Wine Dispensing Systems and Methods
OwnerSteve Young, Jeffrey Macler +1inventors
InventorsSteve Young, Jeffrey Macler, William Jaouad Ziadi
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Abstract
Systems and methods for dispensing chilled wine using a dispensing appliance. The appliance generally comprises a housing or enclosure protecting internal components and providing a chilled chamber for wine storage and an unchilled chamber for electric and other components. An airtight wine “silo” containing a packaged wine is insertable into a cradle in the chilled chamber for attaching to a fluid connector system. The user operates a handle to control wine flow. Identifiers on the silo may be read and transmitted to a server, where learning algorithms can suggest alternative wines the user may like based on user feedback about prior wines used with the appliance.
Claims19
A wine dispensing system comprising:
- a fluid silo comprising an internal bladder inside an outer housing, said internal bladder having a fluid connector fitment at an end thereof;
- a housing having a chilled chamber and an unchilled chamber;
- a cradle disposed in said chilled chamber, said cradle configured to hold said fluid silo;
- a fluid connecting system disposed in said chilled chamber and configured to connect fitment of said fluid silo when disposed in said cradle;
- a dispensing nozzle external to said housing and in fluid communication with said fluid connecting system;
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- a cooling system configured to cool said chilled chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.