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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2019
NE Innovations Limited, Altrincham, GB;
Brian George Kennedy, Cheshire, GB;
Edward Alexander Bedford, Farmingville, NY (US);
John R Laverack, Southbury, CT (US);
George Edward Riehm, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Kurt Raymond Weseman, West Haven, CT (US);
Bruce Renfrew, Leicester, GB;
James Williamson, Leicester, GB;
NE Innovations Limited, Altrincham, GB;
Abstract
A dispensing apparatus for dispensing a beverage preparation ingredient from a pod. The dispensing apparatus comprises a pod support region configured to support a pod, an actuator configured to engage with a corresponding actuator engagement region of the pod, and a rotation mechanism for rotating the pod. The apparatus is configured to cause the actuation member to cause an opening to be formed in a pod supported by the pod support region. The apparatus is further configured to cause the rotation mechanism to cause the pod to rotate about an axis of rotation during a dispensing operation, so as to cause the beverage preparation ingredient to be released from the pod via said opening.