WO2009123493A1

WO2009123493A1 - Device for manually dispensing foamy and/or effervescent beverages

Info

Publication number: WO2009123493A1
Application number: PCT/RU2008/000197
Authority: WO
Inventors: Сергей Александрович БУЧИК
Original assignee: Закрытое Акционерное Общество "Новосибирскпродмаш"
Priority date: 2008-04-01
Filing date: 2008-04-01
Publication date: 2009-10-08
Also published as: CN102026906A; EA201001349A1; CN102026906B; EA016745B1

Abstract

The invention relates to shop equipment and can be used for dispensing beer and other beverages form isobaric containers. The device comprises a delivery channel to be connected to a pipeline for feeding a gas from a pressure source, a delivery channel to be connected to a pipeline for feeding a beverage from an isobaric container, a cavity which is open on the side of the lower end of a body and is connected to the gas and beverage delivery channels by means of a discharge channel via a three-way valve for successively connecting one of the delivery channels to a discharge channel or for disconnecting all the channels. A defoaming unit is designed in the form of a nozzle consisting of an axial through channel and a cylindrical part which is provided with a helical discharge channel on the outer surface thereof. The device has a unit for attaching to a bottle neck and a throttle valve which is connected by means of the inlet channel thereof to the axial through channel of the nozzle. The three-way valve is disposed in the body cavity which has three positioned in series annual chambers. The delivery and discharge channels are connected to said chambers and a reciprocating ring valve and a rod connected to a control handle are arranged in the chambers.

Description

Device for manual filling of foaming and / or carbonated drinks

The technical field The invention relates to the field of food industry, in particular

5 to commercial equipment, and can be used for dispensing beer and other foaming and / or carbonated drinks from isobaric containers into plastic bottles at retail kiosks, shops, restaurants and bars.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION To fill a container, whether it is a bottle or a barrel, through a valve (or valve) with a product, the difference between the pressure in the supply line and the pressure inside the container is necessary. The magnitude of the pressure difference determines the rate at which the product enters the container. Usually, to avoid increasing the surface of the liquid as a result of turbulence, product filling

15 are produced at a small initial rate, which is then slowly increased. For this purpose, the gas pressure is preliminarily injected into the container, which significantly exceeds the saturation pressure of the gas dissolved in the liquid. The liquid to be bottled is also supported by pressure tanks or pumps underneath.

20 pressure and is fed into the filling machine. After preliminary creating a pressure in the container equal to the pressure of the supplied liquid, the container is connected to the supply line for the liquid to be packed. By a controlled release of gas pressure in the container, the conditions for the entry of liquid into it are created. Established at the same time

25, the pressure difference determines the fluid flow rate. It is further known that at the end of the filling process, the gas outlet is throttled, which leads to a decrease in the pressure difference between the inner cavity of the container and the supply line. As a result of this, the amount of liquid poured per unit time decreases towards the end of the filling process, which allows the process to be completed exactly at the moment when the container is filled with a given amount of liquid. This beverage filling technology is known as "reverse gas regulation". The advantage of this regulation is that the gas pressure above the liquid at any time exceeds the saturation pressure in the product. The indicated principle of pouring a drink from large containers into bottles and other containers is implemented in

5 many automated lines (US patent N266OI6I 8, IPC B 67 C 3/06, publ. 08/05/2003; US patent N26192946, IPC B 65 V 1/04, publ. 02/27/2001; Australian patent JY ° 491 145, IPC В 67 3/10, 3/06, publ. 1978; Wolfgang Kunze, Technology of malt and beer.- St. Petersburg, “Professiona”, 2001.- pp. 566-567; Technological equipment for canning factories.- M, 1986.- c. 418-419).

However, such systems for bottling drinks are expensive, difficult to operate, and not very suitable for bottling drinks from kegs in bottles, mugs in retail stores in kiosks, bars, cafes and restaurants.

A device for dispensing beer containing isobaric

15 a container with beer or several such containers with different types of beer, a beer pressurization system, a cooling system and a dispenser equipped with a piping system with dispensers for dispensing a beverage for filling in small containers and a beer dispensing pipe that is made in the form of a closed circuit and equipped with a pump to circulate the drink through it and

20 cooler (US Patent JV ° 6164083, IPC B 67 D 1/08, publ. 12/26/2000).

However, the known device is not able to ensure the safety of the quality of the beverage in the filling system due to its foaming due to the absence of a foam defoaming system for the beverage and provides an excess of foam to the consumer. In addition, the device does not

25 is adapted for pouring a drink into plastic bottles from isobaric containers, and additional refrigeration equipment is required to cool the drink.

A device for manually dispensing foaming and / or carbonated drinks, including a gas cylinder, a keg with a drink, a refrigerator, a rack with a tap for dispensing a drink in small containers and a unit for extinguishing foam when dispensing a drink, installed in the drain pipe of the crane (International application WO 00/58201, IPC B 67 D 1/14, publ. 05.10.2000).

However, this device allows you to pour drinks only in small containers (mugs, glasses) with a low pouring speed and not

5 provides their back-filling in plastic bottles from isobaric containers.

The closest technical solution (prototype) is a device for manually dispensing foaming and / or carbonated drinks, including a beverage preparation system for filling with a gas bottle io and an isobaric beverage container and a beverage dispensing mechanism with a foam extinguishing unit (RF Patent Jfe2266862, IPC B 67 C 3/02, publ. 12/27/05). The beverage dispensing mechanism comprises a housing having a drain channel, a channel connected to a gas supply pipe from a gas cylinder, a channel connected to a beverage supply pipe from

15 isobaric tanks, a knot for attaching the neck of a plastic bottle to the open end of the drain channel, located on the housing near the drain channel and a throttle valve installed in the housing and connected to the drain channel, and a node for extinguishing foam is placed in the drain channel. Channels connected to gas and beverage pipelines are connected

20 by an additional channel with a drain channel through a three-way valve mounted on the body of the mechanism for filling the drink into plastic bottles. The beverage dispensing mechanism is equipped with a tap for dispensing the beverage into mugs or glasses connected to the beverage supply line from the isobaric container. The three-way valve contains a cylindrical

25 case with a cover, in the bottom of which there are two through supply holes and one outlet hole, as well as an upper rotatably mounted coaxially mounted upper disk and a lower disk, which is stationary. The upper disk is rigidly connected through a hole in the lid with a handle located outside the body of the three-way valve, through holes in the lower disk are made through holes aligned with the holes in the bottom of the body. In the body of the upper disk, from the side of the lower disk and opposite it the holes made a blind groove in the shape of a crescent to communicate one of the supply holes of the housing with its outlet hole. Around the handle under the housing cover there is an annular elastic seal for pressing the upper and lower disks against each other and to the bottom of the case, and 5 elastic sealing rings are installed in the openings of the bottom of the case. The attachment site of the neck of the plastic bottle to the end of the drain channel contains an elastic ring element attached to the end of the drain channel coaxially with its outlet and a spoon with a handle and a groove corresponding to the size of the neck of the plastic bottle, and the cylindrical part of the spoon is located around the end of the drain channel at the outlet and kinematically connected to the wall of the drain channel by a bayonet connection, and the groove of the spoon is located in front of the outlet of the drain channel. The bayonet joint is a blind helical groove made in the wall of the drain channel, in which

15 there is an axis with a roller attached to the cylindrical part of the spoon of the mechanism for fastening the neck of a plastic bottle. The specified node allows you to quickly and tightly connect the neck of a plastic bottle with the end of the drain channel of the device for manual filling of foaming and / or carbonated drinks. Node for extinguishing the foam of the beverage dispensing mechanism

20 contains nozzles with a through axial channel having an outer cylindrical part with a helical groove on the side surface, and a shank forming an annular cavity between its outer surface and the surface of the drain channel. The elimination of foaming is ensured by creating a gas pressure in the system

25 filling and above the surface of the drink in a plastic bottle, which exceeds the saturation pressure of the gas dissolved in the drink and does not allow the liquid to “boil”. The unit for extinguishing foam due to centrifugal forces ensures the supply of a drink in the form of a film on the walls of a plastic bottle, which reduces the turbulence of the fluid flow. The disadvantage of this device is the low reliability of the three-way tap-cartridge mechanism for filling the drink and its complexity technological maintenance associated with frequent washing of discs and seals after bottling of a beer or other beverage is completed, and additional refrigeration equipment is required to cool the beverage.

