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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert G. McGarrah, Brookfield, CT (US);
Assignee:
PepsiCo. Inc., Purchase, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B67D 5/56 ; A47J 3/140 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B67D 5/56 ; A47J 3/140 ;
Abstract
A beverage mixture forming apparatus includes a batch vessel, a first valve distributing a mixture of hot water and a beverage concentrate into the batch vessel, a second valve for distributing cold water into the batch vessel, and a controller. The controller controls the first valve to intermittently distribute the mixture of the hot water and the beverage concentrate and the second valve to intermittently distribute the cold water in forming a batch of the beverage mixture.