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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2023
Filed:
May. 30, 2018
Societe Des Produits Nestle S.a., Vevey, CH;
Da Mi Byun, Lausanne, CH;
Bertrand Guyon, Pontarlier, FR;
Marco Magatti, Lausanne, CH;
Eric Meyer, Pully, CH;
Nicolas Obliger, Franey, FR;
Societe des Produits Nestle S.A., Vevey, CH;
Abstract
A machine () for preparing and dispensing a beverage has an outside housing () having one or more outside faces (). The machine includes a user-interface device () movable from: a deployed operative position adjacent to a face () of such one or more outside faces () so that the device () is accessible by a user; to a retracted storage position in the outside housing (). The user-interface device () is movable from its deployed operative position into its retracted storage position and vice versa along a first direction (') and a second direction (″) that is non-parallel to the first direction (′).