaneous automatic preparation of carbonated beverages is disclosed in which the sensing member responsive to the variations of level in the tank containing the carbon-dioxide saturated water forming the base of the drink to be prepared is a pressure-stat responsive to the pressure obtaining in the carbonated water tank.
  • the advantage is that the only variable magnitude sensed by the pressure-stat is the level of water in the tank, the pressure being a direct function of said level by virtue of a well known physical law. Switching and timing means are also provided in order to warrant for an appropriate and orderly sequence of I the operations, as automatically performed by the machine, inherent in the preparation of an instant" carbonated beverage.
  • means are provided to dispense a flavoring substance (such as lemon essence in the case ofa lemonade and so forth) at the proper instant oftime and in the appropriate amount.
  • a flavoring substance such as lemon essence in the case ofa lemonade and so forth
  • the amount of carbonated beverage dispensed for each drink dosage is constant, and the constancy of the carbonation (i.e. amount ofcarbon dioxide contained in a volume unit ofwater) is also ensured.
  • This invention relates to a machine for the preparation of aerated beverages, of the kind which provides for the dispensing of a certain amount of aerated water (soda water) and the admixture therewith of a determined amount of a flavoringsubstance ejected from a prefonned container (or capsule). More particularly, the kind of machine to which the present invention is directed comprises a soda water tank maintained at a constant temperature and equipped with a duct for feeding a collecting vessel, with a duct for gas filling (carbon dioxide) and with a duct for water filling.
  • the dispensing duct comprises a'first cutoff member, more particularly a magnetic valve which can be opened by actuating a control member, such opening stage being usually for a preselected time so as to ensure constancy to the dispensed dosages of soda water,
  • the filling conduit for the gas being made of a feeding capillarytubing with the gas held at a constant pressure and is such as to permit the fiow of gas only in the direction of the soda water tank and not vice versa;
  • the filling conduit for water lastly, comprises a second cutoff member (more particularly a magnetic valve) whose opening is servoed to the closure of the first cutofi member aforesaid in the same way as the opening of the latter is servoed to the closure of the other one.
  • This mutual dependency between the two cutoff members is intended to prevent that dispensing may be started when a filling has not yet been completed and, conversely, to prevent that a water filling may be initiated when dispensing is not yet over, these facts being such as to prevent the sequentially dispensed dosages may be constant in time, whereas its closure is controlled, preferably, by means responsive to the water level in the tank. Said means, entering action as the level goes above a preselected level, attempt to keep the level of soda water as constant as practicable at the beginning of each dispensing so as tokeep substantially unaltered, between consecutive dispensing operations, the rate of flow of soda water through the dispensing duct and thus also keeping the dosage of soda water as dispensed each time, constant.
  • the machine finally comprises a housing compartment for a container of a flavoring substance, from'which the substance is ejected to be admixed to the soda water.
  • the dosage of carbonated water may be rendered constant
  • This thrust is a function of the level in the tank, so that, in summation, the problem becomes that of making constant, as far as practicable, the level of the carbonated water at the start of each dispensing operation.
  • This invention instead, achieves the purpose of making constant the amounts sequentially dispensed by causing the stoppage of water filling to be caused by a pressure-stat responsive to the pressure obtaining in the soda water tank.
  • a pressure-stat responsive to the pressure obtaining in the soda water tank.
  • the most absolute constancy is ensured for the thrust imparted to the soda water during dispensing, and consequently the most absolute constancy of the rate of fiow through the dispensing duct, and, moreover, since the dispensing time has been preset, the most absolute constancy of the individually dispensed unit dosages is ensured.
  • the dispensing time be modified.
  • This invention furthermore, introduces another novelty in connection with the means which permit the water filling in the tank.
  • the filling water was impelled heretofore into the tank by a pump, whereas, according to the invention, the thrust is exploited, which the water held in a tank receives from a gas having a pressure higher than that obtaining the soda water tank.
  • This procedure is much simpler and permits, more particularly, that considerable cos reduction may be achieved.
  • P10. 1 is a diagrammatical showing of the subject machine.
  • FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the electric circuitry of the machine.
