Selectable gas infused beverage dispensing system
AssigneeAutomatic Bar Controls, Inc.
InventorsVishnu Vishaal Narayan Maharaj, Benjamin Adam Piper, Charles Kleinrichert
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are beverage dispensing apparatuses for selectable gas-infused beverage dispensing. The apparatus may have a faucet assembly, a beverage storage unit, a gas storage unit, a liquid/gas infusion unit, and an infusion valve. The faucet assembly may have a housing, a nozzle, a supply valve, and a dispensing valve, configured to control a flow of beverage through the faucet assembly. The beverage dispensing apparatus may use the infusion valve to selectively infuse a selected level of gas within a dispensed beverage.
Claims20
A beverage dispensing apparatus for dispensing a beverage with a user selected level of infusion with a gas containing nitrogen, the apparatus comprising:
- a faucet assembly comprising:
- a dispense tower;
- a nozzle coupled to the dispense tower;
- a supply line;
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- a dispensing valve coupled to the dispense tower and fluidly coupled between the nozzle and the supply line, wherein the dispensing valve is configured to be actuated to open and close to control a flow of the beverage from the supply line to the nozzle;
- a beverage storage unit configured to store an un-infused beverage;
- a gas storage unit configured to store the gas;
- a liquid/gas infusion unit fluidly coupled to the beverage storage unit and the supply line, wherein the liquid/gas infusion unit is configured to infuse the un-infused beverage with the gas in response to the gas and the un-infused beverage flowing through the liquid/gas infusion unit;
- at least one infusion valve configured to adjust a level of infusion of the un-infused beverage with the gas;
- an infusion line provided between the gas storage unit and the liquid/gas infusion unit configured to deliver the gas to the liquid/gas infusion unit;
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- a pressure relief valve fluidly coupled to atmosphere and to the infusion line, wherein the pressure relief valve is configured to control a release of gas in the infusion line into the atmosphere.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.