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US 2014/0175121 A1Published application
Beverage Dispensing System Using Highly Concentrated Beverage Syrup
AssigneeIMI Cornelius Inc.
InventorGeorge Harold Hoover
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Abstract
A fountain beverage dispenser for constituting a beverage by mixture of a beverage syrup and a diluent for the syrup is characterized by use of a highly concentrated beverage syrup supply and at least one diluent and syrup blending station for diluting the highly concentrated syrup with diluent before the diluted syrup is mixed with diluent in the final mixture of syrup and diluent delivered to a dispensing nozzle.
Claims16
A method for dispensing a fountain beverage comprising:
- dispensing a highly concentrated sugar-based syrup supply containing a sugar-based beverage syrup at more than approximately 65° brix;
- mixing said highly concentrated sugar-based syrup supply with a first diluent, in close proximity to said dispensing of said highly concentrated sugar-based syrup supply, to a selected diluent to syrup ratio such that the syrup/diluent ratio maintains the acidity level to restrict the growth of organisms;
- mixing in a nozzle a second diluent supply with the syrup/diluent to further dilute the sugar-based syrup and first diluent mixture to create a beverage.
A method for dispensing a fountain beverage comprising:
- dispensing a highly concentrated sugar-free syrup supply containing a sugar-free beverage syrup at greater than a 15 to 1 water to syrup ratio;
- first mixing a first diluent with said sugar-free beverage syrup in a selected water to syrup ratio to no less than an acidity level to restrict the growth of organisms;
- second mixing a second diluent at a nozzle to further dilute the sugar-free beverage syrup and first diluent mixture to create a beverage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.