Hello Bob, I believe ours was a concentrate, as that was what was on the five gallon cans we received from Pepsi Cola. There was a stainless steel vat on a mezzanine above the filler which held the concentrate and water used to make the syrup, I don't recall how the water was measured into the concentrate vat. as I never had a reason to go up there, but I saw piles of 5 gal empty concentrate cans on the mezzanine so I figure it was mixed by an operator. and that is probably why the syrup into the filler was tested so often. There was a stainless steel pipe line from the concentrate vat down to the filler, which had an adjustable air valve which allowed so much concentrate into whatever size bottles were being filled. all this equipment was of the sanitary construction so it could be taken apart and cleaned every so many production hours. the flow from the vat to the filler reservoirs was gravity fed, but the filler reservoirs which held about 10 gallons of concentrate was slightly air pressurized, which would depressurize every few minutes to let in more concentrate, then repressurize to fill bottles. first reservoit a would fill than depressurize as reservoir b would fill and depressurize and so forth and so on all shift long, back and forth between the two reservoirs. hard to explain but I sure you are getting the gist of things, I am sure not all plants did it all the same way, but I know they all had to start with the 5 gallon cans of concentrate, unless it came in larger amounts for more modern facilities........AndySODAPOPBOB said:
