Article dispensing – With recorder – register – indicator – signal or exhibitor – Dispenser part position or adjustment indicator
Patent
1989-05-18
1991-03-19
Kashnikow, Andres
Article dispensing
With recorder, register, indicator, signal or exhibitor
Dispenser part position or adjustment indicator
53281, 53282, 141103, 141141, 141170, 141174, 221 8, 221 13, 221 21, 221 96, 221221, A47F 104
Patent
active
050003453
ABSTRACT:
An automated drinkmaker system which is designed to accept an input drink order, as from a cash register, and deliver the drink order, for different sizes and different flavors, with or without ice, completely finished in lidded containers to an output station. The automated drinkmaker system is designed for labor free processing of drink orders in high volume quick service or fast food establishments. The machine is designed around a carousel type of drink transporter which intermittently carries each drink to and from four circularly spaced stations, cup dispensing, ice dispensing, soda dispensing, lid application and marking. The carousel design allows a cup to be dispensed at one station while another cup is being filled with ice at a second station, and yet another is being filled with soda at a third station, etc. The use of carousels is extended to both cup and lid dispensing. The system is designed to interface with any commercially-available, portioning ice dispenser, and also to interface directly with a cash register system to enable the cashier to input a customer's order. At an output station, the cup is transferred from the carousel to a linear transporter elevator which carries the cup up and down through a lidding and marking procedure, after which the completed drink is transferred to an output conveyor.
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Brogna Salvatore J.
Casler Richard J.
Lynders Joseph F.
Meadows John W.
Shulman Burt
Kashnikow Andres
PepsiCo Inc.
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