Autonomous gravity-feed beverage dispenser with cooling device
AssigneeDieau S.A.
InventorsEric Fournier, Jean-Marc Ritter
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AssigneeDieau S.A.
InventorsEric Fournier, Jean-Marc Ritter
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A gravity-feed unit that dispenses cool drinks form a carboy includes a breakable inner seal. The carboy is supported by its neck, which is centered on a striker. The striker includes a discharge passage for the carboy that communicates with a coiled pipe to cause the beverage to flow through a secondary exchanger. A heat transferring agent is previously cooled in a primary exchanger and brought to the secondary exchanger by a pump. Actuation is controlled by a temperature sensor that measures the temperature of the heat transfer agent in the secondary exchanger. The primary exchanger includes a heat source that causes the heat transfer agent to pass continuously inside a closed circuit mutually connecting the primary and secondary exchangers regardless of whether the pump is operating.
A gravity-feed chilled beverage dispenser based on a necked carboy having a percussive inner seal, characterized in that such means comprises means for support of the carboy (2) in inverted position on a striker (8) which has a passage (10) for discharge of the carboy (2) communicating with a coiled pipe (22) for conducting the beverage through a secondary exchanger (20) the heat transfer agent of which has previously been refrigerated in a primary exchanger (26) and which is delivered to the secondary exchanger (20) by means of a pump (36) activation of which is controlled by thermostatic means (38) for measurement of the temperature of the transfer agent in the secondary exchanger (20), the primary exchanger (22) having a heat source (42) for maintaining uninterrupted passage of the transfer agent inside the closed circuit connecting the primary (26) and secondary (20) exchangers to each other, even when the pump (36) is not in operation.
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