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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2016
Evoca S.p.a., Milan, IT;
Laurent Houtsaeger, Valbrembo, IT;
EVOCA S.P.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A dispenser () of pods () for the production of brewed beverages; the dispenser () is equipped with a magazine () for holding pods () arranged in random order, a belt conveyor () designed to extract the pods () one by one from the storage compartment () to feed then to an outlet () in a feed direction (), and an agitator device (), which cooperates with the conveyor () to move pods () away from the conveyor () and is defined by a rotor having a hub (), which is rotationally mounted about an axis () transversal to the feed direction () to rotate in the opposite direction to the belt conveyor (), and blades (), which, during rotation, define with the belt conveyor () and upstream of the outlet (), a gap () designed to allow pods () lying flat on the belt () of the conveyor () to reach the outlet ().