1596 results about "Liquid food" patented technology

Heated or cooled dishwasher safe dishware and drinkware are provided. The dishware and drinkware can be a plate or mug with a dishwasher safe body having a food or beverage receiving portion and a heating or cooling system. The heating or cooling system can have a heating or cooling element that heats or cools the receiving portion of the body. The heating or cooling system can optionally have a power storage element connected to the heating or cooling element, a charging module operatively connected to the power storage element, and/or a wireless power receiver operatively connected to the charging module and configured to transmit power thereto to charge the power storage device. The heating or cooling system is operable to actively heat or cool at least a portion of the body to maintain the solid or liquid food in a heated or cooled state for an extended period of time.

A tamper-evident rigid plastic food container system wherein the outer periphery of the mating surfaces of the lid and tray are permanently bonded together after the food product has been placed in the tray, a set of perforated rows at an inner periphery, the interconnect of which needs to be torn into order to open the lid. Intentional, inadvertent or malicious ingress into the container can only be made by tearing at the perforations thereby evidencing the potential tampering and contamination of the packaging contents. The lid and tray edges may further include mechanical interference fits, including snap-fit grips that may be of the releaseably lockable kind to permit sealing, release and re-sealing multiple times without deterioration in reliability, and which can further prevent or minimize leakage of liquid food product.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional printer with a replaceable nozzle. The three-dimensional printer comprises a three-dimensional adjusting mechanism, and the printing nozzle which performs three-dimensional printing under the adjustment of the three-dimensional adjusting mechanism, wherein the printing nozzle comprises a nozzle bottom plate, a nozzle thermal preservation sleeve which is fixed on the nozzle bottom plate and is provided with a printing through hole and a positioning notch, a material tube which is radially clamped on the nozzle bottom plate, and a linear stepping motor; the material tube is axially clamped in the positioning notch through a material tube pressing plate which is in sliding fit with the nozzle bottom plate; a piston presser used for pushing a piston in a first material tube is fixed at the output end of a lead screw of the motor. When materials in the material tube are used up or the materials are needed to be replaced, the printing nozzle is controlled to automatically replace the material tube, and a three-dimensional object consisting of multiple materials can be printed. The piston is driven to be extruded by adopting the linear stepping motor, thrust is high and can be accurately controlled, and the blockage of the nozzle is avoided. According to the printer, liquid foods and multiple liquid materials such as gel and ceramic powder can be printed.

Packaging laminate for packages for liquid foods having excellent liquid and oxygen gas barrier properties in which all included layers are biodegradable. The packaging laminate includes at least one liquidtight layer (11, 13) of homo or copolymers of monomers selected from a group consisting of lactic acid, glycol acid, lactide, glycolide, hydroxy butyric acid, hydroxy valeric acid, hydroxy caproic acid, valerolactone, butyrolactone and caprolactone, as well as an oxygen gas barrier layer (12) of ethylene vinyl alcohol, polyvinyl alcohol, starch or starch derivatives. The oxygen gas barrier layer is preferably applied by a dispersion coating process. The layers may be laminated directly to one another or indirectly by means of interjacent adhesive layers. The packaging laminate may also include a core layer of, for example, paper or paperboard, or a biopolymer. The invention also realises a method of producing the biodegradable packaging laminate according to the invention.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional printer for printing liquid materials. The three-dimensional printer comprises a three-dimensional adjusting mechanism, and a printing sprayer which performs three-dimensional printing under adjustment of the three-dimensional adjusting mechanism, wherein the printing sprayer comprises a nozzle driving motor, a tube outer sleeve, a tube sleeved in the tube outer sleeve; a charging hole and a sprayer which is fixed at the other end of the tube outer sleeve are arranged on one side at the bottom end of the tube; a nozzle is arranged on the sprayer; a feeding hole which is mutually opposite to the charging hole, a tube heating sleeve which is sleeved on the outer wall of the tube outer sleeve and is used for heating the tube outer sleeve and the tube, a nozzle heating sleeve used for heating the nozzle, and a hopper used for containing a printed material are arranged on one side of the sprayer; and the hopper is mutually connected with the feeding hole through a pipeline with a feeding control valve. The three-dimensional printer is stable in jet, the food materials can be treated according to a food material temperature regulation process, materials can be automatically supplemented, the ejected material can be rapidly cooled and deposited, the three-dimensional printer is high in precision, sanitary and convenient, and chocolate, cream, jam and multiple liquid food materials can be printed.

A system and method for dispensing fluids is introduced. A preferred embodiment comprises a sealed tank, a bag containing fluid inside the sealed tank, an outlet for dispensing the liquid in the bag, and a pressure generating device to create pressure in the sealed tank.

