US 12,252,390 B2
Beverage dispensing machine with cup dispenser
Zachary Dresser, Batavia, IL (US); David Njaastad, Palatine, IL (US); Michael Graef, Aurora, IL (US); Daniel Muskin-Pierret, Oak Park, IL (US); Brian Mathews, Sycamore, IL (US); and Kevin Michael Carrara, Des Plaines, IL (US)
Assigned to Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc., Osseo, MN (US)
Filed by Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc., Osseo, MN (US)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/053,620.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/277,359, filed on Nov. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0141811 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. B67D 1/08 (2006.01); G07F 13/06 (2006.01); G07F 13/10 (2006.01)
CPC B67D 1/0894 (2013.01) [B67D 1/0892 (2013.01); G07F 13/065 (2013.01); G07F 13/10 (2013.01); B67D 2210/00076 (2013.01); B67D 2210/00078 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated beverage dispensing system having a front and a back and a first side opposite a second side, the automated beverage dispensing system further comprising:
a conveyance system that defines a plurality of cup locations each with a respective cup holder and operates to sequentially move the plurality of cup locations through a circuit comprising a plurality of indexed locations; and
a cup dispensing system configured to receive a first supply of cups at a first dispensing assembly, the first dispensing assembly comprising a first selective release device, the first dispensing assembly coincides with a first indexed location of the plurality of indexed locations and the cup dispensing system is configured to receive a second supply of cups at a second dispensing assembly comprising a second selective release device, the second dispensing assembly coincides with a second indexed location of the plurality of indexed locations, the cup dispensing system operable to dispense a cup from the first supply of cups to a first cup location of the plurality of cup locations on the conveyance system at the first indexed location and operable to dispense a cup from the second supply of cups to a second cup location of the plurality of cup locations on the conveyance system at the second indexed location;
wherein the first selective release device comprises a cam assembly comprising a cam body, a cam extending about the cam body and radially away from the cam body, the cam comprising a cam edge, a leading cam surface, and a trailing cam surface, the cam assembly comprising a resiliently deformable cup support flap radially extending from the cam body.