Nutritional product dispenser
AssigneeBiosauce Holdings Limited
InventorTom Bulgin
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Abstract
An apparatus for dispensing nutritional products including a number of storage hoppers for powdered ingredients, a controllable outlet connected to each storage hopper and operable to release controlled amounts of the powdered ingredients, a controllable liquid supply, a mixer, and a control system including a user interface for capturing data from a user. The control system uses the data that the user inputs to determine the quantity of each powdered ingredient and the quantity of liquid to be released to create a nutritional product, and sends signals to the liquid supply and the outlets to release the determined quantity of liquid and each powdered ingredient into the mixer to be mixed before being dispensed into a container.
Claims13
An apparatus for dispensing nutritional products comprising:
- a number of storage hoppers for powdered ingredients;
- a respective controllable outlet connected to each respective storage hopper and operable to release controlled amounts of one or more powdered ingredients in the respective storage hopper;
- a controllable liquid supply for releasing controlled amounts of a liquid;
- a mixer;
- and
- a control system including a user interface for capturing data for a user;
- wherein
- the user interface is configured to capture body weight and body fat index data for the user;
- the control system is configured to calculate a lean body mass of the user from the body weight and body fat index data captured by the user interface;
- the control system is configured to use the lean body mass of the user calculated by the control system to determine a respective quantity of one or more powdered ingredients to be released from each respective storage hopper and a quantity of liquid to be released from the controllable liquid to create a nutritional product;
- the control system is configured to send a signal to the controllable liquid supply to release the quantity of liquid determined by the control system and to send a signal to each respective controllable outlet to release from the respective storage hopper the respective quantity of the one or more powdered ingredients determined by the control system into the mixer to be mixed before being dispensed into a container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.