Flexible high speed filling line for personalized beverage package mixes

US11312604B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• THE COCA-COLA COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Anish Mehta · Alpharetta, US
• Gregg Carpenter · Marietta, US
• Eric L. Spann · Kennesaw, US
• Mamunur Rahman · Smyrna, US
• Hitesh Patel · Newark, US
• Dinesh C. Patel · Murray, US
• Manuel I. Garcia · Mineral Bluff, US
• Sergey Grey Ivanov · Austell, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 17, 2018
• Grant date: Apr 26, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 11, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67C3/208
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present application provides a filling line for filling a container with one of a number of different beverages. The filling line may include a water circuit with a counter-pressure nozzle to fill the container with carbonated water and one or more micro-ingredient towers with a number of micro-ingredients therein positioned downstream of the counter-pressure nozzle to fill the container with the micro-ingredients.