Patent ID: 8327607

Claim:
An apparatus for introducing a selected beverage into a flexible pouch, sealingly closing said flexible pouch and dispensing said closed flexible pouch, comprising: a housing adapted to, in use, accept a plurality of reservoirs of beverage concentrate each reservoir having a concentrate pump and flexible conduit terminating in a nozzle associated therewith, the apparatus including: a plurality of drivers adapted to drive said concentrate pumps; a means of, in use, introducing diluent to the pumped concentrate to produce a beverage; a multiple dispense head for accepting the plurality of nozzles; a means for, in use, selecting a flexible pouch and bringing it into alignment with a nozzle in a filling position where it is filled via an opening therein; and a means for, in use, sealingly closing said opening and dispensing said filled sealed flexible pouch from said apparatus, wherein the filling position is a fixed position and, in use, said nozzles are movable relative to the filling position such that any one of said plurality of nozzles can be presented at said filling position.