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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Dean Frederick Rushmore, Marysville, OH (US);
Lawrence G Carns, Plain City, OH (US);
Assignee:
Nestec S.A., Vevey, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23F / ; A23F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426590 ; 426594 ; 426386 ; 426388 ;
Abstract
A process for incorporating an aroma-containing substrate into a beverage powder. The beverage powder is transported in the form of a moving bed and caused to fall in an annular curtain into a filler for filling the beverage powder into containers. As the beverage powder falls in the annular curtain, the aroma-containing substrate is sprayed onto the beverage powder from a position above the moving bed. This provides a substantially homogenous distribution of the aroma-containing substrate in the beverage powder in the filler.