Disclosure of invention

5 The technical result of the invention is the provision of the possibility of cooling the beverage in the process of pouring it into plastic bottles using the inventive device, which reduces foaming and improves the quality of the beverage, improving the reliability of the device for bottling the beverage with back pressure in plastic bottles and simplifying its technological maintenance associated with reducing the frequency of washing the nodes and parts of this mechanism after the bottling of beer or another drink.

The specified technical result is achieved in that in a device for manual filling of foaming and / or carbonated drinks, including

15 case, in the body of which there is a supply channel with a fitting for connecting to a gas supply pipe from a gas cylinder, a supply channel with a fitting for connecting to a beverage supply pipe from an isobaric tank, a stepwise axisymmetric cavity open from the lower end of the case and connected by an additional channel with

20 supplying gas and drink channels through a three-way valve installed in the housing with a control handle for sequentially connecting each supply channel with a discharge channel or disconnecting all supply channels in the intermediate position of the control handle, a unit for extinguishing foam, made in the form of a nozzle with axial through

25 channel, a cylindrical part with a screw drain channel on the outer surface and a stepped shank and placed in a stepwise axisymmetric cavity of the housing, and a mounting unit for the neck of the plastic bottle to the open lower end of the housing, located at the last at the outlet of the screw drain channel of the channel, a throttle valve installed in the housing and connected by an input channel with a through axial channel nozzle, according to b

of the invention, the channel supplying gas is made in the body along the channel supplying the drink or wraps it around. The wall of the housing between the gas and beverage supply channels is made of thermally conductive material.

5 A three-way valve is located in the body of the body cavity, which has three successive annular chambers, the first and third of which are connected to the supply gas and beverage channels, respectively, and to the second cavity, an additional channel connected to the discharge drain channel, and contains an annular valve with an elastic end ιо seal, having an axial channel with an elastic ring seal, located in the third chamber of the body and placed in the valve seat with the possibility of its axial reciprocating displacement and the rod located in the chambers of the housing with the possibility of its axial reciprocating movement, one end of which

15 is withdrawn from the first chamber through an o-ring and kinematically connected to the control handle, and its other end is placed in the opposite third housing chamber, passed through an axial channel of the valve with an elastic ring seal and kinematically connected to it by a first spring, pressing the valve from the end of the stem to the seat of this

20 of the valve formed by a protrusion between the second and third chambers of the body and an annular protrusion made on the rod, in addition, the rod has an axial channel closed at both ends with plugs, a first row of radial through holes made in the rod to communicate its axial channel with the first camera body and second row of radial

25 through holes made in the rod behind its annular ledge along the location of the housing chambers, for communication of the axial channel of the rod with the second housing chamber, moreover, elastic ring seals are installed between the housing and the stem located on both sides of the first housing chamber, and the second and third the chambers are hermetically isolated from each other by means of an annular valve, which is axially pressed against the valve seat by the first spring and additionally through the stem a second spring located around the end of the rod from the side of the handle and kinematically connected with it and the body.

The beverage is cooled by heat exchange between the gas and beverage supply channels, which are adjacent and parallel to each other

5 to a friend in the body of the device body and the three-way valve, due to the expansion of carbon dioxide and its passage through the channel supplying gas and channels of the three-way valve. Improving the reliability of the design of the device for filling the beverage consists in reducing the contact surface of the moving parts of the three-way valve mechanism, which reduces their wear, and also provides more free access to all parts of the valve mechanism in contact with the bottled drinks, which simplifies its technological maintenance associated with washing nodes and details of the mechanism of the crane after the bottling of beer or another drink.

