Anheuser-busch, Inc.

Anheuser-busch Inbev S.a.

Other

Patrick O'Riordan

Jerome Pellaud

Frank Z Hellwig

Wilfried Lossignol

Aaron Penn

Hilary Farnsworth

Neeraj Sharma

Maisie Devine

Doreen Swift

Ralph Cassara

Glenn Drost

Robert Gaafar

Rodney McGaugh

James P Keane

Peter Daily

Peter Kay

Jonathan Stewart

Joseph Toro

Lee Crossley

Peter Daly

The present invention discloses an opening tool for opening and/or removing a tab portion of a beverage can. The opening tool includes a hollow housing. The hollow housing includes a generally cylindrical housing body having a top end, a bottom end, an outer surface, an inner surface and an open cavity extending from a top end towards a bottom end of the housing body. The opening tool further includes one or more claws, having a claw body extending between a claw end portion and a claw tip such that the tip of each of the claws is adapted to be hangingly disposed within the open cavity of hollow housing. In operation, when a beverage can is passed through the hollow housing from the bottom end towards the top end, the claw tip of at least one of the claws engages and pulls-opens the tab portion while the beverage can moves out of the housing.

Opening tool for beverage cans

The present disclosure provides an automatic vending machine for dispensing beverage cans. The machine includes a main housing having a can delivery slot. The housing includes a refrigerant compartment for storing the beverage cans. The housing further includes a delivery sub-system for delivering a beverage can from the refrigerant compartment to the delivery slot accessible to a consumer. The delivery sub-system is configured to orient and open the can while delivering to the delivery slot.

Automatic vending machine for beverage cans

The present invention discloses an opening tool () for opening and/or removing a tab portion () of a beverage can (). The opening tool includes a hollow housing (). The hollow housing includes a generally cylindrical housing body () having a top end (ET), a bottom end (EB), an outer surface (), an inner surface () and an open cavity () extending from a top end towards a bottom end of the housing body. The opening tool further includes one or more claws (), having a claw body () extending between a claw end portion () and a claw tip () such that the tip of each of the claws is adapted to be hangingly disposed within the open cavity of hollow housing. In operation, when a beverage can is passed through the hollow housing from the bottom end towards the top end, the claw tip of at least one of the claws engages and pulls-opens the tab portion while the beverage can moves out of the housing.

A system for making a personalized malt-based beverage may comprise at least one packaged base liquid and at least one separately packaged flavor ingredient. The at least one packaged base liquid may comprise at least about 0.1% wt ethyl alcohol, at least about 3% wt malt extract solids, and a carbon dioxide level between about zero grams per liter and about 1.5 grams per liter. The separately packaged flavor ingredient may comprise a dry ingredient.

Systems and methods for customized fermented beverages

A method of decarbonating fermented liquids in-line may include directing a carbonated malt-based liquid through a nozzle, and directing the carbonated malt-based liquid from the nozzle into a space maintained at a partial vacuum pressure. The method may further include maintaining the carbonated malt-based beverage in the space until substantially all of the carbon dioxide dissolved within the carbonated malt-based beverage has been removed to provide a non-carbonated liquid, and removing the non-carbonated liquid from the space at substantially the same rate that the carbonated malt-based liquid is directed into the space.

Methods for decarbonating fermented liquids

A system for carbonating a personalized beverage may comprise a base container including at least one sidewall defining a liquid storage area, and a carbon dioxide storage member configured to be sealingly coupled to said base container. The system may further comprise a carbon dioxide cartridge configured to selectively release carbon dioxide when engaged with said carbon dioxide storage member, and wherein said carbon dioxide storage member further comprises a pressure regulator configured to, when actuated, release the said carbon dioxide from said carbon dioxide cartridge at a rate configured to carbonate a beverage within said liquid storage over a period of time greater than 6 hours and less than 36 hours.

Systems for carbonating customized beverages

Shaped beverage can

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South Melbourne, Australia

Patrick O'Riordan