Beverage vending machine

Details Beverage vending machine Beverage vending machine

1985-07-26

1987-04-07

Bell, Jr., Houston S.

Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea

With material treatment

Heating or cooling

141104, 141174, B65B 104, B65B 304

Patent

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046552669

ABSTRACT:
A beverage vending machine having a cup magazine for delivery of cups individually to a readiness position for receiving a metered amount or quantity of a beverage ingredient, either in liquid or solid form, for formulation of a beverage. A metering device in the form of a metering slide valve delivers a metered quantity to individual cups successively. The slide valve has a valve gate that is provided with a metering space, formed as a through opening, for cyclical registry with an open lower opening of a receptacle containing the beverage ingredient. The slide valve is operated to deliver the metered quantity to a cup delivered from a cup magazine. The cup with the beverage ingredient is delivered via a chute to an access recess in the machine at which a liquid is added to the cup to formulate the beverage mixture. A mixer mixes the formulated beverage mixture.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2956706 (1960-10-01), Austgen et al.
patent: 4094345 (1978-06-01), Deziel

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