15 The invention is illustrated by drawings, presented on:

- FIG. 1 diagram of a device for manual filling of foaming or carbonated drinks;

- FIG. 2 - same, section along A-A.

- FIG. 3 diagram of a three-way valve in the initial position;

20 - FIG. 4 diagram of a three-way valve in the position when the channels for supplying gas are open;

- FIG. 5 is a diagram of a three-way tap in the position when the valve for dispensing a beverage is open.

Examples of carrying out the invention.

25 A device for manual bottling of a drink with a counter-pressure into plastic PET bottles contains (Fig. 1 and 2) a housing I ₅ mounted, for example, on a stand (not shown in the drawings), in the body of which there is a supply channel 2 with a fitting 3 for connection with a gas supply pipe from a gas cylinder, a supply channel 4 with a fitting 5 for connecting to a beverage supply pipe from an isobaric tank, a stepwise axisymmetric cavity 6, open from the bottom the end face of the housing 1 and connected by the outlet channel 7 with the supplying gas and drink channels 2 and 4 through a three-way valve 8 with a control handle installed in the cavity 9 of the body of the housing 1 with a control handle for sequentially connecting one of the inlet channels 2 or 4 with the outlet channel 7

5 or disable all channels in the intermediate position of the control knob. The unit for extinguishing foam (Fig. 1 and 2) is placed in a stepwise axisymmetric cavity 6 of the housing 1 and is made in the form of a nozzle 10 with an axial through channel 11 and a cylindrical part with a screw drain channel 12 on the outer surface. The gas supply channel 2 is made in the body of the housing 1 along the beverage supply channel 4 or wraps it around (not shown in the drawings). The wall of the housing 1 between the supplying gas and beverage channels 2 and 4 is made of thermally conductive material.

Three-way valve 8 (Fig. 3-5) is located in the cavity 9 of the housing I ₅ which

15 has three successive annular chambers 14, 15 and 16. The chambers 2 and 4 are connected respectively to the chambers 14 and 16 and the channels 2 and 4 are connected to the chambers 15 and the outlet channel 7 connected to the screw drain channel 12 through the cavity 6 is connected. The crane 13 contains an annular valve 17 with an elastic mechanical seal 18 having an axial channel with

20 by an elastic ring seal 19, located in the housing chamber 16 and located in the seat 20 of the valve 17 with the possibility of its axial reciprocating movement and the rod 21 located in the housing chambers 14-16 with the possibility of its axial reciprocating movement. One end of the rod 21 is removed from the chamber 14

25 through an annular seal 22 and kinematically connected with the control handle 23, and its other end is placed in the opposite chamber 16, passed through the axial channel of the valve 17 with an annular elastic seal 19 and kinematically connected with it by a first spring 24, pressing the valve 17 from the end of the rod 21 to the seat 20 of this valve 17. z The seat 20 of the valve 17 is formed by a protrusion 25 between the chambers 15 and 16 of the housing 1 and the annular protrusion 26 made on the stem 21. Stem 21 has an axial channel 27 closed at both ends with plugs 28 and 29, a first row of radial through holes 30 made in the rod 21 for communicating its axial channel 27 with the camera 14 of the housing and a second row of radial through holes 31 made in the rod 21 behind its annular the protrusion 26 along the location of the cameras 14-16 of the housing, for communication of the axial channel 27 of the rod with the camera 15 of the housing. Between the housing 1 and the stem 21 an additional elastic ring seal 32 is installed, located between the chambers 14 and 15 of the housing, and the chambers 15 and 16 are hermetically isolated (with the crane in the neutral position and when gas is supplied to the bottle) from each other by means of an annular valve 17, which is pressed in the axial direction to its saddle 20 by the first spring 24 and additionally through the rod 21 by a second spring 33 located around the end of the rod 21 from the side of the control handle 23 and kinematically connected with it and the housing 1. The neck mount of the plastic b The pin to the lower end of the housing 1 (Fig. 1 and 2) contains an annular elastic element 34 attached to the end of the housing 1 coaxially with the outlet of the screw drain channel 12 and a spoon 35 with a handle 36 and a groove 37 corresponding to the size of the neck of the plastic bottle. Spoon 35 is kinematically connected to the wall of the housing 1 by a bayonet fitting. The throttle valve 38 is installed in the housing 1 and is connected by its input channel 39 with the through axial channel 11 of the nozzle 10.

