BEVERAGE-MAKING MACHINE Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A47J31/44 

FIELD: personal effects.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to beverage-making machine designed for use with hermetically sealed cartridges. Stoppering mechanism of the beverage-making machine consists of rigid lower part and upper part. The latter can be rotated relative to lower part. The upper part can also be moved from open position, where it is disengaged from the lower part, to closed position, where it is engaged to lower part. Stoppering mechanism contains clamp down lever, which can be actuated to fix the upper part in closed position. Clamp down lever contains an element, engaged to the upper part with a capability of being rotated relative to first spigot, and another element, which can be rotated around second spigot. The edge of first element and second edge of second element are engaged to each other with a capability of being rotated around third spigot, so that the clamp down lever can reside in two positions. When actuating the lever to move the upper part from open to closed position, the lever is moved from first position to the second one.

EFFECT: creation of reliable and cost-effective mechanism for insertion of beverage cartridge into a beverage-making machine and extraction of cartridge from the machine.

35 cl, 46 dwg, 4 tbl