An improved process and apparatus for making carbonated beverages in which water is mixed with a syrup and the resulting mixture is carbonated and filled into containers in a filling line, the improvement is the following: a sample of beverage is continuously removed before the beverage is filled into containers and then the sample is passed into a cell of a photometric analyzer and the concentration of syrup is photometrically measured which generates a signal; the signal is fed to a process controller which compares the signal to a signal stored in the controller having been generated by the photometric analyzer of an analysis of a sample of a standard beverage containing a predetermined level of syrup concentration and precisely determines the deviation of syrup concentration of the sample from the standard; a trim amount of water is added to the beverage to control the syrup concentration of the beverage to the concentration level of the standard; and the beverage is passed through a static-in-line mixer to provide thorough mixing of the beverage and then the beverage is filled into containers.
申请公布号
US4987083(A)
申请公布日期
1991.01.22
申请号
US19880195608
申请日期
1988.05.18
申请人
APPLE, GLENN D.;SALTZMAN, ROBERT S.;SENNET, STEWART W.
发明人
APPLE, GLENN D.;SALTZMAN, ROBERT S.;SENNET, STEWART W.