JP2008280057A - Drinking water in container and method for filling drinking water in container - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide drinking water in a container and a method for filling drinking water in a container in which hydrogen gas in the content filling the container can be prevented from being released into a head space of the container. <P>SOLUTION: Drinking water in a container of this invention is drinking water 16 put in a container 10, mixed and filled with hydrogen gas, and mixture gas 20 containing hydrogen of lower than 4% is filled in an upper space 18 within the container generated at liquid surface or surface of the drinking water 16 and sealingly closed. A method for filling drinking water in the container of this invention includes the step of mixing hydrogen of lower than 4% within the upper space in the container generated at the liquid surface or surface of drinking water, replacing it with the mixture gas and filling it and the step of sealingly closing mixture gas including hydrogen within the upper space in the container. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a container-filled drinking water and a method for filling a container with drinking water, and in particular, for example, a container-filled drinking water filled with soft drink mixed with hydrogen gas and sealed, and a method for filling a container with drinking water. About.

  Conventionally, there is a beverage containing hydrogen gas.

JP 2004-351399 A

In general, when a beverage or the like is produced with an aluminum bottle can, the head space of the bottle can, that is, the upper space in the container, in the case of a carbonated beverage, carbon dioxide in the filled contents is contained. In the case of non-carbonated beverages, the sealing strength is maintained by separately filling nitrogen gas.
However, in the case of a beverage in which hydrogen gas is mixed and sealed, in the normal bottle can manufacturing process, after filling the container, the hydrogen gas sealed in the beverage escapes into the head space, and as a result, Over time, the beverage may become one that does not contain hydrogen gas.
Therefore, the main object of the present invention is to fill the container with drinking water and the container so that the hydrogen gas in the contents filled in the container does not escape into the head space of the container. Is to provide a method.

The drinking water in a container according to the present invention is a mixing water containing less than 4% of hydrogen in an upper space in the container generated in the liquid surface or surface of the drinking water in the drinking water mixed and sealed with hydrogen gas. Bottled water filled with gas and sealed.
The drinking water contained in a container according to claim 2 of the present invention is a bottled can having a narrow mouth and a cap screwed to the mouth. It is.
The container-containing drinking water according to claim 3 of the present invention is the container-containing drinking water according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the mixed gas is a mixture of less than 4% of hydrogen with nitrogen gas.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for filling a container with drinking water, the step of filling the container with drinking water mixed and sealed with hydrogen gas, and the upper space in the container formed on the surface or surface of the drinking water. A method of filling a container with drinking water, comprising the steps of: mixing less than 4% of hydrogen and replacing the gas with a mixed gas, and filling the mixed gas containing hydrogen into the upper space in the container. It is.

  According to the results of modern research, excessive oxygen, stress, drinking, smoking, and other factors can create a reactive substance in the body called active oxygen. It is said to be neutralized and converted into harmless. According to the present invention, the hydrogen gas contained in the contents such as soft drinks is ingested without escaping the important hydrogen gas from the contents such as soft drinks containing the hydrogen gas filled in the container. It is possible to obtain drinking water in a container and a method of filling the container with drinking water.

  The above-described object, other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description of the best mode for carrying out the invention with reference to the drawings.

A container 10 according to the present invention is an aluminum bottle can with a narrow mouth, and a cap 14 is screwed to the mouth 12.
The container 10 is filled with drinking water 16 in which hydrogen gas is mixed and sealed. A container upper space (head space) 18 formed on the liquid surface or surface of the drinking water 16 is filled with a mixed gas containing less than 4% hydrogen and sealed.
The mixed gas is a mixture of less than 4% hydrogen with nitrogen gas.
However, since hydrogen is usually a flammable gas, the hydrogen mixed gas needs to be a mixed gas containing less than 4% of hydrogen, and if hydrogen has a concentration of 4% to 74%, there is a risk of explosion.

