Abstract: A disposable filter cartridge comprising a housing substantially including bottom and an upright side wall, the underside or bottom having one or more holes, said filter cartridges being provided at its top and at least a part of its bottom with filter material or a filter film. At least the filter material for the top is connected to the side wall or a flange-shaped extension thereof by means of a sealed joint. The filter material destined for the underside or bottom of the housing is cup-shaped and is received in the housing of the filter cartridge so as to be immovable.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for withdrawing liquid from a reservoir, such as concentrate container, by means of a water jet device received in a clamping device. The reservoir is provided with an outlet opening having a valve mechanism fitted with a lip seal. The water jet device connects on the one hand to a water supply hose and on the other hand to a drain spout. The method and apparatus are characterized in that the reservoir is a flexible bag fitted with a connector or insert. The bag is received in a reservoir box whose underside has an opening for the passage of the connector or insert, as well as a plurality of passages for receiving the attachment elements of the clamping device.

Abstract: A process for decaffeinating green coffee by extraction of the coffee with water and treatment of the aqueous extract with activated carbon whereby the caffeine is largely absorbed by the activated carbon. The resulting caffeine-loaded activated carbon is then treated with a selected acid whereby the caffeine is largely removed from the activated carbon. The carbon is then washed with water until it has pH in the range of 3 to 6, determined by the standard test method for pH of activated carbon (ASTM D 3838-80). The activated carbon is then ready to be reused more than ten times in the process without further treatment.

Abstract: A process for recovering from caffeine-loaded activated carbon by treatment f the loaded carbon with an acid. According to the present invention, activated carbon is treated with a compound having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is methyl, H or Cl, and R.sub.2 is Cl, OH or phenyl.

Abstract: Mouth-care products containing an oxidoreductase and a combination of an 8-hydroxy-quinoline and a compound yielding zinc ions.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for recovering caffeine from laden acated carbon by treating the laden activated carbon with an organic acid. In order to achieve good extraction efficiencies, on the one hand, and to avoid problems with the flash point, such as with acetic acid, on the other hand, the process according to the invention is characterized by treating the activated carbon with a mixture comprising at least 65% by weight of acetic acid and at least 2% by weight of citric acid.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for dispensing beverage concentrates and preventing concentrate from drying-up. In a beverage dispensing machine, an outlet nipple is provided having a first diameter bore portion and a second bore portion conically flared outward extending away from the first bore portion. The shape of the second bore retains a quantity of concentrate therein after dispensing which prevents ambient air from contacting concentrate in the smaller first bore portion and prevents the concentrate therein from drying-up.

Abstract: This invention relates to measuring the pressure within a vacuum package prising a flexible, gas-tight film. The package is placed within a bell jar in which a vacuum is generated, and the pressure variation is measured as function of the time.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a combination of a case accommodating a flexible ynthetic plastics container or bag having a pouring opening and filled at least partly with liquid. The starting point for forming the case is a blank having such folding lines and cuts that when the blank is folded about the synthetic plastics bag, the latter is automatically fixed in the case being formed. The blank has two rectangular portions, one so-called base portion and a top face portion, which portions are interconnected by a second end face panel. The two edges of the base portion opposite the second end face panel and the top face portion connect with a first end face panel and a third end face panel, respectively. The opposed free edges of the base portion and the top face portion connect with side panels, and at least a part of the end face panels is provided with flaps. The various portions are interconnected by means of folding lines.

Abstract: An apparatus for making one or more consumption units of coffee, comprising coffee container, means for metering a portion of coffee at a metering station immediately prior to use, means for compacting the coffee in a compacting space at a compacting station, as well as means for transferring the coffee from the metering station to the compacting station and furthermore means for transferring the compacted coffee to an extraction unit connected to a hot water source. Extraction is effected more efficiently by compacting the coffee at a pressure on the coffee of about 1,000 kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: This invention concerns an improved process for separating one crystallize component from a liquid containing a plurality of components, which comprises passing a stream of said liquid successively through at least part of a series of zones of successively lower temperatures including the zone of lowest temperature, so as to induce the formation of crystals of said one component in each of said zones, passing the crystals formed in each of said zones in a direction countercurrent to the direction of the stream of liquid through at least part of said zones, including the zone of highest temperature, separating the crystals present in the zone of highest temperature from their mother liquor and recovering at least part of these crystals, separating the crystals in the zone of lowest temperature from their mother liquor and recovering that mother liquor, and recirculating part of said crystals present in one zone, from that zone to a zone of lower temperature.

Abstract: A process for the decaffeination of green coffee beans by the extraction, process stage (a), of soaked green coffee beans with an equilibrium extract of coffee beans, from which extract caffeine has been removed, resulting in caffeine-deficient beans, which are recovered, and an equilibrium extract of the beans, which in a series of successive process stages (b), (c), (d) and (e), is contacted with an adsorbent circulating counter-currently through the same process steps, said adsorbent having a preferential adsorption capacity for caffeine. The equilibrium extract from stage (a) together with solution from stage (e) are contacted in stage (b) with adsorbent from stage (c) with adsorption of caffeine from the solution. The resulting solution is partly returned to stage (a), and partly, in stage (e), contacted with "clean" adsorbent from stage (d). The resulting "clean" solution is contacted, in stage (d) with adsorbent from stage (e) with desorption of caffeine from said adsorbent.

Abstract: A washing column for the continuous separation between a solid chemical fed in a liquid multi-component system, on the one hand, and the mother liquor in which the solid chemical is suspended, on the other. In a cylindrical working space a stationary, straight, plane washing front is maintained in a packed bed of the solid chemical substance between the mother liquor, on the one hand, and a melt of the solid chemical, on the other. According to the invention, the washing column is double-walled to form an enveloping space, which contains a heat insulating medium and can be pressurized to conform to the pressure within the column. This construction permits the use of a relatively thin, glass inner wall of uniform wall thickness and inner surface. This renders the column resistant to corrosive chemicals, reduces the effect of heat exchange with the surroundings, and prevents instabilities in the washing front.

Abstract: Container for transporting and likewise dispensing liquids, provided with a eceptacle having the shape of a flexible plastics bag with a discharge spout, provided in a more rigid, supporting and enveloping box, a so-called bag-in-box package. It can be brought from a transport position, in which the flexible liquid bag with attached discharge spout is enclosed protectively in the enveloping box, in an operating position wherein, with avoidance of spilling of liquid through pressure on bag and spout, the liquid bag is likewise enclosed in the box, however the discharge spout extends in the container in such a way that it can be operatively combined with an operating mechanism disposed in a beverage vending machine, in order to dispensingly pump liquid from the bag.

Abstract: New compounds having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrocarbon moiety having from 1 to 7 carbon toms, R.sub.2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and R.sub.3 is hydrogen, formyl or acetyl. The compounds are useful in the preparation, modification and intensification of a great variety of flavor and perfume compositions.

Abstract: New compounds having the formula ##EQU1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrocarbon moiety having from 1 to 7 carbon toms, R.sub.2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and R.sub.3 is hydrogen, formyl or acetyl. The compounds are useful in the preparation, modification and intensification of a great variety of flavor and perfume compositions.