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Definitions

• the invention relates to a drinking device for retronasal absorption of an aroma substance.
• a first step in solving the problem is to add the flavor flavor just before consuming a beverage.
• US 2008/028353 A1, US 2015/030726 A1 and US Pat. No. 8,662,2904 are examples of metering systems in which an initially separately provided flavor substance is supplied to the drinking fluid and dissolved in it immediately before the beverage is consumed or else during this. Although this measure can avoid problems such as the stabilization of the drinking liquid over a prolonged period of time, the problem of the unwanted ingestion of additives remains.
• the invention is based on the object to propose a drinking device that allows the user an improved taste experience.
• the drinking device according to the invention for the retronasal absorption of an aroma substance comprises a reservoir for drinking liquid, at least one aroma container through which air can flow, a transport channel extending from the reservoir to a mouth end of the drinking device
• Drinking liquid and an air channel for transporting aromatized air which extends from at least one of the at least one aroma container either to the transport channel for drinking liquid or mouth end.
• the essential aspect of the drinking device according to the invention is that the
• Aroma substance is taken up retronasal.
• the aroma substance passes together with the drink in the mouth of the user when drinking and then rises retronasally through the pharynx to the olfactory mucosa (regio olfactoria), where it is detected by the receptors located there and perceived by the user.
• the device according to the invention is equally suitable for cold or hot drinking liquid.
• the sense of taste of a human being is significantly influenced by the retronasal sense of smell.
• the receptors of the tongue can only distinguish between sweet, sour, bitter, salty and umami, whereas the differentiated sense of taste arises from the fact that the gaseous phase of
• Smell substance only smells, but does not taste like in the retronasal intake.
• the preferably refillable designed reservoir can be pure water or with
• the drink can also have a taste of their own.
• Taste of the drinking liquid is either enhanced by the aroma substance from the aroma container or supplemented by one or more additional flavor components. If, for example, apple juice is present in the storage container, then apple aroma can be used to reinforce the aroma substance from the aroma container or supplemented by one or more additional flavor components. If, for example, apple juice is present in the storage container, then apple aroma can be used to reinforce the aroma substance from the aroma container or supplemented by one or more additional flavor components. If, for example, apple juice is present in the storage container, then apple aroma can be used to reinforce the aroma substance from the aroma container or supplemented by one or more additional flavor components.
• Taste experience are supplied, or, for example, orange flavor are supplied to produce a flavor mixture.
• alcoholic beverages such as beer, provided with additional flavor substances, which can be addressed to the specific preferences of a user by a corresponding aroma container in the
• Drinking device according to the invention is used. Moreover, in the here disclosed
• Drinking also non-standard flavors are used in the food industry, such as the known from the Kunststoffbeduftung “sandalwood” or “spring meadow” or “unicorn”.
• the aroma used can be artificial or natural. It is possible to use flavors isolated or fortified from an artificial or natural source, as well as natural substances such as fresh or processed products from, for example, lemon peel, dandelion leaves, licorice or other aroma-containing substances.
• a plurality of aroma containers can also be provided.
• This can be a substitute aroma container, which can be used as soon as the aroma container in use is exhausted.
• it is alternatively or additionally also possible to use a plurality of aroma containers which are used at the same time in order to be able to produce any flavor mixtures from various basic flavors.
• the transport channel for drinking liquid extends to the mouth end, while the air channel either opens into the transport channel for drinking liquid in the immediate vicinity of the mouth end, or else runs separately to the transport channel for drinking liquid to the mouth end.
• Transport channel for drinking liquid opens is that no misuse is possible.
• the aroma substance is automatically included.
• the disadvantage of this solution is that there are air bubbles in the drink. The drink is therefore associated with increased noise, similar to drinking from a straw through which both liquid and air is sucked. Furthermore, the user no longer has the desired impression of drinking pure liquid such as water.
• the contact between the drinking liquid and the flavored air for a prolonged period of time during which a substance transfer of the aroma substance from the air into the surrounding drinking liquid takes place. The drinking liquid is therefore "contaminated” regardless of the harmlessness of the aroma substance in the perception of the user. Therefore, those solutions are preferred in which the air duct runs separately to the transport channel for drinking liquid to the mouth end.
• the mouth end is designed so that the
• Mouth end separated from each other and extend substantially equally long in the longitudinal direction.
• longitudinal direction is to be understood as meaning the direction in the longitudinal extent of the transport channel for drinking liquid and of the air channel for transporting aromatized air at the mouth end. In other words, when drinking, the transport channel for drinking liquid and the air channel extend substantially equally far into the oral cavity of the user.
• the flavored air and the drinking liquid are sucked separately from the drinking device.
• the flavored air does not first have to escape from the surrounding drinking liquid in the form of air bubbles, but can ascend into the olfactory mucosa through the pharynx immediately after entry into the oral cavity.
• Another advantage of a separate supply of the flavored air and the drinking liquid in the oral cavity is that even less mass transfer between the air and the drinking liquid can take place. This has two reasons. The first reason is that the aromatized air is not contained in the form of small bubbles in the drinking liquid and thus a significantly lower total surface for the mass transfer between the liquid phase and the gaseous phase is available. The second reason is that the user is significantly less and actually one
• this technical solution also has the advantage that the user has the feeling of receiving a clear drinking liquid, but not one, albeit only to a small extent, of gasified drinking liquid. The user learns that he is consuming pure fluid, such as water.
• a variant of the solution according to the invention is that the mouth end is designed so that when using the drinking device, the transport channel for drinking liquid and the air duct for transporting aromatized air extend to different distances in the mouth of the user.
• the air channel for transporting aromatized air can extend further into the mouth of the user than the transport channel for drinking fluid, or the transport channel for drinking fluid extends further into the oral cavity of the user.
• Both solutions have in common that the flavored air and the drinking liquid are sucked separately from the device.
• Both variants also have in common that the mass transfer between the flavored air and the drinking liquid is kept as low as possible.
• the technical challenge of all the solutions described above is to match the geometries of the transport channel for drinking liquid and the air duct to each other so that depending on the drinking position and for special drinking liquids and the viscosity of the drinking liquid, the flavored air and the drinking liquid in the desired quantity ratio sucked each other become.
