CN1906089B - Distribution methods for distributing and dispensing beverages and liquid food products - Google Patents
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method of distributing beverages or liquid food products including transportation, by a commercial distributor, or flexible bags (10) filled with the beverage or liquid food products. Flexible bags (10) are located in the bulk transport containers (30) and transported to consumers of the product in required quantities. Flexible bags (10) are delivered to a consumer, the beverage or liquid food product being dispensed for consumption ban an end consumer. Through each step in the distribution method, hazard and critical control points during distribution and dispensing are minimised, the 'one way' nature of the preferred embodiment of the method minimising recovery and recycling costs at well as potential hygiene problems associated with re-use of containers currently in use.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the method for a kind of dispensing and distribution beverage and liquid food.
Background technology
The bottled water dispensing is one of most important market in the food service industry, is worth to reach multi-million dollar.
At present, adopt big polycarbonate bottle that bottled drinking water is provided and delivered to the customer.This kind bottle can hold the product that 15-19 rises usually, and correspondingly, its weight is between the 15-19 kilogram.These bottles are recyclable, caused an existing issue in the sector but provide the necessary hygienic operation of some integrity measurements.
Health is a main Consideration.After the customer has used a bottle, do not have lid and give back and then bottle is cleaned and sterilize before preserve by the retailer, it is difficult keeping HACCP (Hazard and Critical Control Points danger and critical control point) system.Whether bottle once was used to store deletrious material or was difficult to monitor with the inconsistent material of safety dispensing bottled water.The detection of polluting before consumption is the problem of a difficulty.Pollution/variable color or chemical after water is flavoursome are the problems of being familiar with.
Secondly, adopt big polycarbonate bottle to be contained in for the personnel of the bottle of providing and delivering or to drinking that the customer of water has the danger that comes to harm in the bottle.If these bottles fall, they may cause great injury.This has caused the problem of a great Occupational Health and Safety.
The 3rd, the storage of bottle, transportation and recovery will produce very big expense.If bottle is arrived dispensing point and customer with bigger truck transport as common operation, maximum cost problem is plot ratio (Cubic Metre Rate), i.e. the useless region that produces owing to circular bottle in sky or full railway carriage.The fuel price that goes up also is disadvantageous.This kind truck may also need a weight-lifting equipment to handle the heavy weight bottle.When adopting boxed truck and bottle to be placed on the lorry base plate, bottle also may be exposed in the airborne contaminants of pollutants/wet goods and other form.This can cause the inferior-quality product of hygienic quality.Thereby between pollution problem discussed above and transport economic specific property problem, there is conformability.
The 4th, polycarbonate or similar bottle provide a plastic closures or lid usually, and therefore before being placed on bottle in the distributor, customer or operator must remove this and seal or cover.When bottle upsidedown and when being placed into distribution position in the distributor, potable water may overflow and waste.Insect, air borne bacterium and foul be the possibility discolored water also, will make water unhygienic on this meaning.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide to be used for to customer dispensing and to distribute the method and apparatus of beverage such as potable water for example, can solve the problem of health, safety and the expense of aforesaid allocator of the prior art and equipment.
For this purpose, the present invention proposes a kind of the manufacturing and the method for dispensing flexible pouch of full of liquid beverage or liquid food under aseptic condition, this method nozzle by forming each flexible pouch part or cock especially may further comprise the steps to the method that customer's dispensing of described liquid beverage or liquid food receives remuneration simultaneously:
A) the described flexible pouch of full of liquid beverage or liquid food is placed in the bulk transport container that can hold a plurality of flexible pouch;
B) bulk transport container that will be placed with the flexible pouch that is full of by commercial dealer is transported to the customer of described beverage or liquid food; With
C) the full of liquid beverage of requirement or the flexible pouch of liquid food are unloaded and consign to the customer; With
D) pay each flexible pouch and be contained in this flexible pouch and be about to liquid beverage or liquid food by terminal consumer's consumption to be used for distributing,
E) pass through nozzle or cock step with liquid beverage or liquid food filling of flexible pouches, described nozzle or cock form each flexible pouch part, serve as filling access and distribution outlet and avoid residual from seal operation, described flexible pouch seals in manufacturing process rather than in filling process, wherein, by each step, danger and critical control point during the dispensing of beverage or liquid food are minimized, and be included in aseptic condition under fill described flexible pouch make described liquid beverage or liquid food not have to pollute or the situation of deleterious effect under payment customer use.
