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Beverage dispenser

US4333587A · kind A · utility

91Cited by
4References
16Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 31, 1980
Grant dateJun 8, 1982
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Expiry dateJan 31, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB67D2210/00031
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A post-mix carbonated beverage dispenser has an exterior cabinet, a base dividing the interior of the cabinet into first and second discrete compartments with all of the refrigeration system being in the first compartment, a drawer trackway and pull-out slide drawer in the second compartment, a fluid pressure powerable water pump and fluid pressure powerable syrup pumps fixedly mounted onto the slide drawer, flexible tubing connecting the pumps to a source of propellant gas, and further flexible tubing fluidly connecting the pumps to the refrigeration system and to a dispensing nozzle; the slide drawer with its pumps and tubing are normally visually concealed within the cabinet and are withdrawable out of the cabinet without disconnection of the tubing and while operative, to an alternative position providing substantially unobstructed access to all of the pumps and accessories upon the slide drawer.

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