A beverage dispenser includes a housing and a user interface disposed on a vertical corner of the housing. The user interface includes one or more buttons that are accessible from a front view and a side view of the housing.

There is provided an aeration device including an interchangeable aeration element having needles arranged in an aeration pattern, a slider including the needles, a slider guide element engaged with the slider, a slider spring element biased to position the slider in an undeployed position, wherein the slider is displaced in a downward direction away from the top end of the aeration device frame towards the bottom end of the aeration device frame when a user applies an operating force to the slider, wherein the slider spring element applies a return force on the slider encouraging the slider to return to the undeployed position, and wherein, when the slider is in a fully deployed position at a maximum displacement from the top end of the aeration device frame, the plurality of puck aeration needles extend passed the bottom end of the aeration device, and a method of using the aeration device.

There is provided an aeration device including an interchangeable aeration element having needles arranged in an aeration pattern, a slider including the needles, a slider guide element engaged with the slider, a slider spring element biased to position the slider in an undeployed position, wherein the slider is displaced in a downward direction away from the top end of the aeration device frame towards the bottom end of the aeration device frame when a user applies an operating force to the slider, wherein the slider spring element applies a return force on the slider encouraging the slider to return to the undeployed position, and wherein, when the slider is in a fully deployed position at a maximum displacement from the top end of the aeration device frame, the plurality of puck aeration needles extend passed the bottom end of the aeration device, and a method of using the aeration device.

Provided is an alimentary-product assembling and dispensing device comprising: a plurality of alimentary-ingredient dispensers positioned to dispense respective ingredients in a plurality of different locations of a robotic work environment; a robot configured to receive an open-top vessel from an open-top-vessel dispenser and move the open-top vessel to the different locations to receive different ingredients from the plurality of alimentary-ingredient dispensers, wherein the robot comprises four or fewer degrees of freedom; and a vending aperture through which consumers retrieve vended alimentary products assembled by the robot from ingredients dispensed from the plurality of alimentary-ingredient dispensers.

A beverage brewer includes a pump, an intake tube assembly connected to an inlet port of the pump at a pump end, an outflow tube assembly connected to an outlet port of the pump at a pump end, a brewing material holder assembly configured to hold ground brewing material and arranged at an issue end of the outflow tube assembly, and a container volume configured to accommodate a container assembly, arranged at an issue portion of the holder assembly. A suction end of the intake tube assembly is arranged within an interior of the container volume. The pump is configured to draw fluid from within the container volume through the intake tube assembly and to issue the fluid into the holder assembly through the outflow tube assembly, thereby brewing a beverage in the holder assembly. The holder assembly is configured to issue the brewed beverage into the container volume.

A device for production of milk foam with adjustable temperature includes a pump for conveying the milk from at least one container in lines to an outlet, an air supply for delivering air into the line, a continuous-flow heater and a throttle device. The continuous-flow heater can be disposed on the pressure side of the pump and the throttle device can be disposed downstream from the continuous-flow heater.

A steam wand assembly that comprises a steam wand pivotable about a pivot axis and a dampening assembly configured to resist pivotable motion of the steam wand about the pivot axis. The steam wand assembly further includes a bias assembly configured to bias the steam wand in a first direction along the pivot axis such that the dampening assembly is configured to moderate a steam wand velocity in the first direction.

A method of printing with coffee-based ink comprises providing a thermal ink-jet cartridge having a quantity of a coffee-based ink disposed within; receiving optical density data from a user via a touch-screen computerized interface, where the data describes an optical density of the coffee-based ink present within an ink-jet pod; and computing a customized droplet-size for the coffee-based ink in its current state within the thermal ink-jet cartridge. A suitable printing apparatus can include coffee-based ink in a cartridge, an image-processing system, an image processing module for determining, inter alia, droplet size and missing/defective nozzles, and a nozzle-compensation module. Suitable ink formulations are human-edible and aqueous.

A milk supply device for supplying milk from a milk supply container to a milk dispensing device is provided. The milk supply device comprises a milk transport line which can be connected to the milk supply container and with which milk which has been taken from the milk supply container can be delivered to the milk dispensing device. The milk supply device further comprises a three-way junction, which can be operated such that optionally milk can be transported from the milk supply container to the milk dispensing device, whilst the milk transport line is sealed off by it, at the same time, relative to the cleaning agent transport line, in a fluid-impermeable manner, or cleaning agent can be conducted from the cleaning agent transport line in the direction towards the milk dispensing device and/or in the direction towards a discharge of the milk supply device.

Provided is an imitated pour-over coffee maker capable of high-temperature control, including: a body having therein a water tank and a coffee-making tank; a human-machine interface module; a first coffee-making module; a second coffee-making module; a first control module; and a second control module for reading a signal of a third temperature sensor to control a second solenoid valve to perform coffee-making commencement or perform water-return commencement for returning water to the coffee-making tank. High-temperature control can be exercised over water dispensed by the delivery head, thereby optimizing the automation of imitated pour-over coffee making.