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US 9,174,833 B2Granted
Front room beverage dispense apparatus
AssigneeCornelius, Inc.
InventorsXiaofeng Yang, Klaus Wiemer, Sreekanth Pushpala, Nishant Kulkarni
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Abstract
The invention relates to a beverage dispense apparatus that maintains syrup containers in a housing, thereby eliminating plumbing required by prior art Bag-in-Box dispensers.
Claims17
A beverage dispensing apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a dispensing nozzle on the housing;
- a cold plate disposed in the housing;
- a syrup container disposed in the housing and containing, a syrup;
- and
- a beverage delivery system disposed in the housing and configured to deliver a beverage mixture containing the syrup to the dispensing nozzle;
- wherein the syrup container is cooled by the cold plate.
4 more elements
A beverage dispensing apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a dispensing nozzle on the housing;
- a cold plate disposed in the housing;
- a bag-in-box syrup container disposed in the housing and containing a syrup;
- a beverage delivery system disposed in the housing and configured to deliver a beverage mixture containing water and the syrup to the dispensing, nozzle, wherein the water is cooled by the cold plate;
- and
- a refrigeration system disposed in the housing and supplying a refrigerant or cold secondary medium to the cold plate;
- and
- wherein the syrup container is in contact with the cold plate such that the cold plate cools syrup in the syrup container.
6 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.