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US 5,575,405 AGranted
Post-mix beverage dispenser with an associated simulated visual display of beverage
AssigneeJuicy Whip, Inc.
InventorsPeter K. Stratton, Gus J. Stratton
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AssigneeJuicy Whip, Inc.
InventorsPeter K. Stratton, Gus J. Stratton
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A beverage dispenser provides a housing supporting a sealed transparent display bowl containing a permanent sterile and stable fluid simulating the color and texture of a beverage to be dispensed. A generally conventional post-mix system supplies pressurized water and beverage concentrate to a cylindrical mixing chamber that is closed at one axial end and has an outlet at the opposite end for dispensing the mixed beverage. The pressurized water and concentrate are directed chordally against each other within the mixing chamber such that they impinge and mix in a spiral flow around the cylindrical periphery of the mixing chamber in the general direction of the water and toward the outlet. The display bowl is mounted on the housing and is partially filled by a hollow spacer having a bottom opening. A refrigerator tower for cooling the water flowing therethrough prior to mixing is supported by the housing and extends upright through the bottom opening into the hollow spacer.
In a post-mix beverage dispenser of the type having an outlet for discharging beverage components in predetermined proportions to provide a serving of dispensed beverage, the improvement which comprises:
A method for inducing sales of a beverage to be dispensed from the outlet of a post-mix beverage dispenser, said method comprising the steps of:
A beverage dispensing apparatus comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.