Dispensing system
AssigneeThe Coca-Cola Company
InventorCharles Bradley Green
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Abstract
A dispenser system for providing variable carbonation can include a carbonated water source in communication with a carbonated water valve for controlling flow of carbonated water through the dispenser system; a still water source in communication with a still water valve for controlling flow of still water through the dispenser system; a nozzle in fluid communication with the carbonated water source and still water source; a processing device adapted to modulate the carbonated water and still water valves within a modulate cycle to achieve a ratio of carbonated to non-carbonated water; and a pour mechanism adapted to provide an input to the processing device to dispense the beverage.
Claims18
A method of dispensing beverages of varying carbonation levels from a beverage dispenser, comprising:
- receiving an input to dispense a beverage;
- automatically adjusting a carbonation level associated with the beverage to be dispensed based on one or more ingredients included within the beverage to be dispensed;
- and
- modulating a carbonated water valve and a still water valve to alternately dispense carbonated water and still water at a ratio over multiple cycles to achieve the carbonation level.
A dispenser system for providing variable carbonation in a beverage, comprising:
- a carbonated water source in communication with a carbonated water valve for controlling flow of carbonated water through the dispenser system;
- a still water source in communication with a still water valve for controlling flow of still water through the dispenser system;
- a controller including a programmable processing device programmed to:
- adjust a carbonation level associated with a beverage to be dispensed based on one or more ingredients included within the beverage to be dispensed;
- and
- modulate the carbonated water and still water valves over multiple cycles to achieve the carbonation level for the beverage;
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- a pour mechanism structured to provide an input to the processing device to dispense the beverage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.