• the drinking device further comprises a throttle device and / or sealing device for the transport channel for drinking liquid and / or the air channel for transporting aromatized air, wherein the sealing device is preferably provided in a mouthpiece mouthpiece and the mouthpiece of a sealing Position is movable to a non-sealing position.
• a throttle device may alternatively be provided to a sealing device, but preferably in addition to a sealing device.
• a throttle device makes it possible to adjust the ratio between the drinking liquid and the flavored air, whereby, for example, the degree of aromatization, or the flow rate of drinking liquid can be adjusted.
• a simple embodiment of a throttle device, which can be actuated but until complete sealing, is a squeezing device, by means of which a flexible portion of the transport channel or air duct can be reduced or completely clamped with respect to its inner cross section.
• a preferred alternative embodiment of the sealing device is the provision of a pull-cock which is preferably located on the mouthpiece and is withdrawn by the user to open the flow. After drinking, the suction tap is pushed back towards the mouthpiece to close the air duct and the transport channel.
• Another preferred alternative of the drinking device according to the invention comprises a rotary plug, which is opened or closed by the user by turning.
• the use of rotary plugs is well known in the chemical arts, as a rotary plug is a simple but very tight fitting component.
• a rotary plug can also be adjusted continuously, so that a
• Rotary plug combines the functionalities of a throttle device and a shut-off in it.
• a further preferred alternative of the device according to the invention comprises a slide valve, which is provided according to a preferred variant in a lid of the drinking device and at the same time may include the mouthpiece.
• the advantage of such a slide valve is that it is immediately apparent whether the valve is in the open or closed state.
• a preferred alternative embodiment of the device is the provision of a rotary lid, which is either placed or screwed on and thereby seals the drinking device.
• a rotating lid is well suited to tightly seal the drinking device even when an increased pressure builds up inside the reservoir, as may occur when the drink is a carbonated drink.
• Such a lid can both the transport channel for
• a rotary lid protects the mouthpiece from soiling and is an element familiar to any user and is trusted to be suitable for sealing the drinking device.
• a preferred alternative embodiment of the device is the provision of a sports valve, as is known for drinking bottles, for example, when riding a bicycle. Accordingly, the function of a sports valve is known, so that the user intuitively pulls the valve to drink and pushes back to its original position after drinking.
• the embodiment according to which the mouthpiece of the drinking device is at the same time a shut-off device by means of which all transport paths running in the direction of the mouthpiece can be sealed tight is particularly preferred.
• the mouthpiece according to a preferred variant of the invention is designed so that it can be moved via a translational movement of the sealing position in the non-sealing position.
• the mouthpiece can be designed so that both the transport channel for drinking liquid and the air duct, but also the air line can be sealed and opened for the inflow of air into the interior of the reservoir. The user therefore only has to bring the mouthpiece into an operating position, whereby the user unnoticed the sealing device is actuated.
• the at least one aroma container can be removed and used with the aid of a simple movement sequence in the drinking device according to the invention.
• a bayonet closure can be used.
• a bayonet closure has the advantage that after insertion the correct orientation of the
• Aroma container is ensured in the drinking device.
• a spring element can additionally be provided which allows the aroma container to emerge from its receptacle as soon as the aroma container has not been used properly.
• one of the at least one flavor container comprises a sealing device, wherein the aroma container is movable from a sealing position to a non-sealing position.
• An aroma container of substantially circular cross-section may be used in the same manner as the rotary plug described above by rotating the aroma container about its axis of symmetry to bring the drinking liquid transport channel into alignment with the channel through the aroma container. The advantage of this solution is that no additional component is required.
• the aroma container from a sealing position to a non-sealing position by displacing the aroma container in an axial direction.
• an aroma container of any prismatic or annular geometry could be pushed in the axial direction to place the aroma container in a non-sealing position.
• the aroma container can lock in this position, i. automatically stay in this position, or a drink with aroma supply is only possible if the aroma container is kept pressed. In this way, a user could additionally choose between drinking liquid with and without flavored air.
• At least one of the at least one aroma container may comprise a plurality of chambers containing aroma substances of different odor intensity and / or different odor qualities.
• Drinking device may be provided a plurality of aroma containers.
• one or more aroma containers may be provided and this aroma container or any number of the plurality of aroma containers may additionally comprise a plurality of chambers.
• any variants can be realized.
• this may contain different flavors, so that depending on the direction of insertion or even during the drinking by the user changeable orientation of the aroma container a
• Aroma container when providing a single Aroma container the type of flavor but also the flavor strength can be varied.
• one aroma container could have two, three, or more different flavor intensities one and the same
• Aroma directions, flavoring, or by the addition of one and the same aroma direction produce any Aromamischept that can be individually assembled by a user.
• one of the at least one aroma container is located in a mouthpiece of the drinking device, wherein the mouthpiece is preferably exchangeable.
• Aroma container a new mouthpiece is attached to the drinking device.
• Aroma container a new mouthpiece is attached to the drinking device.
• Reservoir for drinking liquid is to be respected.
• the provision of the aroma container integrated either in the mouthpiece or on a lid of the reservoir has the advantage that the user can recognize the "flavor" directly.
• the mouthpiece could be colored according to the flavor selected and, for example, a yellow color for a lemon flavor or a green color for a
• the reservoir for drinking liquid is provided with a lid. If the lid is removed, so is the user both
• a hint tab is provided on the aroma container, which protrudes after placing the lid to the outside of the drinking vessel and a user on the inserted Aroma direction informed.
• the tab can be conveniently gripped to remove the aroma container.
• the aroma container is designed as a ring which is located near the mouth end of the drinking device. There may be a single chamber in the ring. In the annular aroma container, a plurality of chambers with different flavors may be provided, which are preferably characterized by an additional marking and / or coloring for the user. In this way, the user can intuitively change the aroma via the operation of the aroma ring, which can also be done while drinking.
• a flavor container in the form of a ring offers many options that can be used in a user-friendly way.
• the drinking device further comprises a pull valve as a pressure equalizing valve, which closes an air supply line, which leads into the interior of the reservoir for drinking liquid. Builds by drinking, i. the
• An exemplary, such variant is the provision of a mouthpiece, which can be pivoted from a sealing position to an operating position, while the air line for pressure equalization is located at another point of the container.