This kind comprises Physical Danger with the relevant danger of beverage or food, for example the chemistry or the bio-hazard of colliding injury or for example being caused by toxin, bacterium or other dirt.Critical control point is the point that the potential danger of this kind is minimized or avoided in delivery system.
Commercial dealer self can adopt one fill automatically or baling line for example fruit juice, milk etc. or other liquid food are used to fill this flexible pouch with potable water, other beverage under aseptic condition.This class I liquid I and water are than having bigger density and/or viscosity.Do not plan to re-use this flexible pouch.This allocator can be " unidirectional (one-way) ".Flexible pouch does not need to reclaim to re-use, and can cause danger that be difficult to detect and the dirt aforesaid HACCP chain integraty of corrosion by re-using.That is to say, on proprietorial meaning, come " disposing (dispose) " flexible pouch by the dealer.Carrying cost and cost recovery also can be avoided.Yet the customer can adopt repeated usage or dispose service, thereby the material of flexible pouch can be disposed with being re-used or have a responsibility for.
Flexible pouch can be desirably by forming cock, outlet, nozzle, valve or other distributor of a distribution flexible pouch part, and being not limited to filling and encapsulating method by a kind of form, this method can advantageously be avoided critical control point residual from seal operation.In addition, this kind bag seals in manufacturing process rather than in filling process.Therefore can obtain better airtight quality.Also can avoid using special polymeric seal equipment, save cost.After the manufacturing cock is being installed on the bag.In addition, can use any type of flexible pouch equally, particularly simple, health and inexpensive structure.
Commercial dealer also can install flexible pouch---for example by the location---is used to distribute potable water, other beverage or liquid food in a distributor.The dealer can be to the customer to rent, to sell or other mode as a part of benchmark of distribution services is supplied distributor.The dealer also can maintain these distributors according to a maintenance plan.When distributor was a refrigerated cooler, this distributor was equipped with cooling mechanism.Potable water is cooled usually before consumer spending, therefore will comprise a chilling unit usually at the distributor that is used for potable water.
The bulk transport container that is used for the flexible pouch transportation is designed to hold a plurality of flexible pouch, and can be adapted to the variation of the quantity of these bags according to consumer demand easily.In other words, bulk transport container advantageously has transformable volume and/or collapsible.Can avoid single flexible bag packing or " vanning (boxing) ".Like this, can realize easier and more cheap material requirements planning economically, not need dealer or sub-dealer to accept the product of a large amount of minimums, this is essential in the bottled water delivery system of polycarbonate.
A suitable bulk transport container is a cubical bulk transport container, perhaps has level and smooth wall and bottom construction and provides the similar design of a side door of being convenient to enter.The structure of this container has reduced the risk that flexible pouch wrecks and pollutes during transportation and storage (critical control point).This container can be made by poly-mer, for example is suitable for use in the high density poly propylene (HDPP) in other environment of food-grade.This kind container can fold to obtain transformable volume.Can select the recovery of bulk transport container can use the space of failing vehicle and not wasting vehicle economically than using storage space with realization effectively and making.This container is stackable.
Flexible pouch can be filled in one central location, is dispensed into DISTRIBUTION CENTRE then before a plurality of customers that are positioned at a plurality of areas are given in dispensing.Directly providing and delivering from middle position is a kind of selection.In special permission franchise system, central dealer can authorize franchisee or other people the method according to this invention dispensing beverage and liquid food.The volume of this bulk transport container can change according to the volume of beverage to be paid or liquid food.This bulk transport container can have little volume and flexible pouch stock under folded state.Can adopt computer system that payment, stock and payment are managed.
