Apparatus for producing a drink, and the use of the apparatus
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsAnke Sinnema, Simon M. Oversteegen, Peter S. Viet, Bernardus L. Kuiper
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Abstract
A method for producing a drink, for example milk, from mixing a powder formula with a liquid, such as water, in an automated baby-milk machine. The method included preparing a drink concentrate by mixing the amount of formula necessary for the total amount of drink in a certain amount of hot liquid, and adding the right amount of liquid of a certain low temperature to the concentrate in order to reach the end volume of the drink at a safe drinking temperature.
Claims18
A method for producing a drink in a container from mixing a powder formula with a hot liquid having a first temperature, the method comprising acts of:
- storing in a storage reservoir cold liquid having a second temperature which is lower than the first temperature;
- receiving by a heater the cold liquid from the storage reservoir and providing the hot liquid from the heater;
- providing the cold liquid to the container;
- preparing a drink concentrate by mixing an amount of the powder formula necessary for a total amount of drink in a certain amount of the hot liquid;
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- providing the drink concentrate to the container including the cold liquid to reach a drinking temperature between the first temperature and the second temperature,
- wherein the method further comprises one or more of (a) discharging the hot liquid into a mixing unit that comprises an act of cooling the hot liquid by a cooler to provide a cooled liquid to the mixing unit where the preparing act is performed, and (b) discharging the hot liquid by (i) placing the heater in a first state to discharge the hot liquid into the mixing unit where the preparing act is performed, and (ii) placing the heater in a second state to discharge the hot liquid into a return conduit coupled to the storage reservoir.
A method for producing a drink from mixing powder formula with a liquid, the method comprising acts of:
- storing in a liquid reservoir of an automated baby-milk machine a cold liquid at a temperature lower than 60 degrees Celsius;
- heating by a heater of the automated baby-milk machine the cold liquid from the liquid reservoir to form a hot liquid;
- providing the cold liquid to a container;
- preparing a drink concentrate by mixing an amount of the powder formula necessary for an end volume of the drink in an amount of the hot liquid from the heater having a temperature between 60 degrees Celsius and 80 degrees Celsius;
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- providing the drink concentrate to the container for mixing with the cold liquid in order to reach the end volume of the drink at a desired drinking temperature,
- wherein the method further comprises one or more of (a) discharging the hot liquid into a mixing chamber that comprises an act of cooling the hot liquid by a cooler to provide a cooled liquid to the mixing chamber where the preparing act is performed, and (b) discharging the hot liquid by (i) placing the heater in a first state to discharge the hot liquid into the mixing chamber where the preparing act is performed, and (ii) placing the heater in a second state to discharge the hot liquid into a return conduit coupled to the liquid reservoir.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.