US Patent Issued to BARTESIAN on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus for securing a container to a beverage machine" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,093, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BARTESIAN CORP..

"Apparatus for securing a container to a beverage machine" was invented by Brian Bock (Midlothian, Va.), Kevin Leppert (Lanexa, Va.) and Ben H. Branson III (Mechanicsville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a beverage machine for dispensing liquids from a container and an apparatus for securing said container to the beverage machine. The container is removably received by a resilient sealing ring which can be tightened around the container using a rotatable bracket. Through a system of interlocking teeth, a plurality of resilient sealing rings ...