The invention relates to a device (1) for preparing a foamy liquid food from a capsule (2) containing a dose of food soluble substance, an entry side (22) adapted to be traversed by a flow of water entering the capsule, a discharge side (21) adapted to be traversed by a flow of beverage exiting the capsule, wherein it comprises water supply means (32) to provide water within the capsule and beverage and foam conditioning means (12) adapted to engage against the discharge side to hold pressure within the capsule so that the soluble substance can thoroughly mix with water and entrap gas within the capsule to dispense a foamy beverage. The invention also relates to a capsule for preparing the liquid food.

A machine for the treatment of liquid and semi-liquid food mixtures comprises a mixture whipping and freezing/heating tank (3), a circuit (6) for cooling and/or heating basic products of which the mixture consists, comprising a compressor (7) driven by an electric motor (18), and a mixer (4) rotating inside the tank (3) to mix the basic products. The machine also comprises a control unit (11) for the speed of rotation of the compressor (7) electric motor (18), for regulating the compressor operating speed and varying the thermal power supplied by the compressor (7) according to at least the quantity of mixture treated.

The present invention relates to an on-line method and a flow system as well as a cuvette for carrying out IR spectrometry for analysis of liquid food products, possibly containing dissolved gases, in a process line in a liquid food product processing plant, especially a dairy processing milk and milk products. A liquid sample is extracted from the process line to a measuring branch, the sample is thermostated and passed to a measurement cuvette. The IR-absorbance spectrum is measured, e.g. in the MID-IR or NIR-range. In order to obtain an on-line monitoring of the process line the liquid food sample is extracted directly from the process line into the measurement branch, in which the pressure is maintaining at least as high as in the adjacent process line. The high pressure ensures that dissolved air will stay dissolved in the liquid food. Before each new sample the measurement branch and cuvette are flushed by high flow rates with a part of the new sample to clean the cuvette. The measurement cuvette has strong windows, preferably diamond windows to stand a high pressure and high flow rates. The on-line system is arranged to carry out eg. 120 measurements per hour.

Liquid food dispensing device (1) for dispensing hot or cold beverages or other liquid foods without using any mixing or whipping chambers comprising at least one liquid component source (30, 31) and a diluent source (18), a delivery device and at least one diluent nozzle and one food component nozzle wherein the delivery device and diluent and food component nozzles are configured for ejecting at least one stream (6a, 6b) of diluent at a predetermined spatial configuration inside a container (10) and within a velocity range effective to create turbulence and mix the food component so to produce the food product such as the hot or cold beverage.

The invention relates to a complex food additive. The complex food additive is compounded with various raw materials which are compounded together by adopting a spray drying process so that the food additives with various physical forms can be used to the utmost extent, and the use limitation of liquid food additives in the process of compounding the food additive is avoided; simultaneously, the complex food additive can compound the food additives with various functions together as much as possible to meet the requirements of customers on various performances of the food additives. The complex food additive can be customized according to specific requirements of the customers, can be applied to various foods such as dairy foods, beverages, repasts, and the like, and endow products with perfect states, mouthfeels and functional characteristics.

A device for maintaining ingredients separately within a container, of the type having a removable container cap applied on a neck with a central opening, has a sub-container body mounted in the container neck which is formed with a proximate end having screw threads which can be engaged with internal screw threads in the container neck for holding them securely together to allow the ingredients to be shaken out of the sub-container body and mixed with fluid in the container. The sub-container body can have inner divider walls forming multiple compartments with respective orifices for dispensing ingredients selectively from the compartments. The sub-container body may be sealed to the underside of the cap with a sealing film, or seated on the neck rim and held by the cap. In one version, the proximate end of the sub-container body has a protruding shape with inclined walls for guiding it into the neck opening. In other versions, the sub-container body is formed integrally with the container cap, or is formed as an annular ring shape carried between inner and outer flanges of the cap. These improved devices allow viscous or powdered ingredients to be mixed by shaking with fluid in the container without risk of spilling or splashing outside the container.

The present invention is a method for pasteurization or sterilization of liquid food products using high pressure in a continuous or semi-continuous flow. The invention involves pressurizing and depressurizing the liquid product for a sufficient duration of time to achieve a 2.5 log cycle reduction in microorganisms. The uniform application of high pressure to the liquid food product coupled with a controlled pH and temperature of the liquid food product, the setting and maintaining the pressurizing media temperature, and the rapid depressurization resulting in cellular disruption of the microorganisms within the liquid product inactivating or destroying the microorganisms, such as vegetative microorganisms, while preserving the functionality of the liquid product.

