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US 2024/0000285 A1Published application
High speed reusable beverage container washing system with themed lighting
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorsJoel Boyer, Robert M. Digman, Dylan Rowe
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Abstract
A beverage container washing system, e.g., for use in a retail environment to wash and/or sanitize customer-provided beverage containers prior to filling the beverage containers with purchased beverages, may include a lighting system with a plurality of lights disposed on a housing of the beverage container washing system and configured to be illuminated with various types of animations to convey different types of information to a customer and/or retail establishment employee.
Claims20
An apparatus for washing a beverage container, comprising:
- a housing defining a wash chamber configured to receive a beverage container during a washing operation, the housing including an entrance opening configured to provide external access to the wash chamber prior to the washing operation to allow for insertion of the beverage container into the wash chamber, and an exit opening configured to provide external access to the wash chamber after the washing operation to allow for removal of the beverage container from the wash chamber;
- a plurality of lights coupled to the housing;
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- a controller coupled to the plurality of lights and configured to selectively illuminate the plurality of lights to represent a plurality of operational states associated with the washing operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.