Abstract

A configuration for an autonomous food preparation and meal production machine receives a menu order. A computer system of the machine retrieves from a database an automated recipe for fulfilment of the menu order and determines an availability of a threshold of ingredients to fulfill the menu order. The computer system transmits preparation instructions to fulfill the menu order to stations having controllers in a production line. The production line de-nests a vessel and moves it along a production line. The production line, in response to the controllers receiving the preparation instructions, automatically dispenses ingredients of the menu order into the vessel from dispensers, steams and heats the ingredients and places the vessel with the fulfilled menu order into a locker. The computer system transmits to a device a signal corresponding to the fulfillment of the menu order.

IPC Classes  ?

• G07F 17/40 - Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articlesCoin-freed facilities or services for devices for accepting orders, advertisements, or the like
• A47J 37/01 - Vessels uniquely adapted for baking
• G07F 11/04 - Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles from non-movable magazines in which magazines the articles are stored one vertically above the other
• G07F 11/62 - Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles in which the articles are stored in compartments in fixed receptacles
• B65D 83/00 - Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents

Abstract

A configuration for an autonomous food preparation and meal production machine receives a menu order. A computer system of the machine retrieves from a database an automated recipe for fulfilment of the menu order and determines an availability of a threshold of ingredients to fulfill the menu order. The computer system transmits preparation instructions to fulfill the menu order to stations having controllers in a production line. The production line de-nests a vessel and moves it along a production line. The production line, in response to the controllers receiving the preparation instructions, automatically dispenses ingredients of the menu order into the vessel from dispensers, steams and heats the ingredients and places the vessel with the fulfilled menu order into a locker. The computer system transmits to a device a signal corresponding to the fulfillment of the menu order.

IPC Classes  ?

• A47J 27/04 - Cooking-vessels for cooking food in steamDevices for extracting fruit juice by means of steam
• A47J 44/00 - Multi-purpose machines for preparing food
• A23L 5/10 - General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying

Abstract

A system for rehydrating a food item includes a housing, a casing, an actuator, a moisture source, and a plate. The moisture source includes an outlet and an enclosed vessel having liquid. The liquid is released by steam or pressure as moisture into a first end of a conduit. The system has a plate with a top surface, a bottom surface and an opening traversing between the two. A casing couples with the top surface of the plate. The second end of the conduit couples with the opening. The casing has a pivot point. An actuator couples the casing on a first end and the housing at a second end. The actuator moves the casing from a first position to a second position by rotation about the pivot point. In the first position, the moisture flows towards the plate and in the second position moisture flow is idled.

IPC Classes  ?

• A23L 5/00 - Preparation or treatment of foods or foodstuffs, in generalFood or foodstuffs obtained therebyMaterials therefor
• A23L 5/10 - General methods of cooking foods, e.g. by roasting or frying

Abstract

A system for dispensing food is described. The system has one or more cavities that are configured to hold food items. Each cavity has an opening and a movable wall opposite the opening. The cavities are supported by a support matrix that holds each cavity at a specified location. A punch with an actuation system is configured to align with a cavity at a specified location and extend to compress the cavity wall to dispense the food item in the cavity. A controller of the system receives instructions comprising a food item order. The controller determines the location of a cavity holding the ordered food item and transmits those instructions to the actuation mechanism so that the actuation mechanism aligns the punch with the cavity and extends the punch to dispense the food item.

IPC Classes  ?

• G07F 11/18 - Recessed drawers
• G07F 9/10 - Casings, e.g. with means for heating or cooling
• G07F 11/20 - Pushers actuated directly by hand
• G07F 11/62 - Coin-freed apparatus for dispensing, or the like, discrete articles in which the articles are stored in compartments in fixed receptacles
• G07F 17/00 - Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articlesCoin-freed facilities or services