Bulk ingredient batching
AssigneeNiagara Bottling, LLC
InventorsAbhishek Shukla, Steven Kuo-Chuan Chen
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Abstract
A production line for bottling a liquid product includes an ingredient preparation and batching system having a pre-mix station with a holding tank configured to store a hydrated ingredient, and a batch tank fluidly coupled to the pre-mix station and configured to receive a predetermined quantity of the hydrated ingredient from the holding tank. A bottling line is fluidly coupled to the batch tank and configured to receive a batch of the liquid product from the batch tank and dispense the batch of the liquid product into a plurality of containers.
Claims12
A production line for bottling a liquid product, the production line comprising:
- an ingredient preparation and batching system including:
- a pre-mix station including a holding tank configured to store a hydrated ingredient, and
- a batch tank fluidly coupled to the pre-mix station and configured to receive a predetermined quantity of the hydrated ingredient from the holding tank;
- and
- a bottling line fluidly coupled to the batch tank and configured to receive a batch of the liquid product from the batch tank and dispense the batch of the liquid product into a plurality of containers.
A method of preparing a batch of a liquid product for a bottling line, the method comprising:
- hydrating a major ingredient at a pre-mix station to produce a hydrated major ingredient;
- storing the hydrated major ingredient in a holding tank of the pre-mix station;
- conveying the hydrated major ingredient from the holding tank to a batch tank;
- and
- combining the hydrated major ingredient with a minor ingredient within the batch tank to produce a batch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.