Beverage dispensing machine for achieving target pours for different beverages

US10988365B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED · IE

Inventors

• Evan Isaac Timerding Gant · Medford, US
• Christopher J. McClellan · Grove City, US
• Brian Cherbak · San Francisco, US
• Andrew Turner Kriebel · San Francisco, US
• Kyle Andrew Tucker · San Francisco, US
• Amy Eleanor Loomis · San Francisco, US
• James Patrick McCabe, Jr. · San Francisco, US
• Jaewon Sam Kang · Oakland, US
• Gregory T. Schulte · Oakland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 4, 2020
• Grant date: Apr 27, 2021
• Expiry date: Aug 4, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67D2210/00104
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to dispensing beverages from a beverage dispensing machine and include determining, from computer-readable media, pour parameters for a beverage of a plurality of beverages, the pour parameters being specific to the beverage, at least one pour parameter including a tilt value, and automatically, by the beverage dispensing machine: rotating a drum that holds a vessel to achieve the tilt value, initiating dispensing of the beverage into the vessel from a tap, automatically rotating the drum to reduce the tilt value of the vessel during dispensing of the beverage, and ceasing dispensing of the beverage into the vessel from the tap, the tilt value being substantially zero upon ceasing.