Bedford Systems LLC

Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.

William Philip McHugh

Thomas Fedorka

Jeremy B Gordon

Thomas Paul Dutremble

Gwynn Masada

Bradford Range

Enrico Raffaele Cafaro

Scott James Grubb

Michael Sack

Peter Rae Peterson

Thomas J Novak

Steven R Raphaelson

Steven Mackey

Brian B Johnson

James E Shepard

Ian Tinkler

Geoffrey Y Smith

William T Jacobs

Stoyan Plamenov Hristov

Jonathan Alexander Brodie

Stuart Jay Foster

Kevin Thomas Brandimarte

Mario Liuzza

Heather Fisher

Patrick Lazatin

Yoav Rabino

Aaron Size

Peter Thomas Launie, Jr

Timothy MacLean

Peter Nicholas Woskov

Jordan Dean Jack Greiner

A beverage cartridge and method for forming a beverage includes dispensing beverage material from a container into an attached mixing funnel. The container and mixing funnel may be moved toward each other to open the container and release beverage material. A cover of the container may have a movable portion that moves with contact with a part of the mixing funnel to open the container. The cartridge may be vibrated to dispense beverage material from the container, and liquid provided to the mixing funnel to mix with dispensed beverage material to form a beverage.

Beverage cartridge for beverage making machines

A beverage making machine may include a cartridge holder to hold a cartridge used to form a beverage. The cartridge holder may include a lower portion arranged to receive and hold the cartridge and a movable upper portion arranged to clamp the cartridge in place. The cartridge holder may be arranged to hold upper and lower compartments of the cartridge in spaces having a different pressure, e.g., an upper compartment of the cartridge may be held under relatively high pressure, and a lower compartment may be held in a space at ambient pressure. The cartridge holder may pierce upper and/or lower compartments of the cartridge to introduce activating fluid and/or receive carbonating gas from the upper compartment, and/or to introduced pressurized air into the lower compartment to force beverage medium to exit.

Cartridge holder for beverage machine

A beverage making machine having a cartridge holder with an upper portion movable in pivotal and/or linear ways relative to a lower portion. An actuator for the cartridge portion may include a handle-actuated spur gear and link to move the upper portion, which may be guided in movement via a cam and cam follower engagement. Information from a cartridge detector may be used based on movement of cartridge holder portions, e.g., as an upper portion moves from an open position to a closed position. A mixing chamber may be held by a drawer so as to be removable, and movement of the drawer may engage/disengage the mixing chamber from a fluid supply.

A method and apparatus for opening and closing a cartridge holder of a beverage forming machine. The cartridge holder may have an opening arranged to receive and hold a cartridge with the cartridge holder. The opening may be adjustable in size and/or shape to allow the cartridge holder to receive and engage with cartridges of different size and/or shape. The cartridge holder may include one or more movable portions that are adjustable in position to effectively adjust a size and/or shape of the opening.

Beverage machine cartridge holder

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William Philip McHugh