Flexible pouch can be installed at least one handle.This handle makes that it is more easily mentioned and can distribute provides the bracing or strutting arrangement of flexible pouch being installed or remaining in the distributor, thereby allows roughly fully to discharge the amount of liquid in the flexible pouch so that waste minimum.In the handle of handle, this handle can make flexible pouch curl.This handle can allow to install or keep flexible pouch in distributor.This flexible pouch can be cylindrical shape when can be cylindrical shape or being placed in the distributor when being full of.This bag can hold any volume required product, and for example less than 15 liters, preferably between 10 to 15 liters, its purpose is if during transportation bag falls down and can reduce danger.
Be suitable for keeping the distributor of flexible pouch can comprise the shell during beverage or liquid food distribution, placing flexible pouch and make minimum contamination.This shell can comprise a bracing or strutting arrangement, its can with the handle co-operate that forms a flexible pouch part with supporting flexible bag in shell.A columniform shell or the shell that has a cylindrical form interior surface can hold flexible pouch, and in the time of in inserting shell, this flexible pouch has a cylindrical shape.The seam of flexible pouch can be configured such that proper flexible pouch has cylindrical shape when being full of.The bottom of this shell can tilt with respect to the vertical axis of shell, and perhaps configuration is on the contrary roughly fully discharged the contents of flexible pouch to allow by gravity to the customer from the distributor to the cock or from other delivery installation that is used for water or liquid food.The bottom forms the shape with profile or funnel.Shell can be flaring structure so that flexible pouch is installed in distributor.Can save the location or the suspension gear of flexible pouch thus, but if also can adopt when needing.The bottom of chilling unit with refrigeration distributor shell can be set.
Flexible pouch can provide or be communicated with outlet delivery cock or a valve, to be used for paying beverage or liquid food for consumer spending with other delivery installation co-operate that forms a distributor part.Cock can be contained in the groove or hole in the shell that is formed at distributor.Cock is supplied with by gravity.Can be desirably and advantageously save the required pumping system of discharged liquid product from flexible pouch.Can between the inwall of flexible pouch and distributor shell, be provided with one for example for the shield of poly-mer or composite material, avoid destroying with the bottom and the cock of protection flexible pouch.This shield can be provided with near cock, valve or the nozzle of bag and/or the groove in the distributor shell or hole.
Commercial dealer can carry out any of this method or each step, and it can be used as independently tissue, vertical integrated tissue and/or the group by selecting one or more contractors from them, employee or procuratorial these groups.
The customer can be family, industry or commercial customer." customer " can be the bailee who is full of flexible pouch who represents other people interests.That is to say that employed " customer " can comprise the owner and the operator of storage equipment who is used to store filling bag of the commercial dealer's interests of representative here." terminal user " is the single individuality or a group individuality of real consumption beverage.The customer also can comprise a group, water or other beverage and liquid food need be supplied to this group, with the purpose of the health, health or the supply restriction that are used for causing owing to war or disaster.This kind group may be away from main population center district.
