Airtight Preservation System for Effervescent Fluids
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sealing systems for containers fail to prevent gas leakage and contamination of effervescent or volatile fluids during delivery, leading to loss of product properties and complexity in installation and removal.
Innovation Solution
An airtight preservation system with a compact, versatile design that uses a compensation casing and antireflux valves to maintain constant pressure and prevent gas exchange, allowing for easy installation and removal from various container types.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional sealing systems are used for effervescent fluids, then the container can be closed, but gas leakage occurs and contamination happens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary substance (inert gas or vacuum) between the container interior and exterior atmosphere. This intermediary layer acts as a barrier that prevents direct contact between the effervescent fluid and external contaminants while allowing pressure equalization, thereby eliminating gas leakage and contamination issues.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates an inert atmosphere inside the container by filling it with inert gas or maintaining a vacuum. This inert environment prevents reactions between atmospheric gases and the effervescent fluid, thereby preventing contamination and gas leakage while maintaining seal integrity.
2Reliability
If complex sealing systems are used to prevent contamination, then protection is improved, but installation and removal become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The sealing system is divided into separate modular components including a removable cap, valve assembly, and sealing elements. This segmentation allows each component to be independently manufactured and assembled, simplifying installation and removal operations while maintaining effective contamination prevention through proper sealing at each interface.
3Reliability
If strict hygiene laws are complied with, then safety is improved, but sealing requirements become more demanding
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs flexible sealing membranes and thin film barriers that can be easily sterilized and comply with strict hygiene regulations. These flexible sealing elements provide effective contamination prevention while maintaining simplicity in design, allowing for easy sterilization and compliance with safety standards without excessive complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Effectively prevents contamination and maintains product properties by maintaining constant internal pressure and preventing gas exchange, while being adaptable to different container shapes and sizes with easy installation and removal.
Implementation Method 1
The system is such as to arrange, at a variation of the internal volume of the container taken up by the consumer fluid concomitantly to a delivery of said fluid, a proportional flow of substitute fluid into the compensation casing in order to compensate for said internal volume variation, and keep the overall pressure internally to the container at a substantially constant predetermined value
Implementation Method 2
The system comprises a device, preferably of substantially cylindrical shape, internally connected with a case... a plug, connected with the device and having a delivery spout and a through hole... a compensation casing, having an inlet mouth, connected to the system by a connecting manifold internal to the case
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to an airtight preservation system of a consumer fluid within a container, and in particular a system for the preservation of said fluid, typically intended for alimentary consumption, from contamination by contact with outside atmosphere, in particular during the phase of delivery. The system according to the present invention is of easy installation, by virtue of a compact structure applicable to any container size and of an operation marked by utmost rationality.