Apparatus for preparing and dispensing hot potables

• US 3,295,998 A
• Filed: 05/28/1962
• Issued: 01/03/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nathan Goros
• Original Assignee: Nathan Goros
• Inventors: NATHAN GOROS
• Application Number:
  US04/197,988
• Time in Patent Office: 1,681 Days
• US Class Current: 99/282
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/3633 Means to perform transfer from a loading position to an infusing position
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/3638 Means to eject the cartridge after brewing
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/3642 Cartridge magazines therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 13/065 for drink preparation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/8831 Plural distinct cutting edges on same support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/9476 Tool is single element with continuous cutting edge [e.g., punch, etc.]

Claims

1. IN A MACHINE FOR DISPENSING AN INDIVIDUAL PORTION OF A POTABLE UPON EACH ACTUATION OF THE MACHINE, THE COMBINATION OF:

A TANK THE FLUID CAPACITY OF WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO AN INDIVIDUAL PORTION OF THE POTABLE, A DISPENSING STATION, A BREWING STATION CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO THE DISPENSING STATION, A SOURCE OF WATER, A FIRST CONDUIT MEANS CONNECTING SAID SOURCE OF WATER TO SAID TANK, A SECOND CONDUIT MEANS CONNECTING SAID TANK DIRECTLY TO SAID BREWING STATION, MEANS IN THE FIRST CONDUIT MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY ISOLATING THE SOURCE OF WATER FROM THE TANK, MEANS IN THE SECOND CONDUIT MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY ISOLATING THE BREWING STATION FROM THE TANK, AND FLUID MEANS FOR APPLYING PRESSURE TO THE WATER IN THE TANK WHEN THE TANK IS ISOLATED FROM THE SOURCE OF WATER AND IS CONNECTED TO THE BREWING STATION SO AS TO EMPTY THE TANK THROUGH THE BREWING AND DISPENSING STATIONS, SAID FLUID MEANS BEING INOPERATIVE TO APPLY SUCH PRESSURE WHEN THE TANK IS CONNECTED TO THE SOURCE OF WATER AND IS ISOLATED FROM THE BREWING STATION.

7. IN A MACHINE FOR DISPENSING A POTABLE, A PAIR OF JAWS, MEANS MOUNTING SAID JAWS FOR RELATIVE MOVEMENT TOWARD AND AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER, SAID JAWS FORMING A COMPARTMENT WHEN THEY ARE CLOSED TOGETHER, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID JAWS TOWARD AND AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER, SAID MEANS COMPRISING A PAIR OF FUNCTIONALLY INTEGRAL PISTONS OF DIFFERENT DIAMETERS IN COOPERATING CYLINDERS, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING WATER UNDER PRESSURE CONTINUOUSLY TO THE OUTER FACE OF THE SMALLER PISTON, MEANS SELECTIVELY SUPPLYING WATER UNDER PRESSURE TO THE OUTER FACE OF THE LARGER PISTON, SAID JAWS BEING MOVED TOWARD ONE ANOTHER WHEN THE WATER UNDER PRESSURE IS SUPPLIED TO THE LARGER PISTON AND BEING MOVED APART WHEN NO WATER UNDER PRESSURE IS SUPPLIED TO THE LARGER PISTON, A TANK MEANS CONNECTING THE CYLINDER IN WHICH THE LARGER PISTON OPERATES TO THE TANK WHEN THE LARGER PORTION IS DISCONNECTED FROM WATER UNDER PRESSURE WHEREBY WHEN THE JAWS ARE MOVED APART THE WATER FROM THE LARGER PISTON IS FORCED INTO THE TANK, MEANS CONNECTING THE TANK TO ONE OF THE JAWS, AND A VALVE IN SAID LAST-NAMED CONNECTING MEANS WHICH IS OPENED WHEN THE JAWS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER.

29. IN A MACHINE FOR DISPENSING POTABLES, A MAGAZINE CONTRAINING PLURAL PACKAGES, MEANS FOR ABSTRACTING ONE PACKAGE AT A TIME FROM THE MAGAZINE AND DELIVERING SAID PACKAGE TO AN INTERMEDIATE STATION, A BREWING STATION IN THE SAME HORIZONTAL PLANE AS THE INTERMEDIATE STATION, THE BREWING STATION INCLUDING A LOWER STATONARY JAW AND AN UPPER MOVABLE JAW, MEANS ENERGIZED UPON DELIVERY OF A PACKAGE TO THE INTERMEDIATE STATION TO TRANSPORT THE PACKAGE TO THE LOWER JAW, A CUP DISPENSING UNIT, A DISPENSING PLATFORM, AND MEANS ENERGIZED UPON ABSTRACTION OF A PACKAGE FROM THE MAGAZINE AND TRANSPORT THEREOF TO THE LOWER JAW TO ENERGIZE THE CUP DISPENSING UNIT AND CONDUCT A CUP THEREFROM TO THE DISPENSING PLATFORM.