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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2018
Pepsico, Inc., Purchase, NY (US);
Samuel Chang, Hawthorne, NY (US);
John Eaton, Purchase, NY (US);
Maher Nachawati, Stamford, CT (US);
William Segiet, Bethel, CT (US);
Vasily Abashkin, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Andrey Balanev, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Petr Egoyants, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Mikhail Verbitsky, Stoughton, MA (US);
PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
A beverage dispensing valve may include an inlet to receive carbonated water, a nozzle shell, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage. The nozzle shell may include an aperture open to ambient pressure environment. A method for dispensing a beverage may include flowing carbonated water through an inlet of a beverage dispensing valve, lowering the pressure of the carbonated water sufficient to promote carbon dioxide nucleation, flowing the carbonated water through a chamber vented to environment such that a portion of carbon dioxide nucleated is off-gassed, and introducing a beverage ingredient when the carbonated water reaches a sufficiently low carbonation level. A beverage dispensing nozzle may include an inlet configured to receive carbonated water from a beverage dispensing valve, a nozzle shell including an aperture open to ambient pressure environment, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage.