Beverage dispensing machine and pouch for use with beverage dispensing machine

US12344519B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• LNJ Group, LLC · US

Inventors

• Marshal Chang · Westminster, US
• Jeremy M. Fallis, Jr. · Bethlehem, US
• Brian Orme · Phoenixville, US
• Derrick Du · San Bruno, US
• Charles Le Pere · Cork, IE
• Courtney Cavanaugh · Cork, IE
• Simon Gatrall · San Francisco, US
• Jonathan Paul Downing · Belmont, US
• Jon-William G. Murphy · Cork, IE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 10, 2021
• Grant date: Jul 1, 2025
• Expiry date: Mar 5, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F25B2321/0252
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A beverage dispensing device comprising a beverage reservoir, a receptacle that receives a beverage container including a beverage and discharges the beverage from the beverage container into the beverage reservoir, a cutting mechanism that opens the beverage container to release the beverage, a cooling system comprising one or more thermoelectric coolers including one or more plate-like surfaces along the flow path wherein the cooling system performs at least one of chilling or warming the beverage that flows over at least part of the plate-like surface. The beverage dispensing device further comprising a pump that transfers the beverage from the beverage reservoir to the cooling system, an aeration component that receives and aerates the beverage from the cooling system, and a discharge nozzle coupled to the aeration component that dispenses the beverage.