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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2014
Automatic Bar Controls, Inc., Vacaville, CA (US);
Thomas R. Hecht, Winters, CA (US);
Richard A. Martindale, Vacaville, CA (US);
Bret D. Baker, Vacaville, CA (US);
Automatic Bar Controls, Inc., Vacaville, CA (US);
Abstract
A beverage dispensing apparatus including a lever assembly where the lever assembly has a base and a at least one elongated arm. The base has a bottom configured to mate with a beverage dispensing device, a top side opposite the bottom and apertures penetrating the base from top to bottom configured to align with buttons on the beverage dispensing apparatus. The at least one elongated lever has a top surface, a bottom surface, a first end and a second end configured to extend away from the centerline of the beverage dispensing apparatus. When the lever assembly is installed on a beverage dispensing device, buttons extending from the top of the beverage dispensing device extend up through the apertures and pressed against the bottom surface of the at least one elongated lever, biasing the at least one lever upward and the when the lever is pressed, it pushes against the button of the beverage dispensing apparatus to dispense a beverage.