• the drinking device further comprises a head part, which comprises the mouth end and is movably arranged relative to the reservoir, wherein the head part of a transport channel for the drinking liquid and / or the air duct sealing position in a non-sealing position is movable.
• the head part of the drinking device rotatably on the reservoir for
• the geometry of the head part relative to the reservoir can be chosen so that when turning the head part, when the head part is placed in the drinking position, obliquely, so that on the one hand for the user ergonomically convenient drinking is possible and the other for the user is clear that the drinking device is in the ready state and improper handling, the drinking liquid can leak.
• a drinking device can be designed with a futuristic-looking design language that underlines the claim to a new and innovative drinking device.
• the drinking device according to the invention can be configured in many different ways. It can be a mobile water bottle, either single-walled or double-walled
• thermos is executed.
• an open drinking vessel similar to a cup, be provided, however, to ensure the correct drinking, so that when drinking both the drinking liquid as well as the aroma to be dosed in the pharynx is performed.
• the aroma container could be a ring which surrounds the reservoir for drinking liquid and from which the aroma is either metered into the transport channel for drinking liquid, or else is supplied to the user in an air duct running separately on the container rim of the drinking cup.
• the cup can also be closed at the top and used as a so-called shot glass.
• This variant can be used to taste-modifying drinking liquids such as spirits, liqueurs or even caffeinated or -free drinks with certain flavorings, or to enhance an existing taste or to mask possibly unwanted sensory perceptions.
• Drinking device to be integrated in a straw, which includes the mouth end and the end opposite the mouth end is in the reservoir for drinking liquid.
• the straw is in this case at the same time from the reservoir to the mouth end of the
• the aroma container may be provided in the form of a straw surrounding the ring and thereby be above the level for drinking liquid, so that when using the straw air is sucked into the aroma container and guided either via a parallel to the transport channel for drinking liquid extending air channel to the mouth end is, or opens into the transport channel for drinking liquid, so that the supplied aroma is metered in the form of air bubbles of the drinking liquid.
• the head part of the drinking device is divisible, dismountable or hinged.
• the head part consist of one, two or more parts, the use of the device must be joined together. It is possible, for example, a substantially axisymmetric division of the head part, so that in non-assembled position, the channels of the drinking device completely or partially exposed.
• This offers several advantages. First of all, this makes it easier to clean the drinking device, since in this way the partially narrow channels of the device can be easily reached by cleaning liquid and the cleaning liquid is not retained by capillary forces that may occur.
• the possibility is given by a divisible solution of the head part of the drinking device, the aroma reservoir of the
• the head part is that part of the drinking device in which the essential technology and / or the aroma reservoir of the drinking device is / are arranged. Conveniently, it is mounted on the head of the drinking device, but may also be located at another location of the drinking device or integrated into the drinking device.
• a simplified sealing of the system can be made possible by using a substantially elastic material, such as silicone or other elastomers, for producing the divisible or non-divisible head part or parts of the head part of the drinking device.
• a used divisibility of the header allows an increased number of
• the channels have a special shape. It is possible, for example, on the one hand, that the channel for the liquid at one, two or more locations is extended or tapered, so the diameter of the channels is larger or smaller than at the other locations.
• a rejuvenation or enlargement can be carried out, for example, in or on the mouthpiece of the drinking device. This allows a changed mouthfeel of the user when drinking from the drinking device. The drinking sensation is a problem in the previous solutions because the consumer is not used to drinking liquid together with air bubbles.
• the pressure conditions change there, so that the size and / or shape of the air bubbles in the liquid change. This improves the drinking pleasure of the user.
• Liquid channel at the point of the mouth of the air channel of the drinking device can have several advantages.
• the rejuvenation at the Entry point there is the dynamic pressure (dynamic pressure) maximum and the static pressure minimal.
• the speed of the liquid increases in proportion to the cross sections as it flows through the constricted part, since the amount of liquid does not change.
• the pressure in the air duct which is preferably attached to the narrowest point, decreases. This creates a pressure difference that increases the absorption of the flavored air in the liquid of the drinking device.
• the user for example, must be less strongly sucked on the drinking device, which improves the drinking or constructive advantages.
• a further preferred change in the geometry of the channels in the drinking device comprises different surfaces of the channel inside or obstacles that change the flow conditions in the liquid-carrying channels.
• cavitation can occur.
• a changed air bubble size and / or bubble geometry can be achieved. This also improves the feeling of drinking by the user.
• the change in the size of the air bubbles can also be achieved, for example, by the use of a substantially sieve-like geometry or a membrane.
• the air channel of the drinking device may have a special shape. Previous solutions use a consistently similar shaped channel.
• the air duct must be small
• the solution according to the invention therefore provides, for example, that the air duct is essentially only tapered at a short point. This makes a simplified producibility and an easier cleaning possible.
• a further preferred embodiment of the drinking device according to the invention provides that the aroma unit of the drinking device according to the invention must be activated before use.
• the aroma may initially be encapsulated micro- or macroscopically. The activation can be done for example by a change in temperature or a mechanical process.
• a preferred embodiment provides an air-permeable filter in which a substantially circular flavor unit is placed, the interior of which contains substantially a fluid comprising an aromatizing substance.
• the shell of the aroma unit is preferably made of a material such as gelatin or agarose, so that in the inactive state, a sealed shell holds the fluid with the flavored substance in the non-volatile state. By activating, for example by destroying the shell under pressure, the fluid is released into the surrounding filter.
• Such solutions are proposed, for example, in US 20040261807 AI for use in cigarettes. According to the invention, this technology according to a preferred embodiment in the inventive
• Drinking device can be used. This results in several advantages. For example, you can As a result, the flavor substances are protected from oxidative processes and can generally
• a further preferred embodiment of the drinking device according to the invention provides that the air duct comprises a specially shaped chamber. This solves the problem that occurring at the termination of the drinking process at the drinking device fluctuations in pressure and
• Flow conditions in the transport channel for drinking liquid cause it to come in the presence of drinking liquid in the air duct and / or the aroma container.
• This ingress of liquid, for example, in the aroma container lead to the fragrance-emitting substance is diluted undesirably or it comes to hygienic problems.
• the interruption of the air duct through a chamber can be carried out to the effect that a recess in the head part of the drinking device is provided at the contact point of the removable transport channel for drinking liquid and the air channel.
