Beverage dispenser
AssigneeFlo-Smart Beverage Solutions IP Pty Ltd
InventorsConal HARTNETT, Matthew James DALE
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Abstract
A beverage dispenser for dispensing a beverage into a vessel, the beverage dispenser including a vessel-receiving region in which the vessel is locatable for receiving beverage; and a sensor arrangement for providing signals based on which a distance between one or more wall portions of the vessel, when located in the vessel-receiving region, and the sensor arrangement can be determined, wherein a volume of beverage to be dispensed into the vessel can be determined based on the determined distance between one or more wall portions of the vessel and the sensor arrangement.
Claims29
A beverage dispenser for dispensing a beverage into a vessel, the beverage dispenser including:
- a vessel-receiving region in which the vessel is locatable for receiving beverage;
- and
- a sensor arrangement for providing signals based on which a distance between one or more wall portions of the vessel, when located in the vessel-receiving region, and the sensor arrangement can be determined,
- wherein a volume of beverage to be dispensed into the vessel can be determined based on the determined distance between one or more wall portions of the vessel and the sensor arrangement.
A beverage dispenser for dispensing different beverages, the beverage dispenser including:
- two or more nozzles including a first nozzle for dispensing a first beverage and a second nozzle for dispensing a second beverage, and
- two or more beverage-conveying tubes portions including a first tube portion for conveying the first beverage from a first beverage container to the first nozzle and a second tube portion for conveying the second beverage from a second beverage container to the second nozzle, the first tube portion being different from the second tube portion.
A cooling system for a beverage dispenser, the beverage dispenser for dispensing beverage from a beverage container via a nozzle, the beverage dispenser including a beverage-conveying tube for conveying the beverage from the beverage container to the nozzle,
- the cooling system including:
- a cooling tube arrangement for cooling, or maintaining a temperature of, the beverage flowing through the beverage-conveying tube, the cooling tube arrangement including one or more cooling tube portions through which a cooling fluid is passable, the one or more cooling tube portions being locatable adjacent the beverage conveying tube or being adapted to receive the beverage conveying tube.
A control system for a beverage dispenser, the control system being configured to:
- receive an input, from a user, representing a number of portions of beverage desired by the user;
- determine a volume of beverage required to be dispensed based on the received input;
- and
- operate a pump of a beverage dispenser to dispense the volume of beverage via the nozzle of the dispenser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.