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Anheuser-busch Inbev S.a.

Peter Daily

Hilary Farnsworth

Patrick O'Riordan

Ralph Cassara

Maisie Devine

Glenn Drost

Robert Gaafar

Doreen Swift

Rodney McGaugh

Joseph Toro

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.

Opening tool for beverage cans

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Hauppage, NY, United States of America

Peter Daily