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BEVERAGE DISPENSING MACHINE AND OPERATING METHOD

  • US 20120328748A1
  • Filed: 09/03/2012
  • Published: 12/27/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A beverage dispensing machine, comprisinga brewing chamber;

  • brew means for brewing a beverage within the brewing chamber, means for delivering the brewed beverage via a beverage delivering section; and

    at least one electrovalve having a valve body with a wall having a discharge opening and a valve seat and having a shutter movable within the valve body between a closed position, which closes the discharge opening to block a flow of the brewed beverage from the brewing chamber into the beverage delivering section, and an open position, which opens the discharge opening to permit the flow of the brewed beverage into the beverage delivering section from the brewing chamber,said brew means including the at least one electrovalve in fluid communication with the brewing chamber to selectively pressurize and depressurize the brewing chamber in dependence upon a relative position of the shutter with respect to the discharge opening.

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