Drink machine for selectively preparing and dispensing beverages
AssigneeCIS Elektrogerate AG
InventorHanspeter Frei
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Abstract
The invention provides a drink machine for preparing and dispensing different hot and cold beverages. It comprises a plurality of beverage powder stock containers, each container being equipped with a feeding worm. Gearing units assigned to each stock container can be selectively coupled via a gearing unit to a common driving motor by actuating an electromagnet to operate the feeding worm of a selected beverage powder stock container. Thus, only one single driving motor is required to selectively operate all driving worms of the stock container. By this design, the feeding worms can easily be operated intermittently such that the overall quality of the prepared beverage is improved.
Claims14
A drink machine for selectively preparing and dispensing different hot and/or cold drinks prepared by dissolving a beverage powder in hot and/or cold water, said drink machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a water heating means;
- a pump means for feeding water to said water heating means;
- a plurality of stock container means for receiving a stock of beverage powder;
- at least one mixing device for mixing said beverage powder with water;
- each of said plurality of stock container means including feeder means for feeding beverage powder contained in said stock container means to said at least one mixing device;
- a common driving motor means for providing a driving force to drive said feeding means of each stock container means;
- a plurality of gearing means for transferring the driving force to respective feeding means, each gearing means is associated with a respective one of said feeding means of said beverage powder stock container means;
- each of said gearing means having a drive shaft connected to said common driving motor means and a driven shaft for driving said respective feeding means;
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- electro-mechanical means for selectively coupling each gearing means to said respective feeding means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.