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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7278552 | Water supplier for a beverage dispensing apparatus of a refrigerator A carbonated and non-carbonated water supplier for a beverage dispensing apparatus for a residential refrigerator. The beverage dispensing apparatus includes a drink supplier including a drink supply canister holder for holding a plurality of drink supply canisters,... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272537 | Spout for dispensing liquid from a liquid container Some embodiments of the invention provide a system for monitoring liquid consumption at one or more establishments. At each establishment, the system includes one or more spouts and a local computer. Each spout is mounted on a liquid container. Also, each spout gene... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260504 | Method, apparatus, and system for monitoring amount of liquid poured from liquid containers Some embodiments of the invention provide a system for monitoring liquid consumption at one or more establishments. At each establishment, the system includes one or more spouts and a local computer. Each spout is mounted on a liquid container. Also, each spout gene... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7196624 | Service transaction monitoring system, method, and device A system, method, and device for monitoring the dispensing of liquids, in particular, beverages dispensed at a bar or restaurant is disclosed. The device attaches to the exterior of a container and detects dispensing events by sensing tilt or motion of the container... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191916 | Device for dispensing fluid medicine A dispensing device for fluid medicine includes a housing having an opening leading to an interior and a plastic dropper bottle at least partially disposed in the interior through the opening. The bottle has a container holding fluid medicine to be dispensed and a n... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7181501 | Remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment A remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment to obtain operational data and the status of remote machines is disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with the remote machines from which ope... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171993 | Beverage dispenser with automatic cup-filling control A beverage dispenser for filling a container preferably has a nozzle through which the beverage is discharged and a pivoting lever located underneath the nozzle that detects the placement of a container so as to regulate the actuation of the dispenser. A conductive ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171451 | Remote data acquisition and transmission system and method A remote data acquisition and transmission system and method are disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with remote equipment from which operation data is acquired by the application controllers. The application controllers communicate with... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167892 | System, method and apparatus for vending machine wireless audit and cashless transaction transport The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for collecting, storing and communicating vending machine transaction data. The system preferably includes an embedded data collection and storage device that, when placed inside a vending machine, will c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164884 | Method and system for interfacing a machine controller and a wireless network A wireless interface module interfaces a machine control system, such as a vending machine controller, with one of plural wireless networks through one of plural removably coupled wireless transceivers. Communication between geographically distributed vending machin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7147131 | Method and system for dispensing hot and cold beverages from liquid concentrates The invention concerns a device for dispensing a beverage comprising a mixture of liquid, e.g. water, and at least one liquid concentrate, comprising at least two liquid nozzles connected respectively to at least one liquid source for producing a first jet of liquid... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139616 | Real-time alert mechanism for monitoring and controlling field assets via wireless and internet technologies An apparatus and system are disclosed for real-time monitoring and control of field assets. A monitoring device may be coupled to a field asset to determine the occurrence of one or more error conditions. Error conditions may be detected either as they occur or by t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7118347 | Method for activating an electric motor and a metering pump by supplying predetermined pulse intervals to supply predetermined fluid quantities The methods serves for activating an electric motor of a metering pump with which the fluid quantity (Vnom) to be delivered is set by an external impulse trigger, wherein a predetermined delivery quantity (Vnom) is allocated to each impulse (t)... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7092903 | Customer-specific merchandising program The invention is directed to facilitating the planning and ordering of a merchandising unit and associated products. A merchandising unit planning screen is presented that displays a representation of a merchandising unit having holders for holding and displaying th... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7077290 | Beverage forming and dispensing system A beverage dispensing system includes separate valves for controlling the flow rate of a diluent and a concentrate. Various concentrates of different viscosities can be used and the selected concentrate is identified. The flow rate of the concentrate is determined b... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7055528 | Applicator A dye applicator including a head with a cavity (reservoir) and a plurality of bristles in the form of pins each covered with a sponge sleeve extending into the cavity and moistened with a catalyzed dye in the cavity by capillary action. A handle is connected to the... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044335 | Self-contained beverage dispensing apparatus A self-contained beverage dispensing apparatus, which is adapted for commercial and/or home use as an alternative to traditional canned beverage service, is provided. In one embodiment, the beverage dispensing apparatus is highly portable and of sufficient dimension... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7020680 | System and method for monitoring and control of beverage dispensing equipment A remote data acquisition and transmission system and method are disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with remote beverage dispensing equipment from which operation data is acquired by the application controllers. The application controll... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013337 | Method and system for the optimal formatting, reduction and compression of DEX/UCS data A method and system for communicating data between a network operations center and a remote device is described. Vending machine state information is communicated between a vending site and a network operations center using a delta scheme. A database, maintained by ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010594 | System using environmental sensor and intelligent management and control transceiver for monitoring and controlling remote computing resources The present disclosure provides a system and apparatus for the remote monitoring and control of a computing component. An intelligent management and control transceiver (IMCT) is preferably attached to a computing component to be monitored and controlled. The IMCT p... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6961630 | Hybrid microcontroller system and method A hybrid microcontroller system for controlling a function of a device in an apparatus. The system controls the switching of the device so as to inhibit the formation of an abrupt transient spike between a pair of current switching contacts. Also, the system enables... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6934602 | Beverage dispenser including an improved electronic control system A beverage dispenser includes an electronic control system for controlling beverage dispenser components. The beverage dispenser components include at least a user interface, a dispensing valve, and a valve interface for regulating the delivery of a beverage from th... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6925335 | Real-time alert mechanism for monitoring and controlling field assets via wireless and internet technologies An apparatus and system are disclosed for the real-time monitoring and control of field assets. The monitoring device, operable to couple to a field asset, may be designed to leverage one or more technologies included in the field asset or as a stand-alone unit and ... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6912870 | Refrigerator and ice maker methods and apparatus A refrigerator includes a fresh food compartment, a freezer compartment separated from the fresh food compartment by a mullion, a water dispenser coupled to at least one of the fresh food compartment and the freezer compartment, a user interface coupled to at least ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6903654 | Automatic dispenser apparatus The invention is directed to improved automatic dispenser apparatus for dispensing sheet material and the like without contact between a user and the dispenser. Proximity detection apparatus is provided to detect the presence of a user in a detection zone generated ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6662976 | Dosing spout for mounting on a container A dosing spout for mounting on a container has a liquid outlet valve which, at placing of the spout in an electric field, can be actuated by the field for opening of outflow of liquid directly from the container and out through the mouth of the spout, and... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6595107 | Beverage server A beverage server and beverage brewer. Contacts are provided between the brewer and server, and the server is conductively coupleable to and removable from the brewer. The server is configured to detect a level of beverage retained in the server and commu... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6427871 | Programmable liquid dispensing device with user readable indicators A dispensing device with user readable indicators for tracking information associated with a succession of pouring events. Each pouring event dispensing a pre-determined volume of liquid from a liquid holding container, upon which the dispensing device is... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6409046 | Methods of dispensing liquids from pouring heads Methods of pouring liquids from bottles have the steps of providing a pouring head with at least two functionally different modes of pouring, i.e. electronically timed pouring with automatic shut-off, and free pouring either with or without an annunciator... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6393966 | Beverage server A beverage server and beverage brewer. Contacts are provided between the brewer and server, and the server is conductively coupleable to and removable from the brewer. The server is configured to detect a level of beverage retained in the server and commu... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6223938 | Machine for dispensing a predetermined quantity of coffee A machine for dispensing a predetermined quantity of liquid upon actuation of a start switch is described herein. The machine includes a timer and at least one peristaltic pump connected to the timer. Upon actuation of the start switch, the timer energize... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6089409 | Beverage server Beverage servers for retaining beverages at a desired heated temperature. Prior art beverage servers have attempted to maintain the temperature of a brewed beverage retained therein in a variety of ways. One form of beverage server utilizes a heat resista... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6046447 | Triangulation position detection with fill level control A method and apparatus is provided to detect the position of an object, such as a container, in a target window using the concept of triangulation of energy radiation. A transmitter emits a pulse of energy in response to a periodic clock pulse which is at... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5967367 | Drinks-dispensing apparatus A multi-head drinks-dispensing apparatus having a group of drinks-dispensing heads each arranged for supply with drink ingredients through fluid control valves. A keypad has a first group of keys for selecting the type of drink and the dispensing head to ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5960997 | Beverage dispensing apparatus A beverage dispensing apparatus comprises a system for dispensing a base beverage including a control for controlling dispensing of a quantity of the base beverage, and a system for dispensing at least one flavoring for admixture with the dispensed base b... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5930146 | Drink dispenser with memory means A drink dispenser can sell or reserve a drink even during a sale of a drink, thereby ensuring the sale of drinks. Namely, if any one of drink sale buttons is pressed while any one of drink discharge valve relays is opened to sell a drink, this request for... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5845824 | Beverage dispenser with electrically controlled clutch A beverage dispenser includes a body having a bore with an inlet, an outlet and a valve seat therebetween. A valve stem has a seal to selectively engage the valve seat to open and close the bore to a flow of beverage between the inlet and outlet. A servin... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5839483 | Beverage dispenser with serving time monitor A switch, mounted on a standard beverage tap, provides an electrical signal indicating when beverage is being dispensed into a serving container. The electrical signal is applied to a monitor which measures the period of time that the beverage flows from ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5803320 | Carbonated coffee beverage dispenser The invention relates to an apparatus for dispensing cold, carbonated coffee beverages. The apparatus comprises a plurality of reservoirs for holding the beverage ingredients. Each reservoir is selectively connected to at least one dispensing pump that is... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5769271 | Apparatus and methods for monitoring a beverage dispenser, in particular a counter system In a drink-dispensing installation, an authorized individual is required to identify himself by entering a code into a code-registering station. The drinks-dispensing installation includes an automatic valve and a manually-actuable hand-dispensing valve c... | 06/23/1998 |
