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1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRODUCT SOFT DRINK
Soft drinks can trace their history back to the mineral water
found in nature
springs. Bathing in natural springs has ling been consider a
healthy thing to do andmineral water was said to have curative
powers. Scientists soon discovered that gas
carbonium or carbon dioxide was behind in natural mineral
water.
The first marketed soft drinks (noncarbonated) appeared in the
17th
century. Theywater made from water and lemon juice sweetened
with honey. In 1676, the comparingde lemonades of Paris was granted
a monopoly for the sale of lemonade soft drinks.
Vendors would carry tanks of lemonade on their backs and
dispensed cups of the softdrink to the thirsty Parisians.
In 1767, an Englishman, Dr. Joseph priestly, created the
drinkable manmade glassof carbonated water. Three years later, the
Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman invented
a generating apparatus that made carbonated water from chalk by
the use of sulfuricacid. Bergmans apparatus allowed imitation
mineral water to be produced in large
amounts.In 1810, the first us plant was issued for the means of
mass manufacture of
imitation mineral water to Simons and Rundell of Charleston,
South Carolina.Carbonated beverages did not achieve great
popularity in America unit 1832, when JohnMathews mass manufactured
his apparatus for sale to others.
The drinking of either natural of artificial mineral water was
considered a healthypractice. American pharmacists. Who were
selling most of the mineral water started to
add medicinal and other flavorful herbs to the unflavored
beverage example, birch barkdandelion, sarsaparilla and fruit
extracts. The early drugs stores with their soda fountains
become a popular part of America culture. Customer wanted to
take drinks with them andthe soft drink bottling industry grew from
the customer demand.
Over 1500 US patents were filled either for a cork, cap or lid
for the carbonateddrink bottle tops. The bottle tops were under a
lot of pressure from the gas. Inventors
were trying to find the best way to prevent the carbon dioxide
(bubbles) from escaping.In1892, Willam painter, a Baltimore machine
stop operator, machine stop operator patented
the crown cork bottle seal. It was the first very successful
method of keeping thebubbles in the bottle.
In 1899, the first patent was issued for a glass-bowing machine
for the automaticproduction of glass bottles, earlier glass bottles
had all been hand blow. Four years later,
the mew bottle-blowing machine was in operation. The inventor,
Michel J Owens, anemployee of Libby Glass Company, first operated
it. Within a few years, glass bottle
production increased from 1500 bottle a day to 57000 bottles a
day.
