Bedford Systems LLC

Pepsico, Inc.

Miles Hember

Trevor John Beckett

Jeremy B Gordon

Thomas Paul Dutremble

Gwynn Masada

Charles Evan O'Neill

Steven T Jersey

Gary Stacey

Alexander David Norman

Farideh Goudarzi

Steven Headen

Andrew Potter

Stephen Brown

Enrico Raffaele Cafaro

Scott James Grubb

Peter Rae Peterson

Thomas Fedorka

Thomas J Novak

Steven R Raphaelson

Steven Mackey

Brian B Johnson

Mario Liuzza

Scott Grubb

Steven Raphaelson

A carbonated beverage maker includes a water reservoir, a carbon dioxide creation chamber, and a carbonation chamber. The water reservoir holds ice water and has a first impeller and a shroud surrounding the first impeller. The carbon dioxide creation chamber contains chemical elements and receives warm water. The chemical elements react with each other to create carbon dioxide when the warm water is introduced to the carbon dioxide creation chamber. The carbonation chamber is connected to the water reservoir and the carbon dioxide creation chamber. The carbonation chamber has a second impeller that includes a stem portion and blades. The stem portion and the blades define conduits therein. The blades create a low pressure region in a lower portion of the carbonation chamber such that carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide creation chamber flows through the conduits to the low pressure region.

Carbonation cup for carbonated beverage maker

Carbonated beverage makers, methods, and systems

A beverage making machine may employ a mixing chamber to mix a beverage medium with a precursor liquid, such as carbonated water. The mixing chamber may have a precursor liquid inlet coupled to a precursor liquid supply, a beverage medium chamber to receive a beverage medium into the beverage medium chamber, and a dispense outlet from which beverage medium and precursor liquid are dispensed, e.g., into a user's cup. The beverage medium chamber may include a chamber inlet coupled to the precursor liquid inlet, e.g., so precursor liquid can enter the chamber when a pressure is low in the beverage medium chamber, and a chamber outlet downstream of the chamber inlet that is coupled to the dispense outlet, e.g., so that beverage medium can exit the chamber.

Mixing chamber for beverage machine

Method of preparing a beverage with mixing chamber

Systems, methods and cartridges for carbonating or otherwise dissolving gas in a precursor liquid, such as water, to form a beverage. Carbonating gas can be provided to a tank via the tank outlet, thereby purging at least a portion of a dispense line leading from the tank to a dispensing station. A single pump may be used to deliver liquid to the tank, e.g., for carbonation, and to pump pressurized air to dispense liquid from the tank. A water trap may help remove moisture from carbonating gas.

Flow circuit for carbonated beverage machine

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