  • FIG. 3 is a timing diagram which helps in understanding the operability of the circuitry of FIG. 2, and thus of the machine shown in XFlG. 1. g I
  • the machine shown inFlG. 1 comprises a tank 1 of carbonated water immersed in a refrigerated tub 2 which contains water kept ept at a constant temperature (eg zero centigrade).
  • the tank 1 has a dispensing duct 3, through which the carbonated water is impelled into a collecting vessel 4 by now clear which is the reason which has led to the above mentioned connection between the cutoff member contained in the water-filling duct and level-responsive members which cause the closure of the cutoff member as the level of the carbonated water in the tank reaches a preselected value or tends to go beyond it.
  • Such level-responsive members have been variously embodied, for example by leverages which feel the weight variations of the carbonated water tank, or by two probes connected to a low-voltage circuitry so as deliver, as they are both contacted by the water, a signal which is amplified and applied to a water filling control relay. While the first method has been the pressure differential obtaining between the interior of the tank 1 and the surrounding atmosphere, of course whenever the normally closed magnetic valve 5, is opened.
  • the filling with gas and water is regulated, instead, by a magnetic valve 6 having two inputs and a common output and which establishes, in alternation, the communication, with the interior of the tank 1, of a duct 7 for CO filling, or a conduit 19 for water filling, the first communication being established when the valve is deenergized, the second when it is energized.
  • the CO, filling conduit is a capillary tube to which a bottle 8 supplies CO: under a constant pressure P, through a reducing valve 9.
  • the water fillingconduit conversely, comprises a coil 10 immersed in the refrigerated tub 2 and fed with the water contained in a vessel 11 due to the thrust imparted by the gas fed under a constant pressure P by the bottle 8 through a reducing valve 12 adapted to bring about a pressure drop lower than that caused by the reducing valve 9 (the reason for this latter detail will become apparent hereinafter).
  • Another reducing valve 13 conversely, effects the feeding with C0 under a constant pressure P, (more particularly, lower than that at the outlet of the reducing valves 9 and 12) of a duct 14 passing through a normally closed magnetic valve 15 and terminated in a housing 16 for a capsule 17 of a flavoring substance, the outlet of the space 16 being arranged immediately above the collecting vessel 4.
  • the machine is equipped with a pressure-stat 18 adapted to sense the pressure obtaining between the level of the carbonated water and the top wall of the tank 1.
  • the function of the pressure-stat which is calibrated so as to be tripped at a minimum pressure P lower than the pressure at the outlet of the reducing valve, and at a maximum pressure P higher than the pressure at the outlet of the reducing valve 9, but lower than the pressure at the outlet of the reducing valve 12, will become apparent on studying the control circuit for the magnetic valves 5, 6 and 15, said control circuit being shown diagrammatically in FIG. 2.
  • the control circuit of FIG. 2 is essentially based on a timer 20 equipped with a motor 21, whose rotation causes, through an appropriate cam-pack not shown in the drawing, the occurrence of a preselected sequence of actions by the five switches 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26, whose different possible positions determine the feeding (or not) of motor 21 and magnetic valves 6, and 5, by two feeding lines 27 and 28. More exactly, the switch 22 governs the feeding of motor 21, just as the switch 24 governs the feeding of the magnetic valve 15 and the switches 25 and 26 (either of them, according to the position of a switch 29) govern the feeding of the magnetic valve 5. The feeding of the magnetic valve 6 is governed, instead, not only by the switch 23, but also by a switch 30 controlled by the pressure-stat 18 of FIG.
  • the circuit of FIG. 2 eventually comprises another switch 31, which can be manually actuated, for example by means of a pushbutton.
  • FIG. 3 shows a diagram which reports, as a function of time, the above-mentioned sequence of actions by the switches 22 to 26 (the hatched segments being indicative of the closure stages of the several switches).
  • the switch 23 is opened while the switches and 26 are closed, so that the magnetic valve 5 is energized and, becoming open, starts to dispense carbonated water for a period of time which is a function of the outline of the cam acting upon the one of the switches 25 and 26 which has been preselected by means of the selector switch 29.
  • the position of the selector switch 29 and the outline of the cams acting upon the switches 25 and 26 thus determine the dosage of carbonated water to be dispensed for each drink.
