Portable beverage dispenser

A portable beverage dispenser, comprising:

• a pair of adjacent tanks divided by an insulated partition;
• each of said tanks having a fill opening and cap means for closing said fill opening;
• each of said tanks having a dispensing outlet with means for independently regulating flow of liquids from said tanks;
• heating tubes attached to electrical heating elements for heating liquids in said tanks;
• cooling tubes attached to thermoelectric cooling elements for cooling liquids in said tanks;
• said heating and cooling elements independently connected to a rechargeable battery;
• said adjacent tanks having parallel sides and common, generally parallel front and back walls and common, parallel top and bottom walls;
• said front wall having a recessed area and handle means slidably attached on sides of said recessed area such that said handle means traverses said recessed area with room between said handle means and said recessed area of said front wall, said room between said handle means and said front wall having a width and depth sufficient for the profile of a small portable radio;
• radio speakers mounted adjacent outside side walls of said tanks;
• and
• means for connecting a radio to said battery and to said speakers.

A portable beverage dispenser, comprising:

• a pair of adjacent plastic tanks divided by an insulated partition, each tank having a means for heating and a means for cooling the contents of said tanks, each tank having openings and means for closing said openings, each tank having outlets with means for independently regulating flow of liquids from said tanks, said independent flow regulating means consisting of dispensing taps, each tank having independent means for pressurizing said tanks, each independent means for pressurizing comprising a hand pump acting upon a pressure reservoir, said means for heating comprising of heating tubes attached to electrical heating elements, said means for cooling comprising cooling tubes attached to thermoelectric cooling elements, said heating and cooling elements independently connected to a power source, said power source comprising a rechargeable battery, a connecting wire with automobile cigarette lighter plug members at each end for connecting said rechargeable battery with a conventional automobile cigarette lighter plug, said adjacent tanks having parallel sides and common, generally parallel front and back walls and common, parallel top and bottom walls, said outlets and means for regulating flow of liquids on the front wall adjacent to their respective tanks, said front wall containing a recessed area and handle means slidably attached on the sides of the recessed area such that the handle means traverses the recessed area with room between the handle means and the recessed area of the front wall, said room between handle means and front wall having a width and depth sufficient for the profile of a small portable radio, radio speakers adjacent the outside side walls of the tanks, means for connecting a radio to the power source and to the speakers, housing side walls separated from the tanks' outside side walls by the width of the speakers, said side walls having three position switches which actuate said heating and cooling elements operating within said tanks, a housing rear wall separated from the tanks' back wall by a width defining the pressure reservoirs, said pressure reservoirs surrounding three sides of the thermoelectric cooling elements and battery, said battery having a socket for engaging a standard cigarette lighter plug, said socket extending through said housing rear wall, a housing bottom wall separated from the tank bottom wall by more than the diameter of said lighter plug, a rigid cover having a generally rectangular shape extending the length and breadth of the housing, said cover hinged at the top of the housing rear wall, said cover comprising of padded material, a leg well extending the height of the housing located at each end of each housing side wall, said leg well containing guide tracks, legs attached to said guide tracks at one end by guide runners, retaining pins attached to said legs at the same end but on opposite sides from the guide runner, housing body holes near the top and bottom of the back and front housing walls in line with the retaining pins such that said pins on said legs can retractably protrude from said housing holes, a mounting skirt comprising a top plate and hinged side plates, said side plates spring biased toward the bottom of the top plate, said top plate having two eye holes, skirt mounting pegs attached to the housing bottom wall located the same distance from each other as the distance between the eye holes on the top plate of the mounting skirt, said skirt mounting pegs and mounting skirt eye holes located with respect to each other such that their engagement will place the housing bottom flush with the top plate of the mounting skirt with the side plates parallel to the housing sides, said side plates having small, sharp projections.