• the air channel coming from the aroma container opens into the chamber at a substantially upper position. On the substantially opposite side of the air duct is continued at a substantially lower position of the chamber. Through the chamber, a return of the drinking liquid is prevented in the aroma reservoir.
• the chamber Due to the substantially opposite position of the continuation of the air duct, the chamber is ideally used. Due to the different high positions of the inlet and the outlet opening of the air channel in and out of the chamber, a drainage of drinking liquid back into the drinking device is made possible, among other things.
• the possible arrangement of the chamber at the contact point between the head and transport channel for drinking liquid allows easier cleaning after disassembly of the two components.
• an average air flow through the air duct during normal drinking from the drinking device according to the invention is expediently between about 250 and 550 ml / min.
• This air flow is achieved, for example, when using an air duct with a diameter of about 0.5 to 2.5 mm or a non-circular cross section at a
• the air flow can be adjusted, such as by a substantially short taper of the air duct, a valve, which can also be designed as a check valve to the entry of
• a substantially permeable membrane can be mounted, for example, at the mouth of the air channel in the transport channel for drinking liquid.
• the air flow adjusted to an appropriate level, but also the air bubbles entering the fluid stream are adjusted to a desired size, resulting in a more pleasant drinking experience for the drinker.
• Another advantage of using a membrane at this point is that the above-described variations in the pressure and Flow conditions at the end of the drinking process do not cause that at this or another moment drinking liquid enters the air duct and / or the aroma container or the amount is reduced.
• Drinking device to prevent the ingress of drinking liquid into the aroma container. It would be desirable for the user of the drinking devices to be able to close all three openings in only one operation. A further preferred embodiment therefore provides that the
• Drinking device is sealed with a lid that simultaneously closes all three openings. This may preferably be made possible by inserting into at least one of the three openings (one each) a pin / mandrel and sealing off any remaining openings by conventional systems. For example, while a spike / pin far into the transport channel for
• Drinking liquid are introduced, that thereby also the confluence of the air channel in the
• a further preferred embodiment which solves the problem of sealing the aroma reservoir described at the beginning of this section, provides that the aroma reservoir is, for example, substantially annular and that the fluid connection between the, for example, removable aroma container and the air channel by a movement such as the turning over of the aroma container, is separated.
• the air outlet opening must, for example, be arranged off-center on the aroma container so that a flavor container attached to the reverse side closes the aroma container side end of the air channel.
• Fig. 1 shows schematically a first possibility of the mouthpiece technique of an inventive
• Drinking device for retronasal intake of a flavor substance shows
• Fig. 2 shows an alternative mouthpiece technique of a drinking device according to the invention for
• Fig. 5 schematically illustrates a spool valve
• Fig. 6 is a sectional view through the drinking device according to the invention with a the
• Fig. 7 shows schematically a drinking device according to the invention with a as a pull
• Fig. 8 schematically illustrates the use of a rotary plug by a user
• Fig. 9 shows schematically the function of an integrated valve in separately running
• Fig. 10 shows schematically the function of an integrated valve when running in series
• FIG. 1 schematically represent plan views of the reservoir of the drinking device according to the invention, on each of which a head part is placed and in which different arrangements for the filling opening for drinking liquid and the inclusion of one or more aroma containers are shown; schematically illustrates a way to identify the aroma container used;
• Fig. 14a and Fig. 14b show a detail view and an exploded view of a flavoring device integrated in the drinking device: schematically shows the use of a flavoring container for the individual composition of a single flavored total aroma shows; schematically illustrates an aroma container, which is suitable for insertion into a correspondingly shaped bayonet mount;
• FIG. 17 schematically shows the insertion of the aroma container shown in FIG. 16 into a
• 19 is a schematic sectional view of an attachable to a drinking device
• Fig. 21 is a schematic sectional view through a drinking device according to the invention under
• FIG. 22 is a schematic plan view of a drinking device according to the invention with a flavor ring divided into individual segments;
• FIG. 23 a is a schematic external view
• Fig. 23b shows schematically the use of the drinking device according to Fig. 23a
• Fig. 23c shows the detail marked A in Fig. 23b enlarged;
• FIG. 24a schematically illustrates a drinking device according to the invention combined as a bottle cap with a conventional drinking bottle
• FIG. Fig. 24b shows the bottle cap schematically in an enlarged view
• FIG. 1 show a drinking device according to the invention using a straw and a sectional view through the straw to illustrate the principle of action
• Fig. 29 schematically shows a preferred embodiment of the air duct
• Figure 31 shows a preferred embodiment of the divisible head portion with internal aroma reservoir
• FIG. 1 schematically show a preferred embodiment of the head part of the drinking device, which includes a device which prevents the entry of liquid into the air duct.
• a drinking device 10 is shown schematically, which consists in the following embodiment of a filled with pure drinking liquid reservoir 12 and a head part 14. Under pure drinking liquid is always understood that drinking liquid that does not contain added by the inventive hydration system flavor.
• the head part 14 has a mouthpiece 16, which is integrated in the present case in the head part, but, as shown by different
• a flavor tank 20 which is in a manner not shown in flow communication with the ambient air and from which leads away an air duct 22 for transporting aromatized air. Furthermore, a transport channel 18 is provided for drinking liquid, which is in the present
• Embodiment comparable to a straw in the existing in the reservoir 12 pure liquid extends.
• the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air are connected in series, i. the air duct 22 opens into the
• Transport channel for drinking liquid in which consequently in the section 18 a both the sucked by the user via the mouthpiece 16 is pure liquid, as well as air bubbles with flavored air.
• both the pure liquid and the aromatized air are taken orally.
• the liquid phase and gas phase segregated and the gaseous flavored air passes through the retronasal path 24 in the direction of arrow A to the olfactory mucosa 26, where the aroma is detected by the located in the olfactory mucosa receptors and on the neuronal processing of sensory stimuli to the user creates the impression as if the pure liquid that the user drinks (arrow B) has the flavor added by the flavor.
• the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air are arranged parallel to each other, ie there is no mixing before the mouth end 28 instead.
• the other components as well as the operating principle completely correspond to those according to the embodiment shown schematically in Fig. 1.
