Method and apparatus for the preservation of beverages with pump venting
AssigneeLANXESS Deutschland GmbH
InventorsJonas Burgholz, Erasmus Vogl, Gerhard Sartorius, Axel Kubatz
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Abstract
A device for preserving beverages with a measuring device, is provided which is suitable and intended to determine a flow rate of a liquid flowing through a beverage line, and with a pump device which conveys a preservative, in particular dialkyl dicarbonate, into the beverage line, into the beverage line, the pump device being controllable as a function of a flow rate determined by the measuring device, the device having a venting device for venting the pump device, wherein the venting device has a valve device.
Claims20
An apparatus for preserving beverages, having a measuring device which is suitable and intended for determining a flow rate of a liquid flowing through a beverage line, and having a pump device which conveys a preservative, into the beverage line, wherein the pump device being controllable as a function of a flow rate determined by the measuring device, wherein the apparatus having a venting device for venting the pump device, wherein the venting device has a valve device, wherein a line for conducting venting gases and/or a liquid is connected to the valve device, wherein the apparatus has a measuring vessel for detecting a level of a liquid and/or gaseous medium, wherein the line for conducting the gaseous and/or liquid medium, which is connected to the valve device, opens into the measuring vessel.
A method for preserving beverages, wherein a flow rate of a liquid flowing through a beverage line is determined by means of a measuring device and a preservative is conveyed into the beverage line by means of a pump device, wherein a delivery line opening into the beverage line and the pump device delivering the preservative through this beverage line, and wherein the pump device being controlled as a function of a flow rate determined by the measuring device, wherein the pump device is vented at least temporarily by means of a venting device, wherein this venting being carried out by means of a controlled valve device, wherein a gaseous and/or liquid medium discharged via the valve device is passed into a measuring vessel and the medium discharged via the valve device is analyzed in order to determine whether it is a gaseous or a liquid medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.