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The present invention can more fully understand according to the accompanying drawing of preferred implementation described below and institute's reference thereof, wherein:
Fig. 1 a is the lateral plan that is used for according to the unfilled flexible pouch of the preferred implementation of allocator of the present invention;
Fig. 1 b is the block diagram of cock that is installed to the flexible pouch of Fig. 1 a;
Fig. 1 c is the front elevation of handle that is used for the flexible pouch of Fig. 1 a;
Fig. 1 d is the birds-eye view of the handle of Fig. 1 c;
Fig. 2 is the block diagram that loads the transport vehicle of bulk transport container, wherein is mounted with the flexible pouch that is full of according to the preferred implementation of allocator of the present invention in the bulk transport container;
Fig. 3 is the three-dimensional cutaway view of the flexible pouch that is used to provide and deliver of filling the preferred implementation of with good grounds allocator of the present invention in the bulk transport container;
Fig. 4 is the block diagram of bulk transport container under folding situation among Fig. 3, is approximately 1/3rd of its maximum volume;
Fig. 5 is the block diagram of bulk transport container under unfolding condition or total volume among Fig. 4, and the total volume condition is used for the preferred implementation according to allocator of the present invention;
Fig. 6 is the block diagram of the distributor that is mounted with a flexible pouch that is full of according to a further aspect of the invention, and this distributor is a refrigerated cooler;
Fig. 7 is the block diagram that is suitable for being placed on the distributor of bench-top, and this distributor is a refrigerated cooler;
Fig. 8 is the block diagram that is applicable to according to the shell of the distributor of the preferred implementation of allocator of the present invention;
Fig. 9 a is the birds-eye view of the shell among Fig. 8; With
Fig. 9 b is the front elevation of the shell among Fig. 8;
Fig. 9 c is the lateral plan of the shell among Fig. 8; With
Figure 10 is that protection is used for the front elevation according to the shield of the cock of the distributor of the preferred implementation of allocator of the present invention.
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According to allocator of the present invention, the dealer of beverage or liquid food adopts the flexible pouch 10 of form as shown in Figure 1a.This bag 10 is made up of the polymer architecture that is used for the food-grade application, and is designed to bear common operation, wherein may comprise wearing and tearing.This kind flexible pouch 10 is installed at faucet hole 12 places or is formed with valve, nozzle or a cock, for example beverage such as potable water by these devices guidings filling bag.Described a suitable cock 20 in U.S. Pat 6296157 of applying for Scholle company name and US6360925, its content is incorporated herein with for referencial use.Such cock 20 Fig. 1 b neutral body illustrate.It has the actuator 21 and the rib end 22 that makes socket cooperate faucet hole 12 that start flow of liquid, and the smooth inner bore of this rib and faucet hole 12 has formed sealing.End 22 does not use screw thread to avoid in potential wearing and tearing and the fragment influent product and with the risk of its pollution.This flexible pouch 10 has rectangular shape when smooth, and is provided with a recess 14 between the seam 11 of bag 10.On bag 10, be formed with transverse seam 11 and 17 and longitudinal seam 19.As Fig. 1 c and 1d in detail shown in, handle 15 can be installed with support pouches in distributor 10 or is convenient to the dealer or customer's transportation by recess 14.Graphic handle 15 is made by polyethylene or propylene, and has tubular shape.The 15b of bar portion can the recess 14 by bag 10 inserts and is fixed by the fitting sleeve 15c of the 15a of barb portion that passes the 15b of bar portion.Ring 15d allows handle 15 for example to be located or be suspended in the distributor, as shown in Figure 6 by a steady arm.The volume of single bag is filled about 11 liters and weight less than 12 kilograms (density of water is 1 gram/cm3 (g/cc) in the environment around), yet bag flexibility or different volumes can be provided.Seam 16 and 17 so is provided with: in the time of in being placed on distributor, will form one " funnel " or profile in the bottom of bag 10 so that by gravity to bottom discharged liquid product.The tilted configuration of seam 16 shows funnel and how to form.This makes that the waste of liquid product is minimum.
The dealer of potable water adopts a traditional automatic packaging or interstitial wire under the aseptic condition of health that is suitable for or quality loop defined, come filling of flexible pouches 10 to use potable water.Other beverage or liquid food are selectable substitute products.Here the description for potable water is for its advantage exemplarily is described.A large amount of flexible pouch 10 can be filled in the regular hour section continuously.Baling line is filled run duration at one can be continuously or operation intermittently and can be configured to supply different liquid products, i.e. water, orange juice or the like.Flexible pouch 10 does not need independent packing in container, this container for example is chest or other bag, as known in the prior art " bag is in case (bag in box) ".Positively, this is to be avoided the urgent hope of cost waste institute.Seam 11,17 and 19 is set makes that flexible pouch 10 has cylindrical shape when filling.
