US 12,070,726 B2
Beverage carbonation system
Thomas Roy Sawyer, Toronto (CA); Eleu Thereus Tai Sung Um, Toronto (CA); Lukas Jeroen ten Kortenaar, Toronto (CA); and Michael James Norman Matsumoto, Toronto (CA)
Assigned to BONNE O INC., Toronto (CA)
Filed by BONNE O INC., Toronto (CA)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/381,311.
Application 18/381,311 is a continuation of application No. 17/967,010, filed on Oct. 17, 2022, granted, now 11,845,045.
Application 17/967,010 is a continuation of application No. 16/433,041, filed on Jun. 6, 2019, granted, now 11,529,594, issued on Dec. 20, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/768,015, filed on Nov. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0042399 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. B01F 23/2361 (2022.01); A23L 2/54 (2006.01); B01F 23/237 (2022.01); B01F 101/14 (2022.01)
CPC B01F 23/2361 (2022.01) [A23L 2/54 (2013.01); B01F 23/237621 (2022.01); B01F 2101/14 (2022.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A beverage carbonator comprising:
a carbonator outlet, a carbonator inlet, and a fluid flow path extending between the carbonator outlet and the carbonator inlet;
a carbonation chamber having a carbonation chamber gas outlet fluidly coupled to the fluid flow path, and a carbonation chamber fluid inlet;
a liquid reservoir positioned upstream from the carbonation chamber fluid inlet;
a flow valve movable between
a reservoir-connected position in which the liquid reservoir is fluidly connected to the carbonation chamber fluid inlet and the flow valve inhibits gas flow from the carbonator inlet towards the carbonator outlet, and
a gas-recirculation position in which the flow valve inhibits liquid flow from the liquid reservoir to the carbonation chamber fluid inlet and the carbonator inlet is fluidly connected to the carbonator outlet; and
a pump fluidly coupled to the fluid flow path downstream of the flow valve.