A heat-sealing device moves a tube-shaped packaging material through operation of a seal jaw and counter jaw under the liquid surface of liquid food, and heat-seals a seal zone containing a cutting predetermined zone in the tube transverse direction. The tube-shaped packaging material is formed from the packaging material web, and is filled up with liquid food. The operation surface of the seal jaw facing the seal zone has a substantially flat surface. The heat-sealing device has a removal/mixture mechanism on the operation surface of the counter jaw. The removal/mixture mechanism removes seal prevention impurity from this seal zone and/or mixes the impurity with the melting/softening packaging material in this seal zone. Thus, even if the packaging laminated material is covered with an oxide, residual substances, or impurities, the heat-sealing device reduces the bad influence of the seal prevention impurity.

The invention relates to a device for delivering a beverage into a thermoplastic container formed from a heated preform (110), the preform being approximately cylindrical and positioned in a mould, characterized in that it includes injection means for injecting at least one beverage into a recess in the preform so as to promote expansion of the preform inside the mould, the mould defining the shape of the container, said injection means comprising an injection head (18) designed to inject at least one beverage through a mouth of the recess, said injection head being integrated into the mould.

An active temperature control module can be used with drinkware and plateware devices. The drinkware can be a mug made of metal, and optionally coated with a ceramic material. The active thermal control module can optionally be removably coupleable to a surface of the drinkware or plateware device. The module can include at least one heating element that can thermally communicate with a surface of the drinkware or plateware device to thereby effect heat transfer through the base to food stuff (e.g., a solid food, a liquid food) in the drinkware or plateware device. The module can include at least one sensor configured to sense a parameter of the foodstuff, and at least one power storage element configured to provide power to the at least one heating element. The module can include control circuitry configured to control operation of the one or more heating elements, and a transceiver configured to transmit operating information of the module to a remote electronic device and to receive operating instructions from the remote electronic device. Optionally, the module can include a heat transfer pack that can thermally communicate with the at least one heating element, and which can be interposed between the at least one heating element and a surface of the drinkware or plateware device.

A method and device for hygienically delivering a liquid food to or from a food or beverage dispenser by delivering a flow of liquid food through an outlet positioned at a distance of all surfaces of the dispenser and by frequently cleaning the outlet with a flow of cleaning liquid directed onto the external surfaces demarcating the outlet to eliminate the liquid and solid food residue. The device may include a connection fitment with an elongated food delivery member which is configured to connect to a cleaning chamber of the dispenser. The device can be easier and more conveniently cleaned and/or sanitized enabling the dispensing of microbial sensitive food products such as milk concentrate and the like.

The present invention provides a feeding system for dispensing liquid food to a bird. The system includes a container of concentrated sugar solution that is dilutable with water at a selected dilution ratio of concentrate to water and a feeder to be supported by a support structure. The feeder includes a reservoir having a selected volume and an index marking correlating to a selected partial volume whereby the ratio of the partial volume to the difference between the selected volume and the partial volume is equal to the dilution ratio for the concentrate. The base of the feeder mounts to the reservoir and has at least one feed outlet to make the liquid in the reservoir available to the bird. The present invention is also directed to a method of providing nectar solution to hummingbirds.

The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus (10) for producing a packaging container for liquid foods from a packaging container blank (40) by permanently uniting and sealing at least two of its edges (61, 65) with the aid of a hot melt glue, the hot melt glue being applied along one of the two edges with the aid of a heated applicator roller (11). The circumferential surface (21) of the hot roller is preferably made of hardened steel with a coating (22) countersunk in a groove int he surface along the circumference of the circumferential surface, the coating possessing good slippage properties in relation to the hot melt glue and the coating being of a width which corresponds to the region intended for application. A counter roller (14) acts on the opposite side of the packaging laminate blank against the applicator roller for controlling the outflow of the applied hot melt glue strand. How melt glue is applied to the applicator roller by means of a heated nozzle (12) and the surplus which is not transferred to the packaging laminate blank is scrapped off from the applicator roller by means of a doctor blade (15). The hot melt glue is preferably an ethylene vinyl acetate based composition with a high melting point and high viscosity which is applied at least approx. 180° C.

A heating and cooling cup includes a cup body, a stirring device, a heating and cooling chip, and a heat sink module. A heat conductive block is disposed under the cup body, the heat conductive block abuts against the heating and cooling chip, the stirring device has a stirring rod disposed in the cup body, and a bottom surface of the heating and cooling chip abuts against a heat conductive block of the heat sink module. A temperature of the cup body is changed through the heating and cooling chip, for cooling or heating liquid food in the cup body, and the liquid food is forced to generate convection through the stirring rod for accelerating a temperature variation process.