Beverage delivery apparatus provided with a pump-containing ice chest
OwnerChris L. Billingsinventor
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Abstract
Beverage delivery structure including a counter top with support structure and also an ice chest conveniently supplied proximate the counter top; the ice chest is provided with an insert structure containing a beverage delivery pumping unit and, thereabove, a well for receiving a series of beverage bottles; a primary source of a beverage constituent as well as beverage delivery structure are coupled to the intake and output ports of the pumping unit.
Claims6
Beverage delivery structure including, in combination:
- a counter top;
- support structure secured to and depending from said counter top to floor level;
- an ice chest having upper lips and secured above floor level to said support structure spacedly beneath said counter top;
- an insert structure disposed within said ice chest and containing a beverage delivery pumping unit provided a beverage ingredient intake;
- a dispenser unit coupled to said pumping unit and releasably secured proximate said counter top;
- a beverage ingredient source disposed beneath said ice chest;
- conduit intercoupling said beverage ingredient source to said pumping unit;
- means for driving said pumping unit coupled thereto, said insert structure including a housing containing said pumping unit and defining a bottle receiving and storing cavity positioning above said pumping unit.
Beverage delivery structure including, in combination:
- first means including a pumping unit and a dispenser for dispensing beverages;
- a counter top;
- second means coupled to said counter top for supporting the same, and an ice chest disposed beneath said counter top and provided with a housing insert containing said pumping unit, said housing insert also having structure defining a bottle receiving cavity disposed above said pumping unit.
Insert structure for an ice chest supplied in an external wet bar, including, in combination;
- a housing defining a lower cavity for receiving a beverage pumping unit and an upper cavity disposed directly above said lower cavity for receiving a series of beverage bottles, said housing also including a partition disposed between said upper and lower cavities and having at least one upper, outwardly extending support flange for engaging said ice chest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.