REPLACEABLE CONCENTRATE/EXTRACT CARTRIDGE FOR A LIQUID CONCENTRATE/EXTRACT BEVERAGE DISPENSER

• US 20100089944A1
• Filed: 09/29/2009
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intelligent Coffee Company, LLC
• Original Assignee: Intelligent Coffee Company, LLC
• Inventors: Greenwald, Shlomo, Greenwald, Zipora, Fischer, Roy Kenneth, Vassaux, Mario E., Girard, Jeffrey J., Anderson, Erik Kenneth, Symington, Richard, Pirshafiey, Nasser
• Granted Patent: US 7,828,020 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/407 with ingredient-containing cartridges; Cartridge-perforating means
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/41 of liquid ingredients
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/4492 Means to read code provided on ingredient pod or cartridge
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0022 the apparatus comprising means for automatically controlling the amount to be dispensed
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0046 Mixing chambers
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0079 having their own dispensing means
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0895 Heating arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 2001/0814 for upside down use
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 3/0032 the bottle or container being held upside down and provided with a closure, e.g. a cap, adapted to cooperate with a feed tube
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 13/00 Apparatus for measuring by volume and delivering fluids or fluent solid materials, not provided for in the preceding groups

Abstract

A concentrate/extract cartridge for a beverage dispenser adapted to dispense a liquid concentrate/extract and a diluent is provided. The cartridge includes a hollow body for containing liquid concentrate/extract and an aperture. A pumping device is connected to the hollow body for dispensing the liquid concentrate/extract from the hollow body through the aperture. A method for dispensing a liquid concentrate/extract from a beverage dispenser using a concentrate/extract cartridge is also provided in which the concentrate/extract does not come into contact with the dispenser.

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