Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With material treatment – Heating or cooling
Patent
1986-11-26
1988-04-19
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
active
047382902
ABSTRACT:
A beverage vending machine for dispensing hot-water or cold-water beverages formulated from selected water-soluble extracts comprises essentially a plurality of containers for storing the various extracts, a main water storage tank, means for producing hot and cold water, means for delivering cups in succession from a storage magazine to a cup dispenser, a pouring spout for mixing and homogenizing the beverage, means for guiding each cup during its transfer from a readiness position to a position of access to the cup in an access recess, metering means associated with one of the containers for picking up a predetermined amount of water-soluble extract and acting as a seal between a delivered cup and the cup dispenser, and a slide valve associated with each storage container and adapted to be reciprocated for transferring the metered amount of water-soluble extract from one of the containers to the cup, a radial array of control means driven by a single power unit through a control mechanism, each control means being actuated separately as a function of the selected beverage so that a selected means controlling the radial array of valves disposed concentrically around the cup dispenser is caused to perform an angular movement converted into a reciprocating movement of the selected slide valve.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2956706 (1960-10-01), Austgen et al.
patent: 4094345 (1978-06-01), Deziel
patent: 4625776 (1986-12-01), Mikkelsen
Bell, Jr. Houston S.
Burns Robert E.
Lobato Emmanuel J.
Societe de Fabrication d'Appareils Automatique et Siropsdite
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