US 11,939,159 B2
System for dispensing ingredients
Kent A. Deemter, Hudsonville, MI (US); R. William Kneifel, II, West Bloomfield, MI (US); Eric Brasseur, Detroit, MI (US); Edward Gleich, Detroit, MI (US); Anita Klopfenstein, Detroit, MI (US); David Scrivano, South Lyon, MI (US); Dana Tilley, Detroit, MI (US); Thomas Hennessy, Royal Oak, MI (US); Kyle M. Bey, Davison, MI (US); Evan Allen, Detroit, MI (US); and Alex Szmatula, Detroit, MI (US)
Assigned to Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc., Detroit, MI (US)
Filed by Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc., Detroit, MI (US)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/410,914.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/070,026, filed on Aug. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0063912 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B65G 1/08 (2006.01); A47J 47/01 (2006.01); A47J 47/08 (2006.01); B65G 1/10 (2006.01); B65G 54/02 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/08 (2013.01) [A47J 47/01 (2013.01); A47J 47/08 (2013.01); B65G 1/10 (2013.01); B65G 54/02 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for dispensing ingredients, the system comprising:
a cabinet that is refrigerated via a cooling system;
a conveyor disposed beneath the cabinet and including a dispensing region in communication with an interior of the cabinet through a dispenser opening, the conveyor being at ambient atmosphere, wherein the cabinet is insulated from the conveyor by an air curtain formed across the dispenser opening by the cooling system;
a plurality of containers removably disposed within the cabinet, each of the containers having an outlet disposed above the dispenser opening and including an ejector operable to dispense an ingredient through the outlet; and
one or more bins removably received within the conveyor, the bins operable to be moved by the conveyor between a first position corresponding to a first one of the containers in the dispensing region and a second position corresponding to a second one of the containers in the dispensing region.