Patent ID: 7308916

Claim:
A beverage dispenser comprising: a cup port provided at a front surface of a body; a cup mount provided at an outside of the cup port; a cup holder including a cup holding portion, an internal diameter of the cup holding portion slightly smaller than a maximum external diameter of a cup in an external form like an inverted truncated cone, a right-to-left space of an opening of the cup holding portion slightly larger than a minimum external diameter of the cup, the cup holder capable of holding the cup with the cup holding portion; a holder mover capable of moving the cup holder at least forward and backward and upward and downward; and cup carryout control means for operating the cup holder so that the holding portion holding the cup is advanced from an inside of the cup port to the outside thereof to locate the holding portion above the cup mount, the cup holding portion is lowered from an above position by a predetermined distance to place the cup on the cup mount in process of lowering, and the cup holding portion is retreated from a lowered position to the inside of the cup port to leave the cup on the cup mount.