Nestec S.a.

Frank Kräuchi

Matthieu Ozanne

Stefan Kaeser

Antoine Cahen

Alexandre Kollep

Alfred Yoakim

Peter Möri

Dietmar Becker

Rudolf Schenk

Guido Piai

Gerd Helf

Sandro Florin

Christophe Schneider

Bernhard Kreitmayr

Dimitar Georgiev

Roland Piller

Stefan Käser

An electric beverage preparation machine has an arrangement for processing one or more beverage ingredients to dispense a beverage; a control unit connected to the beverage processing arrangement for controlling the processing of one or more beverage ingredients; a beverage user-selector for requesting a beverage; an operative mode in which such machine is immediately ready to process one or more beverage ingredients; and a start-up mode in which such machine is not ready to process one or more beverage ingredients and is brought into the beverage preparation mode from a low electric consumption standby mode or from an electrically switched off state. The control unit is arranged to store in the start-up mode any beverage request via the beverage user-selector and initiate automatically the processing of one or more beverage ingredients upon entering the operative mode after leaving the start-up mode.

User-friendly start-up mode of a beverage preparation machine

A device for preparing a liquid food or beverage having an outermost housing with faces that are arranged to shield at least part of a liquid food or beverage module. A face of the housing has a connection to an appliance. This face is arranged to support mechanically such an appliance. The connection is disconnectably connectable by a user to the appliance. The housing is so arranged that the appliance is removably mountable onto the housing face by a user.

Liquid food or beverage machine with combinable accessories

A machine for preparing a liquid food or beverage that includes a liquid food or beverage module having a liquid or beverage outlet; a support device that is located under the beverage outlet and that has an arrangement for evacuating liquid; and a collector, such as drip tray, for collecting liquid evacuated by the support device. The support device has a dispensing area on or above which a recipient may be placed for collecting a liquid food or beverage dispensed from the outlet. The support device also includes a non-dispensing area adjacent to the dispensing area, the non-dispensing area being arranged to support recipients upon use and for evacuating liquid to the collector.

Liquid food or beverage machine having a drip tray and a cup support

A machine for preparing a liquid food or beverage has an outermost housing that includes a top part and downwardly extending sidewalls which cover and shield at least part of a liquid food or beverage module. The downwardly extending sidewalls have a portion that forms, optionally together with a portion of the top part, a grip seizable by a human hand such that the machine can be carried and displaced single handed by seizure of the grip.

One hand carriable liquid food or beverage machine

A modular method of manufacturing a set of beverage production machines with different beverage-related functions. The machines are designed for producing a beverage on the basis of pre-portioned ingredient packages. The method includes providing a plurality of identical core units having control circuitry and a beverage production module for housing an ingredient package and feeding a liquid to the interior of the ingredient package, providing a plurality of different base platforms that differ as to beverage production functions, and manufacturing a set of different beverage production machines by mounting respectively at least one of the core units on a top surface of one of the differing base platforms while also mounting water reservoirs on the base platforms.

Modular manufacturing of beverage production machines

A machine for preparing liquid food or beverage from a beverage or food ingredient contained in a capsule or pod. The machine includes a liquid food or beverage preparation unit arranged to receive capsules or pods for use and evacuate capsules or pods after use; a housing having an opening leading into a seat to which capsules or pods are evacuated from the preparation unit; and a receptacle having a cavity forming a storage space for collecting capsules or pods evacuated to the seat into the receptacle to a level of fill. The receptacle is insertable into the seat for collecting capsules or pods and is removable from the seat for emptying the collected capsules or pods. The preparation machine further comprises a mechanism to inhibit jamming of the receptacle at removal from the seat when the level of fill in the receptacle extends above the opening of the housing.

Used capsule or pod receptacle for liquid food or beverage machines

An appliance for conditioning a liquid made of or based on milk, in particular for preparing heated liquid or a cold or heated frothed liquid. The appliance includes a tank for receiving the liquid that is to be conditioned; a closed compartment secured to the tank; and an electric device located therein for imparting a conditioning effect to the liquid. The compartment is made water impervious and washable under running water without infiltration thereof into the compartment containing the electric device.

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Epautheyres, Switzerland

Frank Kräuchi