A device for manual filling of foaming and / or carbonated drinks works as follows.

In accordance with the scheme (Fig. 1 and 2), the device is used for manual filling of foaming and / or carbonated drink of plastic bottles with backpressure from isobaric containers. For this, a plastic bottle is inserted into the groove 37 of the spoon 35 and by turning the handle 36 hermetically dock with the lower end of the housing 1 due to the elastic ring element 34. In this case, the throttle 38 is closed. The handle 23 of the three-way valve 8 (Fig. 3) are in the (neutral) vertical position. Then reject the handle 23 (Fig. 4) a three-way valve 20 degrees (to the opposite side from the operator), which moves the rod 21, compressing the spring 24. The valve 17 remains pressed against the seat 20, and the radial holes 31 open and provide the camera 14 with the camera 15. Channel 3 with gas

5 communicates through a chamber 14, radial holes 30, an axial channel 27, radial holes 31, a chamber 15, a discharge channel 7, an axisymmetric cavity 6, a screw drain channel 12 with an internal volume of the bottle. In this case, CO ₂ gas from the cylinder enters the bottle, the pressure of which is equalized to the pressure in the isobaric tank. The gas, moving along the second channel 2 in the housing 1, expands and cools the channel 4, the drink in it and the housing 1 of the device are several degrees lower than the temperature of the drink before entering the filling device. Next, the handle 23 of the three-way valve (Fig. 5) is tilted 40 degrees in the opposite direction. In this case, the rod 21 together with the valve 17 is mixed in the direction of the opening of the latter, compressing

15 spring 33. With the opening of valve 17, chambers 15 and 16 communicate with each other. Channel 4 with a drink communicates through chambers 16 and 15, the outlet channel 7, an axisymmetric cavity 6, a screw drain channel 12 with the internal volume of the PET bottle. Since the pressure in the PET bottle and the isobaric container is the same, the beverage flows into the indicated

20 capacity not. When the throttle 38 is opened, the CO ₂ gas through the axial channel 11, the inlet channel 39 and the outlet channel of the throttle 38 is forced out of the PET bottle into the atmosphere. A pressure differential is created in the isobaric container and the PET bottle, whereby the drink fills the bottle. Passing through a screw drain channel 12 a drink under the action of centrifugal forces

25 is supplied in the form of a conical-shaped film onto the walls of the neck of a PET bottle and then flows smoothly along its walls, preventing foaming. The elimination of pricing is also ensured by creating a gas pressure in the filling system and above the surface of the drink in a plastic bottle, which exceeds the saturation pressure of the gas dissolved in the drink. When the beverage passes through the cooled channel 4 of the housing 1 and the channels of the three-way tap, its temperature decreases by several degrees, which also reduces foaming and preserves its consumer properties. After filling the bottle with a drink to stop its further flow from the isobaric tank, turn the handle 23 to neutral (20 degrees)

5, the initial vertical position (FIG. 3) together with the stem 21 and valve 17 of the three-way valve 8. The remaining gas in the neck of the PET bottle and partially dissolved gas released from the beverage are removed through the axial channel 11 of the nozzle 10 and the throttle channels 38 to the atmosphere. After equalizing the pressure in the PET bottle to atmospheric, rotate the handle 36 in the opposite direction, disconnecting the lower end of the housing 1 from the neck of the PET bottle, which is removed from the filling device, closed with a stopper and released to the consumer.

