Apparatus for producing containers, and in particular beverage containers, having a heating device configured to heat plastic parisons, having at least one first transport device, which transports the plastic parisons along a predetermined transport path, a sterilization device configured to sterilize the plastic parisons, and a forming device arranged downstream of the sterilization device, as seen in a transporting direction of the plastic parisons, and configured to form the plastic parisons into plastic containers by the application of a free-flowing medium, wherein said forming device has a transport chamber within which the plastic parisons are transported. The apparatus has an application device configured to apply a free-flowing sterilization medium, at least temporarily, to the transport chamber.

Cost is reduced as a whole. An aseptic filling system 1A includes a heat sterilizer 18 and a filler 2. The heat sterilizer 18 has a heating unit 12, a holding tube 14, a first stage cooling unit 15 and a second stage cooling unit 16. A circulation line 30 composed of a heating-water line 31 and a cooling-water line 32 is connected to the heating unit 12 and the first stage cooling unit 15. A connection line 33 is connected to the cooling-water line 32, and aseptic cooling water in the cooling-water line 32 is sent to the filler through the connection line 33.

An aseptic filling machine capable of performing molding and filling at the same time that has a compact facility size, requires a reduced initial investment, requires a reduced running cost because of its simplified process, and ensures an aseptic condition with reliability, and an aseptic filling method therefor. An aseptic filling machine includes a pre-heating sterilizing portion that sterilizes a preform, a heating portion that heats the sterilized preform, a molding and filling portion that fills the heated preform with a sterilized content under high pressure, thereby molding the preform into a bottle and at the same time filling the preform with the content, and a sealing portion that seals the bottle filled with the content. Before the aseptic filling machine starts operating, each portion is sterilized. During operation of the aseptic filling machine, aseptic air is supplied to each portion to maintain the aseptic condition.

Disclosed is an apparatus for making freshly squeezed orange juice, comprising a rotatory basket, a conveying guide device, a juice extractor, a water supply tank, a high pressure water pump, a supercharging device, a spraying and conveying pipeline, a spray pipeline, a spray head, a movable filter mesh, an orange juice collection funnel, a filling control valve, a filling ellipsoid-shaped vessel, a filling and conveying pipeline, a high pressure air pump, an air treatment and purification device, a high pressure gas conveying pipeline, a bottle, a bottling container, a bottle guiding device, a bottle conveying mechanism, a bottle transverse-conveying mechanism, a bottle inlet position detection device, a bottle filling position detection device, a bottle capping position detection device, a filling position and liquid level detection device, a bottle cap locking detection device, an automatic capping mechanism, a liquid recovery guiding device, a liquid recovery bucket, a finished product receiving device, a UV sterilization device, a refrigerating system, a thermal insulation cavity and a control center.

The embodiments disclose a method including bottling alcoholic beverages with selected ingredients including alcohol neutral spirits, alcohol and whisky, beer, wine, ingredients to add flavors and nutritional additive ingredients to benefit the health of an alcoholic beverage drinker, wherein a selection of alcohols includes vodka, tequila, gin, rum, brandy and other alcoholic spirits, wherein a selection of ingredients to add flavors includes flavorings including fruit flavorings, an artificial sweetener, and natural sweetener, wherein a selection of nutritional additive ingredients includes vitamins, minerals, fulvic acid, humic acid, ulmic acid and a purified and sanitized black water with humic acid and fulvic acid molecules in a mixed solution, and wherein bottling includes a bottling electronic monitoring, at least one control network, at least one bottling quality control process and a bottling labeling and packaging process and devices.

In a method of producing an anti-microbial extract, gesho matter is ground to a medium coarseness to form gesho particles. An amount of ethanol sufficient to dissolve a predetermined amount of soluble gesho material is added to the gesho particles. The ethanol and gesho particles are agitated sufficiently to maintain the gesho particles in suspension for a predetermined amount of time, thereby generating a gesho extract/ethanol solution. The gesho extract/ethanol solution is vacuum filtered after the agitating step, thereby separating the gesho extract/ethanol solution from the gesho particles. The gesho extract/ethanol solution is concentrated so as to generate a viscous gesho liquid. The viscous gesho liquid is vacuum dried until the anti-microbial extract has a predetermined dryness. A drink includes a carbonated beverage dispensed in a bottle and an amount of gesho extract sufficient to act as a preservative of the drink.

In a method of making a drink, a first predetermined quantity of a sweetener phase containing a base salt is dispensed into a bottle. A second predetermined quantity of an acidic aqueous phase is dispensed to the bottle. The bottle is sealed with a substantially airtight seal within a predetermined amount of time after the first predetermined quantity and the second predetermined quantity has been dispensed into the bottle. A fortified drink includes a first predetermined quantity of a sweetener phase, a second predetermined quantity of an acidic aqueous phase, a predetermined quantity of gesho extract and a pharmaceutically effective amount of an additive.

A preform (31) is sterilized by a preform sterilizer (11). The preform (31) is blow-molded by a blow-molding device (13) to manufacture a container (30). Next, the container (30) is filled with a culture medium by a filling device (20) without sterilizing the container (30) by a container sterilizer (15), and the container (30) is plugged by a plugging device (21). Thereafter, it is verified how much microorganism survive or propagate in the culture medium in the container (30). A degree of sterilization in the container sterilizer (15) is adjusted on the basis of a verification result.

A beverage aseptic filling system (10) for both a carbonated beverage and a non-carbonated beverage includes a raw material liquid preparation unit (46) that prepares a raw material liquid, a beverage sterilization unit (41) that sterilizes a beverage, a beverage filling unit (20) that fills a container (30) with a beverage, and a switching valve (47) provided between the beverage sterilization unit (41) and the beverage filling unit (20). A first filling line (50A) is provided between the switching valve (47) and the beverage filling unit (20), and the switching valve (47) is connected to a second filling line (50B), in which a beverage cooling unit (43) for cooling a beverage and a carbonated beverage production unit (44) for injecting carbon dioxide gas into a beverage are disposed. The switching valve (47) supplies a beverage to either one of the first filling line (50A) and the second filling line (50B) selectively.

The present disclosure relates to a container treatment system for the treatment of containers, such as bottles, in the beverage processing industry, comprising a clean room and a container treatment machine arranged therein with at least one exchangeable component, where the container treatment system comprises a robot which is arranged in the clean room and is designed to exchange said exchangeable component, and a corresponding method.