Bar Gun Nozzle Assembly Preventing Flavor Carryover
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bar gun assemblies face issues with flavor carryover and inefficient mixing of soda water and syrups, particularly due to pungent flavors migrating across tubes, leading to inconsistent taste in dispensed beverages.
Innovation Solution
A novel bar gun assembly featuring a nozzle design with a core structure and housing that ensures full soda water coverage within the nozzle, a sectored spray head for directed syrup distribution, and a diverter plate for controlled pressure release, along with a fluid-tight coupling mechanism to prevent flavor carryover and excessive foaming.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional nozzle design is used, then the structure is simple, but flavor carryover occurs and mixing is inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The nozzle is divided into multiple functional segments: a spray head with multiple spray holes for syrup distribution, a mixing chamber for fluid interaction, and a nozzle body for structural support. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function optimally while preventing flavor carryover through dedicated flow paths.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the nozzle have specialized properties: the spray head creates a fine spray pattern for efficient mixing, the mixing chamber provides a controlled environment for syrup and soda interaction, and specific surfaces may have coatings or textures optimized for their local function. This local optimization ensures reliable flavor delivery without excessive overall complexity.
2Productivity
If syrup flows directly into the dispensed beverage, then the dispensing process is simple, but excessive foaming occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The syrup is sprayed into the soda stream before the mixture is dispensed, allowing the syrup to be pre-distributed and partially mixed with the soda under controlled conditions. This preliminary mixing action prevents sudden, uncontrolled foaming during dispensing while maintaining efficient delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The mixing chamber acts as an intermediary space between the syrup inlet and the dispensing outlet. Within this chamber, the syrup spray interacts with the soda water flow, allowing controlled mixing and pressure equalization that prevents excessive foaming during the actual dispensing process.
3Speed
If high pressure is used for syrup delivery, then the dispensing speed is fast, but flavor carryover increases
Solution Approach 1:
The high-pressure syrup delivery is segmented into multiple low-pressure spray streams through the spray head with multiple spray holes. This segmentation maintains dispensing speed by delivering syrup quickly through the spray mechanism while reducing the pressure-induced carryover effect that would occur with a single high-pressure stream.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses hydraulic principles to convert high-pressure syrup delivery into a fine spray pattern. The pressure is utilized to atomize the syrup into small droplets that mix efficiently with the soda, maintaining fast dispensing while the distributed spray pattern reduces flavor carryover compared to concentrated high-pressure flow.
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
The solution effectively prevents flavor carryover, ensures consistent flavor profiles, and maintains the perfect ratio of soda water to syrup, providing a more efficient and reliable dispensing system for beverages.
Implementation Method 1
provides a full coverage of water helps prevent flavor carryover... provides a full coverage of soda water flow coating the inner walls of the nozzle housing with soda water
Implementation Method 2
distributes syrup, under pressure, in a directed manner. The direction of the pressurized syrup in a spray pattern... is outward towards an inwardly directing nozzle housing nose
Implementation Method 3
allows a controlled and stayed pressure release through the use of a diverter plate and diverter channels downstream of the initial point of release of soda water into the nozzle, which helps with back pressure and helps with avoiding excessive foaming
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AI summary
A bar gun assembly for receiving a multiplicity of fluid carrying tubes carrying a multiplicity of fluids, for example, flavored syrup and soda water, therein. The bar gun assembly has a handle having a handle body. The handle body is a multiplicity of ports and fluid channels therein. A supply line connector assembly engages the supply lines and the handle body. A backing plate assembly engages openings in the fluid chambers of the handle body to seal fluid therein. A nozzle assembly engages at least some of the fluid channels in the handle and provides for mixing the syrup and the soda water. The nozzle assembly includes walls adapted to substantially coat an inner wall of a nozzle housing with a first fluid and a lower portion of the inner wall with a second fluid.