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A beverage dispenser fills a container with a beverage by controlling beverage flow through a nozzle with a valve. A mechanism reads an indicia printed on the container which identifies a volume for that container. The volume information is sent to a controller which responses by activating the valv

A beverage dispenser fills a container with a beverage by controlling beverage flow through a nozzle with a valve. A mechanism reads an indicia printed on the container which identifies a volume for that container. The volume information is sent to a controller which responses by activating the valve to dispense a quantity of beverage that corresponds to the volume indicated by the indicia. Thus the beverage dispenser is able to automatically fill containers of different sizes by reading each containers volume indicating indicia. The indicia also may indicate a unique serial number assigned to each container. In that case, the controller stores data in memory which identify serial numbers of containers into which beverage has been dispensed previously and the dispensing is inhibited if the server attempts to refill one of those containers.

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An apparatus for dispensing a beverage into containers, said apparatus comprising: a nozzle having an outlet through which the beverage is dispensed; a valve coupled to said nozzle for controlling the flow of the beverage through said nozzle; a mechanism for reading an indicia printed on a given con

An apparatus for dispensing a beverage into containers, said apparatus comprising: a nozzle having an outlet through which the beverage is dispensed; a valve coupled to said nozzle for controlling the flow of the beverage through said nozzle; a mechanism for reading an indicia printed on a given container placed under said nozzle, wherein the indicia identifies a volume for the given container, said mechanism producing a signal which indicates the volume for the given container; and a controller which responds to the signal from said mechanism by operating said valve to dispense beverage from said nozzle, wherein a quantity of beverage that is dispensed is determined from the signal.