Patents by Inventor Willy Van Esch
Willy Van Esch 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).
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Patent number: 10600273Abstract: The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module includes a product row configured to contain a number of products therein. The product vending module also includes a product gate positioned about the product row and rotatable from a closed position preventing access to the number of products to an open position allowing access to one of the number of products while preventing access to a remainder of the number of products, the product gate including a biased base. The product vending module further includes a product locking system in communication with the product gate, the product locking system including a locking pin releasably engaging the biased base and movable from a first allowing rotation of the product gate toward the closed position to a second position restricting rotation of the product gate toward the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Bart Carpentier, Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch, Jacobus P. M. Dessing
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Patent number: 9633503Abstract: The present application provides a vendor for vending a number of products. The vendor may include a cooler and a vending device positioned within the cooler. The vending device may include a number of product shelves with a number of product gates and one or more product locking systems that permit the removal of only one product at a time from the product gates.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch
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Patent number: 9082254Abstract: The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module may include a product row, a product gate positioned about the product row, and a product locking system in communication with the product gate. The product locking system may include a latch and a biased base such that releasing the latch allows the product gate to be opened and one of the number of products to be removed therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Bart Carpentier, Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch, Jacobus Petrus Maria Dessing
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Publication number: 20140367403Abstract: The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module includes a product row configured to contain a number of products therein. The product vending module also includes a product gate positioned about the product row and rotatable from a closed position preventing access to the number of products to an open position allowing access to one of the number of products while preventing access to a remainder of the number of products, the product gate including a biased base. The product vending module further includes a product locking system in communication with the product gate, the product locking system including a locking pin releasably engaging the biased base and movable from a first allowing rotation of the product gate toward the closed position to a second position restricting rotation of the product gate toward the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Bart Carpentier, Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch, Jaacobus Petrus Maria Dessing
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Publication number: 20110238209Abstract: A vending system for dispensing a number of products. The vending system may include an enclosure with an access point, a weighing system, a user interface, and an access system. The user interface may include a proximity card coupling device to read and write to a proximity card. The access system allows the access point of the enclosure to be opened in response to the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Jurgen Roekens, Willy Van Esch
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Publication number: 20110226794Abstract: The present application provides a product vending module for vending a number of products. The product vending module may include a product row, a product gate positioned about the product row, and a product locking system in communication with the product gate. The product locking system may include a latch and a biased base such that releasing the latch allows the product gate to be opened and one of the number of products to be removed therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Bart Carpentier, Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch, Jacobus Petrus Maria Dessing
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Publication number: 20110226793Abstract: The present application provides a vendor for vending a number of products. The vendor may include a cooler and a vending device positioned within the cooler. The vending device may include a number of product shelves with a number of product gates and one or more product locking systems that permit the removal of only one product at a time from the product gates.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Jurgen Roekens, Antonio Feltrin, Willy Van Esch
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Patent number: 8001795Abstract: A method of adjusting temperatures of products to a desired product temperature. The method may include enabling the selection of a product, enabling the selection of the desired product temperature, enabling the placement of the product into a temperature adjust device, circulating a liquid or a gas through the temperature adjust device, the liquid or the gas having been cooled to a cool temperature less than the desired product temperature or heated to a warm temperature greater than the desired product temperature, determining when the desired product temperature has been obtained, and ceasing circulation of the liquid or a gas through the temperature adjust device.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Steven C. Pfister, Brock Kolls, Carlos A. Barreto, Mathew Scott Reichardt, Thomas P. Howell, Willy Van Esch
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Publication number: 20090029016Abstract: A method of adjusting temperatures of products to a desired product temperature. The method may include enabling the selection of a product, enabling the selection of the desired product temperature, enabling the placement of the product into a temperature adjust device, circulating a liquid or a gas through the temperature adjust device, the liquid or the gas having been cooled to a cool temperature less than the desired product temperature or heated to a warm temperature greater than the desired product temperature, determining when the desired product temperature has been obtained, and ceasing circulation of the liquid or a gas through the temperature adjust device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Steven C. Pfister, Brock Kolls, Carlos A. Barreto, Mathew Scott Reichardt, Thomas P. Howell, Willy Van Esch
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Publication number: 20080011771Abstract: A vending machine for dispensing a number of containers. The vending machine may include a shelf system and a vend belt system positioned about the shelf system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2006Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: THE COCA-COLA COMPANYInventors: Jurgen Roekens, Willy Van Esch, Laurent Houtsaeger
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Patent number: 7048147Abstract: A drink dispensing head incorporating a Venturi valve to utilize the motive force of a high pressure liquid to draw a low pressure liquid into the dispensing head without the need for additional pumps.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2003Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Jurgens Roekens, Willy Van Esch, Gary A. Short
