Novel beverage vending concept

摘要

What if a vending machine could hold some 1,500 roll-fed pouches and fill beverage products from concentrate? WaterWerkz wants to find out, and the U.K. firm used the interpack fair in Dusseldorf as a place to gauge interest in the new concept.rnAt the heart of the concept is the design of the injection-molded spout fitment. It includes a small hook that makes it possible to string pouches together like beads on a necklace. The pouches are then mounted around a drum that fits inside a specially designed vending machine. When a consumer pushes the dispense button, the machine pulls one pouch from the roll and positions it beneath a spout from which the proper amount of beverage concentrate and waterrnare dispensed. When filling is complete, a threaded closure is applied and the pouch is then discharged.