The flexible pouch 10 that is full of is placed on as Fig. 2 in bulk transport container 30 shown in Figure 5.Do not need to use carriage or attachment strap to wait and carry out specific installation.Bag 10 fitly is deposited in the container.Trade mark is that this type of bulk container 30 of GEM.CON can obtain from Chep International.This kind container 30 has level and smooth wall and bottom construction and a side door of being convenient to more promptly enter is provided.Otch 32 on the wall is to allow it to be lifted necessary by forklift.Lid 31 is separable and can prevents to damage.This container can be made by poly-mer, for example is suitable for being used in the high density poly propylene (HDPP) in the food rank environment.The structure of bulk transport container 30 helps to protect flexible pouch 10 during transportation to exempt from destruction or pollutes.This kind container 30 can be with selected recovery than folding, with the storage space that obtains effectively to use and make and can use transport vehicle economically and do not waste on the vehicle/interior space.Container 30 has about 3: 1 recovery than to allow its volume can reduce 2/3 at most where necessary, by comparison diagram 4 and shown in Figure 5, and can be so that more effectively use storage space at storehouse reservation with between the delivery period.This can be by Foldable container 30 wall to the quantity of optimal volume with the flexible pouch 10 of the liquid food that meets the needs of payment or beverage.Separable lid 31 is placed on its position then.Selecting transport vehicle also can have the ability that changes volume by container 30 with the alerting ability of saving traffic cost obtains.
Single bulk transport container 30 can hold the flexible pouch of 60-65 11 liter capacitys.Container 30 helps to make bag 10 to isolate with dust and oil pollutant.This type of bulk transport container 30 can be placed on one then and be suitable for selecting to store in the vehicle of volume, comprises land transport vehicle, marine equipment or the aircraft of container and potable water being transported to any required area.Fig. 2 shows one and loads some flat-top trucies 50 with the bulk transport container 30 of two-tier stacking, and it is used for large-scale payment in bulk.This area can be by war, disaster or potable water and lacks and the backcountry of influence.
Commercial dealer is to the supplier that live in this locality, customer industry or commerce supplies drinking water, and it can also can manage this transportation directly to client and customer's shipping bulk transfer cask 30.When the dealer for example from a middle position directly when client transports potable water, the dealer can provide and deliver to the sub-dealer of beverage provider or franchisee's supply of material and to the customer.Bulk transport container 30 can have the variable volume that is adapted to various quantity delivereds.In the scope of the definition that this kind franchisee is included in " commercial dealer " as used in this specification, can be from a middle position to this franchisee's supply, and the economy transportation can allow to be offered the customer economically than the beverage (potable water) more in a small amount that bottled water delivery system can provide, because in the bottled water delivery system, the storage space of bottle can cause it to lack economy.Do not use bottle to reduce owing to personnel lift the safety issue that bottle produces yet.Flexible pouch is compared with hard bottle has less weight and impact, thereby will produce littler injury.
Dealer or franchisee can help the customer that the flexible pouch that is full of 10 of drinks is installed in the distributor 40, and this distributor is a refrigerated cooler.A suitable distributor is described to Figure 10 below with reference to Fig. 6.Commercial dealer can be used as the part of delivery service and provides this kind distributor 40 to the customer.The dealer can provide direct past-sale service to the customer but be not limited to: the use of the accessible characteristic of beverage and liquid food, distributor, the supply of distributor and payment are selected.This service can be provided by computing machine, and this computing machine can be supervised management, account payment and maintenance plan of product inventory or the like.
Commercial dealer need not plan to regain flexible pouch to re-use, and still will transfer the customer to further " disposal " of flexible pouch 10.Thus, can avoid in existing bottled water allocator, needing to re-use bottle and the hygienic issues that produces.The unfavorable economic conditions that also can avoid the expense of recovery, storage and cleaning to produce owing to bottle.Commercial dealer pays and sells flexible pouch 10 to the customer of consumable beverage or liquid food, does not exist because pollution or the deleterious effect that the repeated usage of payment container causes.