The device, including a three-way valve, has a minimum number of parts with rubbing surfaces, is easily disassembled and

15 washed in water or antiseptic fluid

Thus, the invention provides the possibility of cooling the beverage during bottling in plastic bottles using the inventive device, which further reduces foaming and improves the quality of the drink, increases the reliability of the device

20 bottling a drink with back pressure in plastic bottles and simplifies its technological maintenance, associated with a decrease in the frequency of washing nodes and parts of this mechanism after the bottling of beer or another drink.

Industrial applicability

25 The proposed device can be manufactured in the factory for the food industry and distribution network. Testing of prototypes of the device showed its operability and the possibility of simpler technological maintenance during the bottling of beer and other foaming and / or carbonated drinks in comparison with the known analogues.

Claims

Claim

1. A device for the manual filling of foaming and / or carbonated drinks, comprising a housing (1), in the body of which there is a supply channel (2) with a fitting (3) for connection with the pipeline

5 gas supply from a pressure source, a supply channel (4) with a fitting

(5) for connecting to the beverage supply pipeline from an isobaric container, an axisymmetric cavity (6), open from the bottom of the housing (1) and connected by a discharge channel (7) to the gas and beverage supply channels (2 and 4) through a three-way valve ( 8) with a control knob for sequentially connecting one of the supply channels (2 or 4) with a discharge channel (7) or disconnecting all channels, located in the axisymmetric cavity (6) of the housing (1), a unit for extinguishing foam, made in the form of a nozzle (10 ) with an axial through channel (11) and a cylindrical barrel screw drain channel

15 (12) on the outer surface, the attachment point of the neck of the plastic bottle to the open lower end of the housing (1), located on the latter at the outlet of the screw drain channel (12), and a throttle valve (38) installed in the housing (1) and connected its input channel (39) with a through axial channel (11) nozzle

20 (10), characterized in that the channel (2) supplying gas is made in the body of the housing (1) along the channel (4) supplying the drink or wraps it around, and a three-way valve (8) is located in the cavity of the body of the case (1) ), which has three consecutively located annular chambers (14, 15 and 16), to the first and third of which are connected

25, respectively, the gas and drink supply channels (2 and 4) and to the second cavity, the discharge channel (7) connected to the screw drain channel (12) through the cavity (6), and contains an annular valve (17) with an elastic mechanical seal (18 ) having an axial channel with an annular elastic seal (19) located in the third zo chamber (16) of the housing (1) and placed in the valve seat (20) (17) with the possibility of its axial reciprocating movement and a rod (21) located in the chambers (14, 15 and 16) of the housing with the possibility of its axial reciprocating movement, one end of which is withdrawn from the first chamber (14) through an annular seal (22) and kinematically connected to the control handle (23) , but

5, its other end is placed in the opposite third chamber chamber (16), passed through the axial channel of the valve (17) with an elastic ring seal (19) and kinematically connected to it by a first spring (24), squeezing the valve (17) from the end of the rod (21) ) to the seat of this valve, formed by a protrusion (25) between the second and third chambers (15 and 16) of the housing (1) and an annular protrusion (26) made on the stem (21), in addition, the stem (21) has an axial channel (27), closed at both ends with plugs (28 and 29), the first row of radial through holes (30) made in the stem (21) for scheniya its axial channel (27) with the first chamber (14) of the housing and

15 second row of radial through holes (31) made in the rod

(21) behind its annular protrusion (26) along the location of the chambers 14, 15 and 16) of the housing, for communication of the axial channel (27) of the rod (21) with the second chamber (15) of the housing, moreover, between the housing (1) and the rod (21) an additional elastic ring seal is installed (32),

20 located between the chambers (14 and 15) of the housing (1), and the second and third chambers (15 and 16) are hermetically isolated from each other in the initial position by means of an annular valve (17), which is axially pressed against the valve seat (20) (17) the first spring (24) and optionally through the stem (21) a second spring (33) located

25 around the end of the rod (21) from the side of the control handle (23) and kinematically connected with it and the body (1).

2. A device for the manual filling of foaming and / or carbonated drinks according to claim l, characterized in that the wall of the housing (1) between the gas and beverage supply channels (2 and 4) is made of thermally conductive material.