  • the switch 26 Since the switch 26 has been preselected, the dispensing is continued, in the case in point, till the instant of time I otherwise till the instant of time During progress of dispensing, the pressure in the interior of the tank 1 has been gradually decreased until reaching and overtaking the minimum value p,,,, so that the pressure-stat 18 has controlled the displacement of the switch 30.
  • the gas flow which actually began before the completion of the dispensing of carbonated water but, by virtue of the capillary nature of the duct 7 is so slow, with respect to the dispensing flow as itself, as to be wholly unable to allow for the pressure drop caused thereby, is such that, on completion of the dispensing step, the pressure in the tank is increased by an amount which corresponds, as the dispensing operation is completed, to a value equal to the value, p,,, at the outlet of the reducing valve 9.
  • the machine according to the invention has achieved the object of ensuring the maximum constancy of the individually dispensed unit dosages of carbonated water.
  • the pressure at which the water filling is completed and the dispensing is started is uniquely fixed by the pressure-stat 18, so that each individual dispensing operation takes place at a constant rate of flow and, since the dispensing time (preset, as aforesaid, by the outline of the actuating cam for the selected one of the switches 25 and 26) is constant for each kind of drink, the dosage of carbonated water dispensed for each kind of drink is also constant.
  • stirrer 32 immersed in the water of the tub, which has the function of inducing a motion tending to do away with all the possible temperature differentials between the space where the coil is immersed (at an obviously higher temperature by virtue of the heat exchange) and the space the tank 1 is immersed.
  • Another essential condition is that the magnetic valve 6 be located very close to the tank 1: by so doing, in fact, possible drippings of the water left in the duct 19, between the magnetic valve 6 and the tank, into the tank I are prevented: these drippings, if their amount is not negligible, could originate considerable variations of the level, and thus of the pressure, in the tank 1.
  • a machine for the production of carbonated beverages comprising a tank for carbonated water maintained at a preselected temperature and equipped with a dispensing duct towards a collecting vessel, a gas filling duct and a water filling duct, said gas filling duct being fonned by a capillary tube fed by a gas under a constant pressure and being such as to permit the flow of the gas towards said tank and not vice versa, said dispensing duct and said water filling duct being equipped with a first and a second cutoff member, respectively, the opening of each of which is subjected to the closure of the other one, the machine comprising moreover a housing for a flavoring substance ejectable therefrom towards said collecting vessel to be admixed therein with the carbonated water dispensed by the tank and being characterized in that it comprises a pressure-stat adapted to cause the do sure of said second cutoff member when a predetermined value of the pressure in the carbonated water tank is exceeded.
  • a machine according to claim 1 characterized in that the feeding pressure of the gas filling duct is lower than the one, in the interior of the carbonated water tank, at which the pressure-stat causes the closure of said second cutoff member.
  • a machine characterized in that it comprises means for impelling the filling water towards the carbonated water tank, said means comprising a water vessel which communicates, at one end with said water filling duct comprising said second cutting-ofi member and, at the other end, with a gas feeding duct at a pressure at least equal to the one at which the pressure-stat causes the closure of said second cutofi member.
  • a machine according to claim 1 characterized in that said second cutoff member is coupled to a third cutofi member for the filling gas flow within a single three-way valve adapted to establish an alternating communication between the carbonated water tank and either gas filling or water filling duct.
  • a machine characterized in that the housing for the flavoring substance to be admixed with the carbonated water has, mounted therethrough, a duct for feeding a gas under pressure adapted to eject the flavoring substance from said housing, said feeding duct being fitted with a fourth cutoff member.
  • a machine characterized in that it comprises a timer manually actuated for a predetermined time, said timer being adapted to control in succession the opening, when the second and the third cutoff member are closed and opened, respectively, and the subsequent closure of said first cutofi' member provided in the carbonated water feeding conduit, the opening and the subsequent closure of said fourth cutoff member provided in the gas duct for the ejection of the flavoring substance, the opening, subsequent to the closure of said first cutoff member but not necessarily subsequent also to the opening of said fourth cutoff member, of said second cutoff member and the consequent closure of said third cutoff member, and, finally, the controlled closure of the pressure-stat, of said second cutofi member and the consequent opening of said fourth cutoff member.

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