Fig. 6 shows the distributor 40 that has inner casing 42, and it is a refrigerated cooler, is provided with a flexible pouch that is full of 10 in this inner casing 42.In the time of in being placed on shell 42, the flexible pouch 10 that is full of potable water is cylindrical shape.The side face seam 19 and the transverse seam 17 that are provided with in the flexible pouch 10 help to obtain cylindrical shape.Shell 42 is placed on the support 44.Shell 42 is combined with a chilling unit 46.This refrigerating apparatus 46 can be constructed by the following technology in the refrigeration field.Shell 42 is provided with and movably covers 48, and this lid provides the design of aesthetics to strengthen the attractive force to the customer.Shell 42 and lid 48 all provide a groove or hole 49, and aforesaid cock 20 can be from wherein passing to distribute potable water to the customer.
By encircling on the device that 15d is placed on a steady arm or other suitable sidewall that is positioned at shell 42, removable hood 48 bottoms and by handle 15 (referring to Fig. 1 c) location or hang flexible pouch 10, will help the distribution of this kind potable water.Especially, this suspension is provided with and helps potable water from flowing to cock 20.When being placed on bag 10 in the shell 42,, " funnel " or the profile that seam 16 and 17 forms also further help gravity flow by being set.Distributor 40 does not need to provide one by the pump of cock 20 to customer's transporting water.Therefore can reduce cost and complexity.
Fig. 7 shows a distributor 140 that does not have support 44.In this case, distributor 140 is (ambient) distributors on every side that are arranged on the bench-top 60.
Fig. 8 and 9 provides shell 42 to construct in more detail.Here shell 42 is depicted as major part along its length, has open cylindrical section along a distribution section 43 of described shell 42.Be provided with a groove or hole 49 at the bottom of shell 42 42a, but have an edge or a wall 47 that is enough to hold a flexible pouch 10.The bottom 42a of shell 42 tilts in kerve or 49 positions, hole with the angle with respect to horizontal direction 15-20 °, to provide one from the rear wall 42b of shell 42 degree of dip towards groove or hole 49.This also helps the distribution of potable water because when flexible pouch 10 in distribution during the position, bag 10 can have a bevelled " bottom surface ", this bottom surface will help to make potable water to discharge to be distributed to the customer towards groove or hole 49 and cock 20.As shown in figure 10, one has the plane and arched shield 70 can be arranged in the edge 47, and is arranged between the cock 20 of bag 10 and the faucet hole 12 to prevent that flexible pouch 10 is in these position wearing and tearing or pierce through.After cock 20 is installed on the flexible pouch 10, the hole 71 of shield 70 is enclosed within on the actuator 21, thereby holds it near the position of cock 20 with in this locality protection flexible pouch 10.Otch on the hole 71 makes this location more convenient.Shield 70 can be a poly-mer or compound structure.Shield 70 and handle 15 can or provide in the tool outfit in wrapping separately, and it also can be carried in bulk transport container 30, and can be installed by the dealer.Show the installation of shield 70 among Fig. 6 with empty outline line.
The bottom 42a of shell 42 can install with respect to chilling unit 46, like this bottom 42a can be by refrigeration, thereby the potable water in the flexible pouch 30 is carried out refrigeration.Chilling unit 46 only just is set when needed.Refrigerating coil can be carried out the refrigeration task.The bag 10 of more volume may need the refrigeration of adding.
In case bag 10 is placed in the shell 42 of distributor 40, and removable hood 48 puts into its position, thereby distributor 40 just can be operated and pay potable water by actuator 21 actuating cocks 20 to the customer.If expectation before bag 10 is put into distributor shell 42, can be put into this bag refrigerator and carry out pre-refrigeration.
Is conspicuous according to the modifications and variations form of the allocator of dispensing of the present invention and distribution beverage and liquid food and equipment for the reader of this area.This kind modifications and variations form will be considered to fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.Especially, but any liquid food or beverage all method and apparatus according to the invention provide and deliver and distribute.
