The Coca-Cola Company

Stephen Houghton

Mark Dockrill

Andrew Mark Angus

Kenneth Andrew Nicoll

Mark David Rob

Sean Pickett

Ravisha Sellahewa

Scott Alexander Anderson

Mark Brian Dockrill

The present application provides an automated beverage dispenser for dispensing a beverage and ice into a cup. The automated beverage dispenser may include an ice dispensing station with an ice auger and a weight sensor, a beverage dispensing station, and a control device. The control device instructs the ice auger to fill the cup with a predetermined amount of ice and instructs the beverage dispensing station to fill the cup with a predetermined amount of the beverage in response to a weight of the cup as determined by the weight sensor.

Automated beverage dispensing system with ice and beverage dispensing

The present application provides an automated beverage dispenser using a number of cups and a number of lids. The automated beverage dispenser may include a lid stack with the number of lids, a lidding mechanism, and a positioning device for maneuvering the lidding mechanism so as to remove one of the number of lids from the lid stack and to attach the lid to one of the number of cups.

Automated beverage dispensing system with cup lidding and beverage identification

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Vermont South, Australia

Stephen Houghton