CONTINUOUS MIXER OPERABLE TO CONTROL SACCHARIDES CONCENTRATION

A continuous mixer system for controlling the saccharide concentration of a sweetened liquid product mixture, which has (i) an undiluted sweetened solution input, (ii) a water input, (iii) a mixer having a product output, (iv) a first positive displacement rotary pump having a speed of rotation for feeding an undiluted sweetened solution through the undiluted sweetened solution input, (v) a second positive displacement rotary pump having a speed of rotation for feeding water through the water input, (vi) a continuous saccharometer for detecting the saccharide concentration of the product mixture discharged through the product output, (vii) a first speed adjuster for adjusting the rotational speed of said first rotary pump, (viii) a second speed adjuster for adjusting the rotational speed of the second rotary pump; and (ix) a controller, wherein a target value SB.sub.x of the saccharide concentration at the product output is preset in the controller and an actual value XB.sub.x detected by the saccharometer at the product output is compared in the controller with the target value SB.sub.x, the first and second speed adjusters can change the speeds of rotation of the first and the second pumps to reduce any difference found between SB.sub.x and XG.sub.x.