Next, a method for filling a container with drinking water will be described.
First, the container 10 is filled with drinking water in which hydrogen gas is mixed and sealed, for example, water in which hydrogen gas is mixed and sealed, a sports drink in which hydrogen gas is mixed and sealed, and a beauty beverage in which hydrogen gas is sealed (step) 101).
The container 10 is an aluminum bottle can having a narrow mouth 12, and a cap 14 is screwed to the mouth 12.

  Next, a mixed gas of hydrogen and nitrogen is injected into the container 10 from the mouth 12 to prevent the hydrogen gas of the drinking water 16 previously filled from escaping (step 102).

  Next, liquid nitrogen is injected into the container 10 from the mouth 12 to prevent the container 10 from being recessed, and mixed with hydrogen gas to be injected later to become a mixed gas (step 103).

Next, a mixed gas of hydrogen and nitrogen is blown from the mouth 12 of the container 10 into the container upper space 18 generated on the surface or surface of the drinking water (step 104).
At this time, hydrogen gas is filled by substituting less than 4% with a mixed gas of hydrogen and nitrogen mixed with nitrogen gas.
However, since hydrogen is usually a flammable gas, the hydrogen mixed gas needs to be a mixed gas containing less than 4% of hydrogen, and if hydrogen has a concentration of 4% to 74%, there is a risk of explosion.

Next, the cap 14 is screwed to the mouth 12 of the container 10 to seal the mixed gas containing hydrogen and nitrogen in the upper space 18 in the container (step 105).
At this time, if the cap 14 is screwed while jetting a mixed gas of hydrogen and nitrogen also around the cap 14, an appropriate amount of hydrogen gas can be put into the container more accurately (step 106).

Hydrogen gas is mixed and dispersed at a concentration of 0.4 ppm or more in drinking water, and it is an essential condition that this mixed and dispersed hydrogen gas has stability in the drinking water as the contents over time. By blowing a gas containing hydrogen gas into the headspace, the hydrogen gas is mixed and sealed, and the drinking water as the contents and the headspace are in equilibrium, and the hydrogen gas in the drinking water as the contents escapes to the headspace. The stability can be improved without any problems.
This is presumed to stop the transfer of hydrogen gas from the drinking water, which is the contents, into the head space by using the partial pressure difference between the hydrogen gas in the drinking water and the hydrogen gas in the head space.
Content containing hydrogen gas having stability over time by injecting and replacing this mixed gas into the cap and the headspace by the method of the present invention at the timing until the cap is screwed to the container. It becomes possible to produce a potable drinking water by filling the product.

The soft drink mixed and encapsulated with hydrogen gas according to the present invention is currently commercialized in aluminum bottle-type can containers, and is applied to all kinds of soft drinks such as water, fruit juice drinks, coffee drinks, etc. Is possible.

It is a cross-sectional schematic solution figure of a container with drinking water. It is an illustration figure which shows the method of filling a container with drinking water and mixed gas.

Explanation of symbols

10 Container 12 Port 14 Cap 16 Drinking Water 18 Upper Space in Container 20 Mixed Gas of Hydrogen and Nitrogen 22 Nitrogen

Claims (4)

In drinking water that is put in a container and mixed and sealed with hydrogen gas,
Containerd drinking water filled with a mixed gas containing less than 4% hydrogen and sealed in the upper space in the container generated on the surface or surface of the drinking water.   The container-containing drinking water according to claim 1, wherein the container is a bottle can having a narrow mouth, and a cap is screwed to the mouth.   The mixed gas is potable drinking water according to claim 1 or 2, wherein less than 4% of hydrogen is mixed with nitrogen gas. Filling the container with drinking water mixed and sealed with hydrogen gas;
In the upper space in the container generated at the liquid level or surface of the drinking water, hydrogen is mixed with less than 4%, and is replaced with a mixed gas to be filled.
Sealing the mixed gas containing hydrogen into the upper space in the container.

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