Patents by Inventor Peter T. Foster

Peter T. Foster has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20040133473
    Abstract: A method of serving a drink at a counter 6 of a drinks bar comprises providing a digital camera 2 connected to a printer 3 adjacent a nozzle 5 for delivering draught beverage into a glass 4. The camera takes a picture of the ambient surroundings and/or of a person in or adjacent to the bar, and then the printer prints the picture at 7 on the glass at the time or shortly before the drink is served in the glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Iain W. Anderson, Wendy G. Box, Peter T. Foster, Rachel J. Galt, Stuart W. Molzahn, David E. Quain, Stephen P. Smith, Robert A. Wright
  • Publication number: 20040129342
    Abstract: A method of dispensing draught beverage comprises delivering draught beverage (which may be alcoholic, for example lager) from a nozzle 2 into a drinking glass 5 which is being rotated by a rotatably driven platform 8. The nozzle 2 and platform can be part of a font or beverage dispensing apparatus at a drinks bar. In the vicinity of the rotating glass is a rotating visual display which is provided by a cylinder 9 which rotates with the platform and bears a succession of cinematographic representations or pictures 10 which move within an enclosure 6 having a viewing window 4 through which the moving representations are viewed as an animated display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Iain W. Anderson, Wendy G. Box, Peter T. Foster, Rachel J. Galt, Stuart W. Molzahn, David E. Quain, Stephen P. Smith, Alan R. Wright