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1. make and the method for dispensing flexible pouch of full of liquid beverage or liquid food under aseptic condition for one kind, this method is used for customer to described liquid beverage or liquid food this flexible pouch of providing and delivering and receives remuneration simultaneously, and this method may further comprise the steps:
A) the described flexible pouch of full of liquid beverage or liquid food is placed in the bulk transport container that can hold a plurality of flexible pouch;
B) this bulk transport container that will be placed with the flexible pouch that is full of by commercial dealer is transported to the customer of described liquid beverage or liquid food; With
C) the full of liquid beverage of requirement or the flexible pouch of liquid food are unloaded and consign to described customer; With
D) pay each flexible pouch, be contained in this flexible pouch and will be by the liquid beverage or the liquid food of terminal consumer's consumption with distribution,
It is characterized in that:
E) pass through nozzle or cock step with liquid beverage or liquid food filling of flexible pouches, described nozzle or cock form each flexible pouch part, serve as filling access and distribution outlet and avoid residual from seal operation, described flexible pouch seals in manufacturing process rather than in filling process, wherein, by each step, danger and critical control point during dispensing and the distribution are minimized, and be included in aseptic condition under fill described flexible pouch make described liquid beverage or liquid food not have to pollute or the situation of deleterious effect under payment customer use.
2. the method for claim 1 is wherein distributed described liquid beverage or liquid food by the cock that is assemblied in bag, and described cock has actuator and crosses described cock to impel flow of liquid; With the rib end, described cock is assembled in the bag faucet hole with smooth inner bore with permission.
3. the method for claim 1, wherein said commercial dealer's filling of flexible pouches.
4. the method for claim 1, the described liquid beverage that wherein is contained in the flexible pouch is a potable water.
5. the method for claim 1, wherein said allocator is " unidirectional ", does not need to reclaim flexible pouch to utilize again.
6. method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said commercial dealer is placed on the described flexible pouch that water is housed in the distributor, to pay water to the terminal consumer.
7. method as claimed in claim 6, wherein said commercial dealer supplies with and safeguards described distributor, receives remuneration simultaneously.
8. method as claimed in claim 4, the volume-variable of wherein said bulk transport container, it is suitable for changing according to consumer demand the quantity of flexible pouch.
9. method as claimed in claim 8, the cube design of wherein said bulk transport container has smooth wall and bottom construction, thereby reduces the risk that described flexible pouch wrecks and pollutes.
10. method as claimed in claim 9, wherein said bulk transport container is by being applicable to that the poly-mer in the food-grade environment makes.
11. method as claimed in claim 6, wherein said flexible pouch comprises at least one handle.
12. method as claimed in claim 11, wherein said flexible pouch is placed in the described distributor by described at least one handle.
13. method as claimed in claim 12, in the time of wherein in being placed on described distributor, described flexible pouch allows roughly discharged liquid contents from described flexible pouch fully.
14. method as claimed in claim 13, wherein said distributor have the shell of a band bottom, this bottom tilts with respect to the vertical axis of this shell, to allow roughly discharged liquid contents from described flexible pouch fully.
15., wherein when discharged liquid contents from described flexible pouch, described flexible pouch is maintained in the described distributor with erectility as each described method among the claim 12-14.
16. method as claimed in claim 15, the described shell of wherein said distributor have an inwall and a shield, this shield exempts from the bottom of protecting described flexible pouch between the described inwall of described flexible pouch and described shell and is damaged.
17. method as claimed in claim 16, wherein said flexible pouch are communicated with cock being used to the paying water that the customer is consumed, and described shield is arranged near described cock.
18. the method for claim 1, one of them commercial dealer comprises the group that at least one is selected from group, and this group comprises: independently organize vertical integrated tissue with, employee, contractor and the Agt of arbitrary tissue for one.
19. method as claimed in claim 18, wherein said customer is the bailee of described flexible pouch.
20. as claim 1 or the described method of claim 2, wherein, this flexible pouch is full of potable water further to be comprised the steps flexible pouch is installed in the distributor to be used for distributing to the terminal consumer step of potable water, wherein, described allocator is " unidirectional ", need not reclaim flexible pouch to re-use.
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