• the mouth end 28 extends a little way into the mouth of the user. In the illustration according to FIG. 2, however, the extension has been shown exaggeratedly for clarity.
• the advantage of extending the mouth end 28 into the oral cavity is that the least possible mixing takes place between the flavored air and the pure liquid. In the same way, it is of course also possible for the mouth end 28 to be in the area of the lips of the user when used as intended.
• the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air and the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid extend equally far into the oral cavity of the user, i. the transport channel 18 and the air channel 22 both end at the same location at the mouth end 28.
• the transport channel 18 and the air duct 22 In the parallel arrangement of the transport channel 18 and the air duct 22 but this need not necessarily be the case and one of the two channels can be less in the
• the user's oral cavity extends than the other. Accordingly, two variants are conceivable.
• the air duct 22 extends further into the oral cavity as the
• Transport channel 18 for the drinking liquid In this variant, not shown, the user has the feeling of receiving the drinking liquid directly through the mouthpiece of the bottle to the lips. However, the flavored air is led a little way into the oral cavity and thus only in contact with the pure liquid for a very short time, so that a mass transfer between the aromatized air and the pure liquid can be virtually ruled out.
• the flavored air is led a little way into the oral cavity and thus only in contact with the pure liquid for a very short time, so that a mass transfer between the aromatized air and the pure liquid can be virtually ruled out.
• Geometry and the length of each channel also be technically conditioned to during the
• the aroma does not leak in an undesirable manner during storage of the drinking device, but can also leak a already filled with pure liquid drinking device.
• the drinking device must still have an air channel between the interior of the reservoir for drinking liquid and the outside atmosphere, which serves to equalize the pressure and according to the volume taken from the drinking device when drinking
• Drinking liquid introduces a corresponding volume of air in the drinking device. Also, this air duct should be provided with a suitable shut-off device, so that no drinking liquid can escape undesirable.
• the mouthpiece is pivotally mounted about an axis of rotation 30 to the drinking device 10 and in the direction of arrow C between the drinking position shown in Fig. 3a and the sealed position shown in Fig. 3b is movable back and forth.
• the mouthpiece is provided with a continuation 18b of the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and a continuation 22b of the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air, which are aligned only in the drinking position shown in Fig. 3a with the channels 18 and 22, so that the user drinking liquid and flavored air through the mouthpiece 16 can suck.
• a positive connection between the drinking device 10 and the mouthpiece 16 takes place, creating a high-quality aesthetic impression.
• FIGS. 4a and 4b show schematically a possible embodiment of a balancing valve for the air channels 32 for the inflow of air for the purpose of pressure equalization. This is a
• Such a check valve may consist of an elastic member 34, which is firmly fixed on the one hand in a wall 36 of the drinking device according to the invention and on the other hand provided with an elastic sealing plate 38, which in the case of negative pressure, as shown in Fig. 4a, under the influence the increased external pressure is deformed so that in the direction of arrow D air can flow through the air passage 32 into the interior of the reservoir.
• the sealing plate 38 is from the inside of the container close to the wall 36 and closes the air duct 32, so that, as shown in Fig. 4b, no outside air in the direction of E in the Inside the reservoir 12 can flow and at the same time no liquid can flow through the air channel 32. If, for some reason, the pressure inside the reservoir is higher than the pressure of the outside atmosphere, the situation is the same as shown in Figure 4b and the undesirable leakage of liquid or air from inside the reservoir is prevented.
• Fig. 5 is a variant of the solution shown in Figs. 3a and 3b using a rotatable mouthpiece.
• the mouthpiece 16 in the direction of arrow F and back is displaced and is, as shown in Fig. 5, in the drinking position a short distance from the head portion 14 of the drinking device 10 before.
• this may be provided in a suitable manner at the top with a grip aid in the form of a corrugation (not shown).
• Embodiment of Fig. 5 is a very shapely solution, since after drinking the
• Mouthpiece 16 opposite to the direction of the arrow F is moved until the mouth end 28 flush with the contact surface of the head part 14, which also indicates to the user directly whether the drinking device is in an open or closed state.
• the solution according to FIG. 5 can be implemented in that, in the axial direction of the drinking device, first the
• Transport channels 18 and 20 extend in the direction of the mouthpiece and only in the position shown in Fig. 5 pushed out position of the mouthpiece 16 with the mouthpiece arranged continuations of the transport channels 18 and 22 are aligned. This could be achieved for example by the use of an eccentric, so that the opening and closing is made possible by a rotational movement.
• FIG. 6 another embodiment of the invention is shown using a rotary cover 40 which is screwed onto the reservoir 12 and the mouth end 28 with the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and the air duct 22 for transporting aromatized air closes to the outside.
• the rotary cover 40 may also extend so far over the body of the reservoir 12, that at a screwed lid at the same time not shown in Fig. 6 inlet opening to the air duct for the pressure equalization is closed.
• the advantage of a lid is also that it protects the mouth end 28 from contamination and due to the pressure resistance of a screw for secure sealing with a
• carbonated liquid 42 filled drinking device is suitable.
• the variant of a locking device shown in FIG. 7 has a pull-in hook 44, which is arranged in the head part 14.
• the drinking device 10 opens for drinking.
• For tight sealing of the pull-cock 44 is again pressed against the direction of arrow G in the direction of the headboard.
• the position of the mouthpiece designed as a puller 44 makes it clear to the user that he does not have to tilt the bottle in order to drink.
• About a coding / marking, for example, with different colors could also the user be given a clear indication that the pull is in the pulled-out position and thus the drinking device is not sealed tight.
• a further solution using a rotary plug is shown schematically.
• the rotary plug 46 can be used both as a sealing device and as a throttling device for throttling the guided through the transport channel 18 volume flow of drinking liquid as well as the guided through the air duct 22 volume flow of aromatized air.
• the rotary plug 46 shown schematically in Fig. 8 is rotatably disposed in the head portion of the drinking device and can be moved by the user in the direction of rotation H by the user operating the handwheel 50.
• Part of the rotary plug 46 is a rotatably guided in the housing shaft 52, in which
• openings 48a and 48b are located, which are not aligned in the orientation shown in Fig. 8 with the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and the transport channel 20 for aromatized air.
