Portable insulated thermo-electric cooler and dispenser
OwnerGwyn-Mohr Pierce Tully, Gregory Edward Young +1inventors
InventorsGwyn-Mohr Pierce Tully, Gregory Edward Young, Michael Peter Kelley
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Abstract
A Cornelius keg refrigerated storage, transport, and contents dispensing device holds the keg in the interior of a container equipped with provision for transporting the container, cooling the keg using refrigerated contact along the effective height of the keg, insulating the keg to maintain temperature, and storing the equipment for dispensing the keg contents.
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A multi-functional device for supporting, cooling, insulating, and dispensing a liquid contained in a Cornelius keg arranged with inlet and outlet ports on an upper end comprising:
- a frame arranged to enclose, support, insulate and anchor the Cornelius keg in a vertical orientation;
- a refrigeration system arranged to contact the Cornelius keg with a cooling block;
- the cooling block arranged to contact the Cornelius keg from the top to the bottom of the effective height of the keg;
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- the cooling block further arranged with a concave contact surface with a radius selected to fit the contour of the Cornelius keg.
A cooling system for a Cornelius keg comprising:
- a refrigeration system with one or more multiple thermoelectric coolers in contact with a cooling block;
- the cooling block arranged with a concave surface with a radius selected to fit the contour of the Cornelius keg;
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- the cooling block further arranged with the concave surface contacting the keg from the top to the bottom of the effective height of the keg.
A method of refrigerated storage, transport, and dispensing of a liquid contained in a Cornelius keg comprising:
- installing the keg in a wheeled insulated frame arranged to support the keg on two wheels and two feet, and further arranged to contact the keg effective height with a cooling block arranged with a concave contact surface with a radius selected to fit the contour of the Cornelius keg;
- activating a refrigeration system arranged to cool the cooling block;
- transporting the keg by tilting the frame so it may be rolled on the two wheels;
- dispensing the keg liquid by installing a bibcock on the keg, installing a pressurization device on the keg;
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- dispensing liquid through the bibcock.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.