Beverage supplying apparatus
AssigneeFuji Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorMasami Hashimoto
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Abstract
A beverage supplying apparatus that supplies a beverage into a beverage container, includes: an ingredient storage unit to store a beverage ingredient; a compressed gas supplying means to supply compressed gas to the ingredient storage unit and pressurize the beverage ingredient; and a beverage supplying means to, when receiving a supply command, allow the pressurized beverage ingredient to be supplied to a nozzle, and supply compressed nitrogen gas to the nozzle, so that the nitrogen gas and the beverage ingredient are mixed and stirred at the nozzle and the beverage is discharged to the beverage container through the nozzle.
Claims7
A beverage supplying apparatus that supplies a beverage into a beverage container, the beverage supplying apparatus comprising:
- an ingredient storage unit configured to store a beverage ingredient;
- a compressed gas supplying means configured to supply compressed gas to the ingredient storage unit and pressurize the beverage ingredient;
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- a beverage supplying means having a nozzle and configured to, when receiving a supply command,
- allow the pressurized beverage ingredient to be supplied to the nozzle, and
- supply compressed nitrogen gas to the nozzle, so that the nitrogen gas and the beverage ingredient are mixed and stirred at the nozzle creating a nitrogen gas containing extracted beverage which is discharged to the beverage container through the nozzle,
- wherein the nozzle includes a beverage orifice extending along a vertical direction, depressurizing the nitrogen gas containing extracted beverage and jetting out the depressurized nitrogen gas containing extracted beverage downward from a lower end exit of the beverage orifice, and a collision wall provided to face the lower end exit so that the nitrogen gas containing extracted beverage, jetted out from the lower end exit, collides with the collision wall and is dispersed in a horizontal direction and dropped down to a discharge port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.