• the shaft 52 is rotated by about 90 ° in the direction of arrow H with the openings 48a and 48b by an actuation of the rotary plug 46, then the openings 48a and 48b are aligned with the channels 22 and 18, so that the flow connections are opened.
• the openings 48a and 48b can be brought into a position in which only a part of the.
• Opening cross-section of the openings 48a and 48b are available for the flow of air and liquid. In this way, the rotary plug can also be used for throttling.
• the ratio of drinking liquid and flavored air can be varied.
• the openings 48b in the rotary plug and the x-shaped channels for the transport of drinking liquid each have the same flow cross-section, while the x-shaped channels for the transport of aromatized air have different flow cross-sections.
• the opening 48a and the subsequent channel have a larger flow cross-section than the opening 48c and the subsequent channel.
• the advantage of the rotary plug is thus that the flow can be adjusted continuously and the operation of the locking device for each user is intuitively detected.
• a sports valve may be provided, in which, similar to the embodiment of Fig. 7, the mouthpiece is displaced in an axial direction between the closed and the open position.
• the operation of the mouthpiece can be aromatized next to the transport channel 18 for drinking and the air duct 22 for transport Air and the air duct 32 are opened and closed simultaneously for pressure equalization.
• the mouthpiece is withdrawn when the drinking device is to be placed in the drinking state and accordingly pushed back towards the reservoir when the drinking device is to be sealed.
• no tumbling of the drinking device when drinking is required because the drinking liquid and the flavored air are sucked in by the user.
• FIGS. 9 and 10 show the use of an integrated valve in FIGS. 9 and 10.
• FIG. 9 shows the integrated valve in the case of a separate air duct 22 for transporting aromatized air and transport channel 18 for drinking liquid, while in FIG. 10 the transport channels 18 and 20 are connected in series, as was shown schematically with reference to FIG ,
• Fig. 9 it is clear that the mouthpiece 16 of the drinking device in the direction of arrow J relative to the head part 14 can be pulled out and pushed back into it.
• the transport channel 18 and the air channel 22 are opened so that it is possible to drink from the drinking device.
• the air channel 32 is open for pressure equalization. If now the mouthpiece 16 is moved toward the head part 14 until the mouthpiece 16 bears firmly against the head part 14, the mouth of the mouthpiece 16 closes the opening of the air channel 32 tightly with the neck 54. Due to the offset of the mouthpiece 16 relative to the head part, the flow connection from the head part to the mouthpiece is also interrupted at the point of entry of the air channel 22 into the mouthpiece 16, so that the air channel 22 is closed. Furthermore, by the
• a locking of the mouthpiece 16 in the closed position can be realized via form-locking elements in the form of, for example, locking nipples 15a, 17a and corresponding depressions 15b and 17b, which are illustrated in FIG.
• the embodiment according to FIG. 10 differs from that according to FIG. 9 only in that in the mouthpiece 16 the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air is not guided to the mouth end 28 but opens into the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid in the area of the mouthpiece.
• FIG. 1a and 1b integrate the sealing device into the aroma container 20.
• the aroma container is pressed with the aid of a finger in the direction of arrow L against the pressure force of a spring 56 to the extension 18b of the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid provided in the aroma container 20 to bring in the illustrated in Fig. 1 lb aligned connection with the sections 18a and 18c of the transport channel for drinking liquid.
• the fluid connection through the transport channel 18 only exists as long as a user actually presses the aroma container 20 from the outside with his finger. In the same way it is also possible, comparable to the
• a shut-off device can also be configured via a squeezing device.
• a portion of the sealed channel for example, the transport channel for drinking liquid must be provided with a flexible hose which is squeezed for example via a rotatably mounted in a groove wheel, whereby the flow connection is throttled or interrupted.
• the technical solution meets the hygienic requirements, because there is no direct contact between the Absperrrad and guided in the transport channel substance. Therefore, this solution is also for example in
• the drinking device can be configured so that, for example, in the bottom of the drinking device is a further receiving geometry for at least one other aroma container, which can be exchanged for the existing aroma container as soon as the aroma container is exhausted in operation or the consumer the
• Embodiments are shown, which schematically show a plan view of the reservoir 12, which is rotatably connected via a centrally arranged rotary connection 58 with a head portion, not shown in Figs. 12a to 12d.
• a plan view of the reservoir 12 which is rotatably connected via a centrally arranged rotary connection 58 with a head portion, not shown in Figs. 12a to 12d.
• Reservoirs 12 is a filling opening 60 for drinking liquid.
• a single aroma container 20 is provided, while in the embodiments according to FIGS. 12a and 12d, three aroma containers 20 are used in each case, wherein a different number of aroma containers is also possible.
• the corresponding receptacles 66 for the aroma container 20 are shown in FIG. 13.
• the aroma containers 20 may be provided with a marking tab 62 which, after flush fitting of the aroma containers 20 into the corresponding receptacle 66 in FIG. 13
• Reservoir 12 allows the removal of the aroma container 20.
• the fragrance container 20 allows the removal of the aroma container 20.
• Marker tabs 62 may be arranged so that they extend beyond the reservoir 12 and thus can give the user information about the flavor used.
• Fig. 12a to 12d and Fig. 13 When providing a plurality of aroma containers can be selected by rotating the in Fig. 12a to 12d and Fig. 13, not shown head portion relative to the body of the reservoir 12 between the individual flavor directions.
• the headboard is provided with corresponding markings or a latching mechanism, not shown, with the help of which a user
• Flow connection of the air channel 22 can produce starting from one of the plurality of aroma container to the mouthpiece of the drinking device. In this way, the flavor can be changed even while drinking. Likewise, however, pure drinking liquid can also be consumed by the deliberate arrangement of the head part in a position in which there is no continuous connection of any of the air ducts 22.
• a mixture between individual flavors are produced.
• a mixing device 64 is arranged between the reservoir 12 and the head portion 14 with mouthpiece 16, which comprises three different receptacles for aroma container 20 in the embodiment of FIG. 14a, each designed in the intermediate plate Mixing device 64 are used.
• a mixed flavor can be produced from various aroma substances, which is sucked off via the mixing ring 68 and fed via the adjoining air channel 22 in the head part 14 to the mouthpiece.
• FIGS. 14a and 14b offer the advantage that a user can produce his own flavor combinations.