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Patent number: 6808083Abstract: A vending machine for dispensing a first number of products and a second number of products. The vending machine may include a product compartment. The product compartment may include a first column with the first products and a second column with the second products. A dispensing path may be positioned about the product compartment so as to dispense the first products without heating. A heating device may be positioned adjacent to the product compartment for heating the second products. A positioning device may be positioned about the second column to maneuver the second products to the heating device and the dispensing path so as to dispense the second products as heated.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: Jurgen Roekens, Willy Van Esch, Bart Carpentier
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Publication number: 20040007594Abstract: A device for adding an amount of a secondary fluid to a primary fluid stream. The device may include an outer shell, an inner compartment for storing the secondary fluid, and a flow path defined between the outer shell and the inner compartment for the primary fluid stream. A flow control device may be positioned within the inner compartment so as to control the amount of the secondary fluid added to the primary fluid stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2002Publication date: January 15, 2004Inventors: Willy Van Esch, Henrique Braun
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Publication number: 20030222093Abstract: A vending machine for dispensing a first number of products and a second number of products. The vending machine may include a product compartment. The product compartment may include a first column with the first products and a second column with the second products. A dispensing path may be positioned about the product compartment so as to dispense the first products without heating. A heating device may be positioned adjacent to the product compartment for heating the second products. A positioning device may be positioned about the second column to maneuver the second products to the heating device and the dispensing path so as to dispense the second products as heated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2002Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventors: Jurgen Roekens, Willy Van Esch, Bart Carpentier
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Publication number: 20030010054Abstract: An ice-making system may include a bin configured to contain an initial quantity of water and an ice making assembly configured to make ice solely from the initial quantity of water. A conveyor may be configured to transport the ice from the ice making assembly to the bin, and a water circuit may be configured to re-circulate the initial quantity of water through the ice making assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2001Publication date: January 16, 2003Inventors: Willy Van Esch, Scott Summerville
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Patent number: 6495049Abstract: A water treatment method uses a removable, disposable cartridge having an internal mesh structure. A disposable heater heats water fed to the cartridge. Precipitated solids collect on the mesh surface provided temperature and residence times are appropriately maintained. The heat breaks down the bicarbonate hardness of the water thereby depositing carbonates on the mesh surface and heavy metals will be codeposited due to the resultant change in pH. The cartridge has a head-space for collecting entrained gases such as volatile organic compounds, chlorine and air. Water sterility is achieved by heating the water over an appropriate period of time. Turbidity is removed within the cartridge due to settling induced by the low fluid velocity controlled by a controller and by a filter provided at the outlet of the cartridge. The filter will become blocked when bicarbonate hardness is carried over forcing a user to replace a spent cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2000Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventor: Willy Van Esch
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Patent number: 6416673Abstract: A water treatment method uses a removable, disposable cartridge having an internal mesh structure. A disposable heater heats water fed to the cartridge. Precipitated solids collect on the mesh surface provided temperature and residence time are appropriately maintained. The heat breaks down the bicarbonate hardness of the water thereby depositing carbonates on the mesh surface and heavy metals will be codeposited due to the resultant change in pH. The cartridge has a head-space for collecting entrained gases such as volatile or Manic compounds, chlorine and air. Water sterility is achieved by heating the water over an appropriate period of time. Turbidity is removed within the cartridge due to settling induced by the low fluid velocity controlled by a controller and by a filter provided at the outlet of the cartridge. The filter will become blocked when bicarbonate hardness is carried over forcing a user to replace a spent cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2001Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: George Plester, Willy Van Esch
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Publication number: 20010032823Abstract: A water treatment method uses a removable, disposable cartridge having an internal mesh structure. A disposable heater heats water fed to the cartridge. Precipitated solids collect on the mesh surface provided temperature and residence time are appropriately maintained. The heat breaks down the bicarbonate hardness of the water thereby depositing carbonates on the mesh surface and heavy metals will be codeposited due to the resultant change in pH. The cartridge has a head-space for collecting entrained gases such as volatile organic compounds, chlorine and air. Water sterility is achieved by heating the water over an appropriate period of time. Turbidity is removed within the cartridge due to settling induced by the low fluid velocity controlled by a controller and by a filter provided at the outlet of the cartridge. The filter will become blocked when bicarbonate hardness is carried over forcing a user to replace a spent cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Inventors: George Plester, Willy Van Esch
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Patent number: 6264830Abstract: A water treatment method uses a removable, disposable cartridge having an internal mesh structure. A disposable heater heats water fed to the cartridge. Precipitated solids collect on the mesh surface provided temperature and residence time are appropriately maintained. The heat breaks down the bicarbonate hardness of the water thereby depositing carbonates on the mesh surface and heavy metals will be codeposited due to the resultant change in pH. The cartridge has a head-space for collecting entrained gases such as volatile organic compounds, chlorine and air. Water sterility is achieved by heating the water over an appropriate period of time. Turbidity is removed within the cartridge due to settling induced by the low fluid velocity controlled by a controller and by a filter provided at the outlet of the cartridge. The filter will become blocked when bicarbonate hardness is carried over forcing a user to replace a spent cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1999Date of Patent: July 24, 2001Assignee: The Coca-Cola CompanyInventors: George Plester, Willy Van Esch