Apparatus for preparing a beverage from water-cooled sterilized water and an instant product
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsMarie Sybien Nijboer, Klaas Kooijker, Joldert Maria Boersma, Fred Fraij, Peter Sofrides Viet
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Abstract
An apparatus for preparing a beverage from water and an instant product includes a water supply system for supplying water, a heating device for sterilizing water by heating it; and a cooling device for cooling water heated in the heating device. The cooling device uses water from the water supply system as cooling-water. The water that is sterilized in the heating device has preferably previously been used in the cooling device as cooling-water. The cooling device includes a counter flow heat exchanger.
Claims17
An apparatus for preparing a beverage from water and an instant product, the apparatus comprising:
- a water supply system for supplying water to a cooling device;
- a heating device for sterilizing water supplied from the cooling device by heating the water supplied from the cooling device;
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- a mixing unit for mixing the instant product with the sterilized water, wherein an outlet of the heating device is connected to an inlet of the cooling device and an inlet of the mixing unit,
- wherein the cooling device is configured to cool water that has been heated in the heating device;
- and wherein the cooling device uses water from the water supply system as cooling-water, and
- wherein a first outlet of the cooling device is connected to an inlet of the heating device, and a second outlet of the cooling device is connected to the mixing unit.
A method for preparing a beverage from water and an instant product, the method comprising the acts of:
- supplying water from a water supply system to a cooling device;
- sterilizing water supplied from the cooling device by heating the water supplied from the cooling device using a heating device;
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- mixing the instant product with the sterilizing water to form the beverage;
- wherein the cooling device is configured to cool water that has been heated in the heating device and wherein the cooling device uses water from the water supply system as cooling-water, and
- wherein an outlet of the heating device is connected to an inlet of the cooling device and an inlet of the mixing unit, and wherein a first outlet of the cooling device is connected to an inlet of the heating device, and a second outlet of the cooling device is connected to the mixing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.