• Fig. 15 an alternative design is shown in which the aroma container 20 is divided into individual segments 20a, 20b and 20c and closed by means of a cover 70 upwards.
• a user can make a free compilation of the individual flavors that are inserted into the individual segments 20a, 20b and 20c and from which a mixture is made.
• FIG. 16 outlines a possibility of attachment of a flavor container 20, which is provided on the lower side with a spring 56.
• circular-cylindrical flavor container 20 has, in addition to the scent hole 72 shown here, a guide 74 which is a groove which has two sections arranged at an angle to each other.
• the first portion 74a runs parallel to the axis of rotation of the circular cylindrical flavor container, whereas the second portion 74b connects to the first portion 74a and into
• a possible associated storage container 12 is shown in Fig. 17 and has similarities to the geometry shown in Fig. 12c with a substantially in the form of a semicircular segment shaped filling opening 60 and a receptacle 66 for the aroma container shown in Fig. 16, wherein the peripheral wall of the receiving space 66 is a projection 76 which is arranged and designed to be moved when inserted within the guide 74.
• the storage container according to FIG. 17 could also be designed such that no bayonet connection between the receiving space 66 and the aroma container 20 is required, since the aroma container is fixed by the placement of a head portion shown in FIG. 17.
• Receiving space 66 moves so that the projection 76 in the second portion 74 b and to the
• Stop surface 74c within the guide 74 extends. Once the projection 76 against the
• the scent hole 72 is in fluid communication with the air channel.
• a separate mouthpiece 16 is shown, in which, as best shown in Fig. 19, a flavor container 20 is directly used.
• Aroma container in this solution need not be interchangeable, since instead of replacing the aroma container, the mouthpiece is replaced as such.
• the hygiene is improved and also reduces the number of items as well as simplifies the use of the drinking device according to the invention.
• any solutions can be used here, as long as there is the required seal between the mouthpiece and the head part of the drinking device.
• Fig. 20a and 20b shows an inventive
• the drinking device 10 which is shown as if the housing is transparent.
• the drinking device 10 consists again of a reservoir 12 and a head part 14.
• a rotatable connection 58 which is shown in the present example as a threaded bolt with lock nut, the head part 14 can be rotated relative to the reservoir in the direction of arrow P.
• the aroma container 20 is inserted in the head part and the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air flows into the transport channel 18b for drinking liquid, which is completely irrelevant to the understanding of this embodiment, since in the same way the air duct 22 is guided parallel to the transport channel 18b to the mouth end 28 could be.
• the portions 18a and 18b of the transport channel for drinking liquid, but also located in the head part air channel 32 are brought into flow communication with the air channel portion 32b, so that In the configuration shown in Fig. 20b, the drinking device is in a ready state. Since the parting plane 78 between the reservoir 12 and the head part 14 is not perpendicular to the cylindrical outer wall of the reservoir 12, but is arranged at an angle to this, changes, as shown in Fig. 20b in comparison to Fig. 20a, the position of the head part 14 between the sealed storage position and the drinking position. In this way, the user can not only be signaled whether the drinking device is in the drinking position, but also an as ergonomic as possible for drinking position are produced.
• a flavor container 20 is used, which is designed as a flavoring ring, which is placed in the immediate vicinity of the mouthpiece 28 on the head part 14.
• a single opening is located at the mouth end 28, namely the transport channel 18 for
• the air channel 22 opens into this just before the mouth end.
• the Transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air parallel to the mouth end 28 to lead it is also possible when using a flavor ring, the Transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air parallel to the mouth end 28 to lead.
• the annularly shaped aroma container 20 is subdivided into different segments 20a, 20b, 20c and 20d, which may contain different aroma strengths or aroma directions.
• the marking 78 on the head part 14 of the container indicates to the user which aroma chamber is in use. If the marking 78 is not aligned with the respective marking 80 on the individual chambers, the connection between the aroma container and the transport channel 18 can also be blocked in the embodiment according to FIGS. 21 and 22, so that a user does not have access via the system according to the invention flavored drinking liquid can take.
• the aroma container could only be frictionally engaged in a corresponding recess in the head part 14, whereby a particularly simple and convenient handling can be made possible for the user.
• Aroma types while drinking the aroma can change, but can also bring the ring in a position in which no flavor is metered and also the air duct 22 is completed to transport aromatized air, so that no air bubbles enter the water, thereby entering the user different mouthfeel can be achieved.
• Drinking device 10 which is an open-topped drinking cup.
• the aroma container 20 is at this point
• the drinking cup as shown in Fig. 23b, the drinking liquid is sucked in from the mouth end 28 (see Fig. 23a), whereby, as shown in Fig. 1, the drinking liquid mixed with air bubbles is sucked.
• a parallel leadership of the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and the air channel 22 for the transport of flavored air is conceivable again.
• FIGS. 24a and 24b show a further embodiment of the invention.
• the peculiarity of this embodiment is that the head part 14 can be screwed onto any serving as a reservoir 12 bottle. In the head part 14 is permanently installed on
• Aroma tank which via an unillustrated air duct 22, the flavored air either parallel to the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid transported to the mouth end 28 or, according to the schematic representation in Fig. 1 just before the mouth end 28 opens into the transport channel 18.
• a conventional bottle with a pure drinkable liquid which can be reconfigured in any way via the replacement of the head part 14 with the suction tube 80 connected thereto.
• This embodiment is advantageous above all in regions in which the tap water is not drinkable due to insufficient quality, so that the consumers buy pure water as a drinking liquid, which over the
• Bottle attachment can be modified to any flavor.
• the drinking device 10 according to the invention consists of designed as an open glass reservoir 12 and to be arranged in the reservoir drinking straw 82, which in itself the components and functionality of the suction tube 80, the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid and due to the ring around the straw around Aroma container 20 and the air channel 22 for transporting aromatized air in it.
• the drinking straw 82 can be combined with any storage containers 12, wherein the aroma container 20 is preferably not interchangeable but firmly connected to the drinking straw.
• FIGS. 26a and 26b show an embodiment in which the illustrated head part 12 of the drinking device 10, not shown, can be toppled upside down while drinking, as the consumers e.g. in drinking devices using a
• Embodiment reduces the number of individual components, whereby the production is simplified and the assembly of the system is shortened.
