Patent ID: 8347780

Claim:
A beverage air management system for coupling a bag of syrup to a dispensing system for providing the syrup into a drink, comprising: a first chamber configured for receiving an air and syrup combination having a mixture of large air bubbles at times and substantially little or no air bubble at other times, and for separating air going to the top of the first chamber from syrup flowing to the bottom of the first chamber; a second chamber configured for receiving the syrup; a first device comprising an air/syrup vacuum ratio adjustment screw or valve opening assembly configured to be adjustably opened or closed to control the amount of the syrup that flows from the first chamber to part of the second chamber and to be set for an optimum air-to-syrup ratio specific to each beverage air management system; a second device configured for passing the air from the first chamber to another part of the second chamber so as to reintroduce the air back into the syrup at the optimum air-to-syrup ratio and form a new syrup mixture having more uniform air bubbles; and an outlet port configured for responding to a vacuum and discharging the new syrup mixture from the beverage air management system.