Givaudan Corporation

Roche Vitamins Inc.

Norbert Neuner-Jehle

Franz Etzweiler

Christian Montagner

Hansruedi Gygax

An olfactometer has a sniffing port, a sample supply for generating a sample flow constituted by a carrier gas and sample head space from a saturation chamber and for supplying the sample flow to the sniffing port, a carrier gas supply, and mixer for predetermined dilution of the sample flow. The carrier gas supply includes mass flow controllers with variable flow rates disposed before the saturation chamber for providing variable carrier gas flow to the saturation chamber. A multiplicity of capillaries of different diameter connect the mixing means with the sniffing port via individual injectors. A computer may be interphased with the olfactometer to regulate the amount of sample and/or carrier gas in the sample flow.

Computer-controlled olfactometer

For admixing a gaseous substance, especially an odoriferous substance, into a gas stream. The gaseous substance is fed by means of a carrier gas (23) via a line (10) to a mixing chamber (1). The line contains at least one capillary (19), which is arranged in an advancing device (9) with two defined positions. In a first position the capillary extends through an opening (6), into the mixing chamber. In a second position the capillary opens outside of the mixing chamber in a suction removal space (25) surrounding the mixing chamber. Preferably the carrier gas is flowing continuously and suction removal means (26) are provided which remove the carrier gas together with the gaseous substance when the capillary opens in the suction removal space.

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Jona, Switzerland

Norbert Neuner-Jehle