Packaged Bottle Beverage Having An Ingredient Release Closure With Improved Additive Release And Method And Apparatus Thereof
AssigneeGeorgia Crown Distributing Co.
InventorJAMES CLAYTON BELL
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Abstract
A packaged bottled beverage has a base component of the beverage in a container under vacuum separate from an additive in a sealed compartment of an ingredient release closure. Upon opening the sealed compartment, suction is created forcing the additive to quickly and thoroughly exit the ingredient release closure, a region of relatively higher pressure, and flow into the base component in the container, a region of relatively lower pressure.
Claims12
A packaged bottled beverage comprising:
- a. a beverage comprising a base component and an additive;
- b. a container comprising an opening for receiving a closure and a vessel containing said base component;
- c. an ingredient release closure comprising a sealed compartment containing said additive, a release mechanism for dispensing the additive, and attaching means for attachment to said opening of said container;
- d. said attaching means of said ingredient release closure attached to said opening of said container to form a packaged bottled beverage,
- wherein said base component is contained under vacuum in said container.
A method for improving delivery of an additive contained within a sealed compartment of an ingredient release closure into a base component of a beverage contained within a vessel of a packaged bottled beverage comprising the steps of:
- a. providing a container comprising (i) an opening for receiving a closure and (ii) a vessel containing a base component of a beverage;
- b. providing a closure comprising (i) a sealed compartment containing an additive, (ii) a release mechanism for dispensing said additive, and (iii) attaching means for attachment to said opening of said container;
- c. providing vacuum means;
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- d. attaching said closure to said opening of said container and creating a vacuum with said vacuum means to form a packaged bottled beverage having said container under vacuum.
A container closing apparatus in a filling plant configured to attach an ingredient release closure onto a container to provide for a sealed container under vacuum comprising:
- a. an inlet being configured and disposed to permit containers to enter a container closing apparatus;
- b. at least one capper mechanism being configured to attach an ingredient release closure onto a container to form a sealed container;
- c. a container holding apparatus being configured and disposed to receive and hold said containers to permit ingredient release closures to be attached onto containers by said capper mechanism;
- d. a means for creating a vacuum in the space inside said container during attachment of said ingredient release closure onto said container;
- e. an outlet being configured and disposed to permit sealed containers to exit said container closing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.