US 12,344,519 B2
Beverage dispensing machine and pouch for use with beverage dispensing machine
Marshal Chang, Westminster, MD (US); Jeremy M. Fallis, Jr., Bethlehem, PA (US); Brian Orme, Phoenixville, PA (US); Derrick Du, San Bruno, CA (US); Charles Le Pere, Cork (IE); Courtney Cavanaugh, Cork (IE); Simon Gatrall, Cork (IE); Jonathan Downing, Cork (IE); and Jon-William Murphy, Cork (IE)
Assigned to LNJ Group, LLC, Glen Head, NY (US)
Filed by LNJ Group, LLC, Glen Head, NY (US)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/548,353.
Application 17/548,353 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/553,168, filed on Aug. 27, 2019, granted, now 11,608,259.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/723,068, filed on Aug. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0274822 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. B67D 1/08 (2006.01); B67D 1/12 (2006.01); F25B 21/02 (2006.01)
CPC B67D 1/0869 (2013.01) [B67D 1/1211 (2013.01); F25B 21/02 (2013.01)] 37 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A beverage dispensing device comprising:
a beverage reservoir;
a receptacle that receives a beverage container including a beverage and discharges the beverage from the beverage container into the beverage reservoir;
a cutting mechanism that opens the beverage container to release the beverage therefrom, wherein the cutting mechanism comprises a cutting blade coupled to a motor that moves the cutting blade in and out of contact with the beverage container to repeatedly cut and/or agitate the beverage container;
a cooling system comprising one or more thermoelectric coolers including one or more plate-like surfaces along the flow path, the cooling system performing at least one of chilling or warming the beverage that flows over at least part of the plate-like surface;
a pump that transfers the beverage from the beverage reservoir to the cooling system;
an aeration component that receives and aerates the beverage from the cooling system; and
a discharge nozzle coupled to the aeration component that dispenses the beverage.