• the consumer of conventional systems is used to tilting his bottle.
• the head part 14 shown in FIGS. 26a and 26b can be connected to a storage vessel 12 via the illustrated thread 84 or another possibility of attachment, it being important to ensure that the connection prevents liquid leakage.
• a check valve 85 may be attached, as shown for example in Fig. 4a and 4b.
• the aroma container is shown by way of example as a wide ring 83, the functional principle of which corresponds to the aroma container 20.
• the aroma depot is fluidly connected via the air channel 22.
• a sliding, not shown here mouthpiece must be pushed, which corresponds to a conventional mouthpiece of sports water bottles and must be made of a substantially flexible material.
• the mouthpiece By moving in the direction K, the mouthpiece, not shown, opens and closes the drinking device 10.
• FIGS. 27a and 27b is a preferred embodiment of the invention
• Drinking device shown with a change of the liquid channel 18 on the mouthpiece 16 in the head part 14 of the drinking device. It allows a change in the pressure conditions in the liquid-air mixture through the taper 19 shown in Fig. 27a or the extension 23 of the channel shown in Fig. 27b at the mouthpiece 16. This changes the shape and size of the air bubbles and creates a more pleasant drinking experience.
• FIGS. 28a and 28b A further preferred embodiment of the improvement of the drinking device 10 is shown in FIGS. 28a and 28b.
• the preferred embodiment of the improvement according to the invention provides that the fluid channel 18 in the reservoir 12 of the drinking device 10 tapers (FIG. 28a-21) or widened (FIG. 28b-25). This allows a constant or changed suction pressure at different filling heights of the reservoir 12.
• the required suction pressure is essentially due to the hydrostatic heavy pressure of the fluid and the friction loss of the fluid on the wall of the fluid passage 18.
• the hydrostatic gravitational pressure is according to Pascal's law invariably directly proportional to the filling level in the reservoir 12 and influenced for the drinker noticeably the expended suction pressure.
• this negative change can be compensated in part or in whole and thus the drinking feeling can be improved.
• the pressure differences can be reduced by not shown here use of a substantially wide and shallow storage container.
• FIG. 29 Another, shown in Fig. 29, preferred embodiment of the drinking device 10 provides that the air duct 22 is tapered in the head part 14 only at one point 27 and the air duct otherwise has a wider cross-section. This has the advantage that, despite a required small cross-section, in particular diameter, of the air duct 14, easier producibility and easier cleanability are provided. For example, in the embodiment shown by way of example in FIG. 29, liquid passing from the liquid channel 18 into the air channel 22 can easily enter the
• FIGS. 30a and 30b A further preferred embodiment is shown schematically in FIGS. 30a and 30b.
• the head part 14 is substantially axially symmetric in two parts 14 a and 14 b divisible. Both parts 14a, 14b contain on the inside in each case a part of the air channel 22 and the liquid channel 18, which give the required for the drinking device channels when joining the two halves 14a, 14b along the arrow direction C positively.
• a fastening device 29, which is shown by way of example as a ring in the preferred embodiment in FIGS. 30a and 30b, can be held together reversibly by a displacement in the direction of arrow D on the two parts 14a and 14b.
• the divisible head part 14 is shown in the drinking position.
• the recess 66 for the aroma reservoir 20, not shown is also cylindrical.
• a production of the head part 14 of a substantially flexible material a production of the head part 14 of a substantially flexible material, a
• FIG. 1 Another preferred embodiment of the divisible header 14 is shown in FIG.
• the recess 66 for the aroma reservoir 20 is also possible in the head part.
• the integration into the interior of the head part has the advantage that the aroma reservoir 20 is not visible in the closed state of the head part from the outside and the aroma reservoir thus must be designed, among other things, less expensive and volatilization of the flavor from the aroma reservoir is slowed down during storage.
• the insertion of the aroma reservoir is done by joining the two parts 14a and 14b along the direction of the arrow E.
• the two parts of the head part 14 are held together by a mechanism not shown here.
• FIGS. 32a, 32b and 32c A further embodiment for optimizing a drinking device according to the invention is shown by way of example in FIGS. 32a, 32b and 32c.
• a preferred embodiment in Fig. 32a the head portion 14 of a drinking device is shown, which includes a fluid channel 18 and an air channel 22.
• Fig. 32a while a uniform over the entire length shaped liquid channel is shown.
• FIG. 32b a preferred embodiment of a head part 14 of a drinking device is shown in FIG. 32b, in which the liquid channel 18 at the connection point of the liquid channel 18 with the air channel 22 has a smaller diameter than at the remaining points. This will be the
• Drinking device boosts. As a result, the user, for example, less strong on the Drinking are sucked, which improves the drinking. This effect, known as the Venturi effect, significantly improves the drinking device.
• a further preferred embodiment is shown by way of example in FIG. 32c and provides that a liquid channel 18 and an air channel 22 are arranged in the head part 14 of the drinking device, wherein at the connection point of the two channels at least one of the two channels with respect to the cross section of the other regions of the respective Channels is extended. This also allows a changed drinking feeling of the user of the drinking device.
• FIGS. 33a and 33b A further preferred embodiment of the head part 14 is shown by way of example in FIGS. 33a and 33b and provides that the air duct 22 is interrupted by a chamber 87 which is designed substantially as a recess on the outer wall of the fluid duct 18.
• the interruption of the air channel through a chamber 87 is designed so that at the contact point of the removable riser 18 for the drinking liquid (liquid channel) and the air channel 22, a recess in the head part 14 of the drinking device is provided.
• the air channel 22 opens from the aroma container 20 at an upper position in the chamber 87.
• the chamber 87 is used in the best possible way. Due to the different high positions of the inlet and the outlet opening of the air channel 22 in and out of the chamber 87, among other things, a drainage of drinking liquid is made possible back into the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid.
• the arrangement of the chamber 87 at the point of contact between the head part 14, which may be made for example of a substantially elastic material, and the transport channel 18 for drinking liquid facilitates cleaning after the
• FIG. 33a and Fig. 33b show the embodiment of the head part 14 of the drinking device according to Fig. 33a in section, whereby the positions of the chamber 87 and the entry point of the air channel 22 and the exit point from the chamber 87 in the continuation of the air duct 22b is illustrated.

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