US 11,700,969 B2
Beverage machine with a collapsible interface
Da Mi Byun, Lausanne (CH); Bertrand Guyon, Pontarlier (FR); Marco Magatti, Lausanne (CH); Eric Meyer, Pully (CH); and Nicolas Obliger, Franey (FR)
Assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A., Vevey (CH)
Appl. No. 16/617,699
Filed by SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A., Vevey (CH)
PCT Filed May 30, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/064138
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 27, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/219984, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 6, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17173873 (EP), filed on Jun. 1, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0178721 A1, Jun. 11, 2020
Int. Cl. A47J 31/36 (2006.01); A47J 31/44 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 31/3676 (2013.01) [A47J 31/4403 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A machine for preparing and dispensing a beverage, the machine comprising:
an outside housing having one or more outside faces; and
a user-interface device movable between a deployed operative position and a retracted storage position along a first direction and a second direction that is non-parallel to the first direction, the user-interface device being configured:
to be secured in the deployed operative position and/or the retracted storage position by at least one of a friction force, a magnetic force, a clipping arrangement, or a locking arrangement; and/or
to interrupt powering of the machine in the retracted storage position.