Beverage dispenser

US6708741B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Martin Foster Berry · Lakeville, US
• Gorm Bressner · Providence, US
• Detlef Westphalen · Brookline, US
• Zebulon Stevens Robbins, III · Duxbury, US
• David F. Beittel · Arlington, US
• Bill Wright · Wakefield, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 24, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 23, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 24, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B67D3/0025
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In embodiments a beverage dispenser includes a beverage cabinet, a mechanically operable, gravity-fed piston valve that can be controllably opened and closed to dispense beverage in a generally downward direction, a valve actuator supported on the cabinet below the valve and coupled to the valve and a beverage flow path to direct beverage from the valve to a receptacle.