Chilling apparatus
AssigneeChilled Concepts Ltd.
InventorBrian Newman
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Abstract
A chilling apparatus (1) for chilling drinking vessels (44) comprising a liquid gas reservoir (3) in fluid communication with a chilling nozzle (4) under the control of a valve (41) controlled by a control unit (6), so that the drinking vessel may be chilled by a metered quantity of liquid gas vapourising from the chilling nozzle. The reservoir is provided with a vent (36) to prevent a buildup of vapourised liquid gas in the pipework and/or reservoir.
Claims16
A chilling apparatus (1) for chilling a drinking vessel (44), the apparatus comprising a reservoir (3) for liquid gas, the reservoir being in fluid communication by pipework (31) with a chilling nozzle (4) under the control of metering means, such that the drinking vessel may be chilled by a metered quantity of the liquid gas vapourising from the chilling nozzle, wherein the reservoir is provided with venting means (36,35,7,23) to prevent a build up of vapourised liquid gas in the pipework and/or reservoir.
A chilling apparatus as claimed in any of the preceding claims, wherein the metering means includes second valve means (41) for controlling emission of vapourising liquid gas from the chilling nozzle (4) controlled by chilling timing means.
A Chilling apparatus as claimed in any of the preceding claims wherein the chilling nozzle (4) is provided with a seat (45) for locating an inverted drinking vessel (44) to be chilled over the chilling nozzle.
A chilling apparatus as claimed in any of the preceding claims, wherein the apparatus is at least partially located in a housing (2) and hood means (9).
A chilling apparatus as claimed in any of the preceding claims, wherein the apparatus is adapted to use carbon dioxide as the liquid gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.