Beverage filling method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9617136-B2
Application number	US-201314143707-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2013
Priority date	May 20, 2008
Publication date	Apr 11, 2017
Grant date	Apr 11, 2017

Abstract

Only a bottle properly preliminarily heated is sterilized by hydrogen peroxide. Temperature inspection to the bottle is performed while travelling the bottle. During the inspection, a bottle of which temperature does not reach a predetermined temperature is removed and a bottle of which temperature reaches the predetermined temperature is continuously traveled, hydrogen peroxide condensed mist α is blown toward a mouth portion 1 a of the bottle by a spray tube 59 disposed at a predetermined position, and hot air is blown into the bottle from the nozzle while the nozzle 64 following the mouth portion of the bottle. According to such operation, only the bottle properly heated can be sterilized by the hydrogen peroxide, Thereafter, beverage fills the bottle, which is then sealed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A beverage filling method comprising the steps of:
forming a bottle from a heated preform through a blow molding process;
an inspection process for inspecting the bottles;
a sterilization process for blowing hydrogen peroxide mist or gas to the bottle within a time in which heat applied to the preform remains, and
a filling process for filling the bottle with beverage and then sealing the bottle,
wherein all the steps of molding the bottle from…

Assignees

• Dainippon Printing Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hayakawa Atsushi
• Hirooka Takaharu
• Maekawa Takaki
• Takaku Hitoshi

Classifications

• A61L2103/23

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• B65B55/103

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B65B3/022

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B67C7/0073

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B67C3/242 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic