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Modular manufacturing of beverage production machines

US8973485B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

NESTEC S.A. · CH

Inventors

Frank Kräuchi · Epautheyres, CH
Matthieu Ozanne · Chessel, CH
Stefan Kaeser · Aarau, CH
Rudolf Schenk · Aarau, CH
Guido Piai · Birkenfeld, DE
Bernhard Kreitmayr · Brackenheim, DE
Dimitar Georgiev · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 9, 2008
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 31, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49826
WIPO fieldFurniture, games
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A modular method of manufacturing a set of beverage production machines with different beverage-related functions. The machines are designed for producing a beverage on the basis of pre-portioned ingredient packages. The method includes providing a plurality of identical core units having control circuitry and a beverage production module for housing an ingredient package and feeding a liquid to the interior of the ingredient package, providing a plurality of different base platforms that differ as to beverage production functions, and manufacturing a set of different beverage production machines by mounting respectively at least one of the core units on a top surface of one of the differing base platforms while also mounting water reservoirs on the base platforms.

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