US 12,281,005 B2
Beverage dispenser with dispensing button actuatable by pivotable vessel-shelf
Omer Ben Baruch, Kiryat Ono (IL); Eyal Krystal, Kfar-Saba (IL); Dany Ascher, Kibbutz Mishmarot (IL); and Orly Nahum, Ramat Gan (IL)
Assigned to STRAUSS WATER LTD., Or Yehuda (IL)
Appl. No. 18/003,944
Filed by STRAUSS WATER LTD, Or Yehuda (IL)
PCT Filed Jul. 1, 2021, PCT No. PCT/IL2021/050815
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/003698, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 275787 (IL), filed on Jul. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0278849 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B67D 1/08 (2006.01); B67D 1/12 (2006.01); B67D 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC B67D 1/0894 (2013.01) [B67D 1/12 (2013.01); B67D 1/16 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A beverage dispenser comprising:
a housing;
a beverage dispensing outlet;
a container-supporting shelf, pivotably articulated to the housing and displaceable about a pivot axis between an open state in which the container-supporting shelf is substantially parallel to a base of the housing and configured to support a removable container thereon below the dispensing outlet, and a closed state in which the container-supporting shelf is substantially parallel to an external sidewall portion of the housing,
one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements, located on said external sidewall portion of the housing; and
when in the closed state of the container-supporting shelf, a section of the container-supporting shelf is aligned and in contact with said one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements, such that application of pressure onto said section of the container-supporting shelf when in the closed state causes actuation of the one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements, and when in the open state of the container-supporting shelf, the one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements are user-accessible,
wherein said closed state comprises a first closed position in which the section of the container-supporting shelf is aligned and in contact with said one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements without applying pressure onto the one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements, and a second closed position in which the section of the container-supporting shelf applies pressure onto the one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements, the container-supporting shelf being biased to said first closed position,
said one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements have a pressed position and a non-pressed position, and biased to the non-pressed position by a biasing element, and
when in the second closed position, the transition of the one or more first beverage dispensing actuation elements from the pressed position into the non-pressed position biases the container-supporting shelf into the first closed position.