Beverage chiller
AssigneePepsiCo, Inc.
InventorsPrashant Deshpande, Gurmeet Bhutani, Brian Kelly, Wilton Brown
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Abstract
Beverage chillers are disclosed. A beverage chiller may include a container platform that receives a beverage container and a chiller tank. The chiller tank may have a central axis and may have an agitator. The chiller tank may be filled with water. A conveyor may move the container platform and beverage container into the chiller tank. The container platform and beverage container may rotate in a first direction in the chiller tank and the agitator may rotate the water in a second direction.
Claims20
A method of cooling a fluid in a container, the method comprising:
- receiving the container at a container platform;
- rotating the container platform to move the container from an intake area to a water bath;
- rotating the container in a first direction inside the water bath;
- and
- rotating the water in the water bath in a second direction.
A method of cooling a fluid in a container, the method comprising:
- receiving the container at an intake area;
- conveying the container from the intake area vertically into a water bath;
- rotating the container through the water bath in a direction opposite of the direction the water bath is moving to cool the fluid in the container;
- conveying the container from the water bath to the intake area;
- and
- drying the surface of the container as the container is conveyed from the water bath to the intake area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.