Flexible high speed filling line for personalized beverage package mixes
AssigneeThe Coca-Cola Company
InventorsAnish Mehta, Gregg Carpenter, Eric L. Spann, Mamunur Rahman, Hitesh Patel, Dinesh C. Patel, Manuel I. Garcia, Sergey Grey Ivanov
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Abstract
The present application provides a filling line for filling a container with one of a number of different beverages. The filling line may include a water circuit with a counter-pressure nozzle to fill the container with carbonated water and one or more micro-ingredient towers with a number of micro-ingredients therein positioned downstream of the counter-pressure nozzle to fill the container with the micro-ingredients.
Claims13
A filling line for filling a container with one of a number of different beverages, comprising:
- a water circuit;
- the water circuit comprising a counter-pressure nozzle to fill the container with carbonated water at a higher carbonation level than a capped beverage;
- a sweetener circuit with a sweetener nozzle positioned downstream of the counter-pressure nozzle;
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- one or more micro-ingredient towers with a plurality of micro-ingredients therein positioned downstream of the counter-pressure nozzle and the sweetener nozzle to fill the container with a plurality of micro-ingredients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.