BEVERAGE DISPENSER

• US 20170358167A1
• Filed: 06/08/2017
• Published: 12/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grupos Gallegos, Co.
• Original Assignee: Grupo Gallegos
• Inventors: LUCKER, PAUL, CHOZAS, DOMINGO, ESCOBAR, SAUL
• Granted Patent: US 10,438,438 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0409 the dispensing means being adapted for delivering one article, or a single dose, upon each actuation B65D83/0445 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2303/08222 Shape of the element
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2331/805 Cans
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 3/06 Movable containers
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 31/007 Bottles or cans
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 13/10 with associated dispensing of containers, e.g. cups or other articles
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/0071 Food articles which need to be processed for dispensing in a cold condition, e.g. ice and ice cream
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/105 Heating or cooling means, for temperature and humidity control, for the conditioning of articles and their storage dispensers for food articles requiring a processing by temperature treatment or conditioning before they are ready for dispensing G07F17/0064

Abstract

A beverage dispenser for dispensing beverage containers includes an outer shell with an internal track that dispense rolling beverage containers from the track and one or more internal ice liners that retain ice to keep the beverage containers chilled.

Claims

1. A beverage dispenser including an outer shell, a water-resistant ice liner with a liner opening inside the outer shell, an internal track assembly including a descending and inclined ramp inside the outer shell and adjacent to the ice liner and a beverage container open dispensing area at a bottom end of the track assembly.

2. The beverage dispenser of claim of claim 1, wherein the outer shell is constructed of at least one of styrene and metal.

3. The beverage dispenser of claim 1, further including handles at the top of the dispenser.

4. The beverage dispenser of claim 1, wherein the outer shell is a beer keg-type shape.

5. The beverage dispenser of claim 1, further comprising a rotatable roller coupled to container escapement holder at the open dispensing area.

6. The beverage dispenser of claim 5, further comprising handles at the top of the dispenser, and wherein the outer shell is a beer keg-type shape.

7. The beverage dispenser of claim of claim 6, wherein the outer shell is constructed of at least one of styrene and metal.

8. The beverage dispenser of claim 1, wherein the dispenser is portable and includes one or more handles.

9. A beverage dispenser including an outer shell, one ore more water-resistant ice liners with one or more liner openings inside the outer shell, one or more internal track assemblies with each assembly including one or more descending and inclined ramps inside the outer shell and adjacent to the one or more ice liners and one or more beverage container open dispensing areas at an end of the one or more track assemblies, and from 24 to 60 beverage cans arranged on the one or more track assemblies.

10. The beverage dispenser of any of claim 9, wherein the one or more water-resistant ice liners are selected from the group consisting of a single central compartment with a central opening at a top portion of the dispenser and a plurality of compartments adjacent the outer shell.

11. The beverage dispenser of any of claim 10, wherein the one or more ice liners include ice.

12. The beverage dispenser of claim 10, further comprising one or more escapement rollers at the one or more beverage container open dispensing areas

13. A beverage dispenser including an outer shell, one or more water-resistant ice liners adjacent to one or more internal track assemblies inside the outer shell and one or more movable plungers adjacent to the one or more internal track assemblies and configured to lift beverage containers from near a bottom portion of the dispenser to one or more dispensing areas adjacent to a top portion of the dispenser.

14. The beverage dispenser of claim 13, further comprising one or more container hoppers at the one or more dispensing areas.

15. The beverage dispenser of claim 14, further comprising one or more springs beneath the one or more plungers.

16. The beverage dispenser of claim 13, further comprising one or more springs beneath the one or more plungers.

17. The beverage dispenser of claim 13, further comprising from 24 to 60 beverage container arranged to roll down the one or more track assemblies.

18. The beverage dispenser of any of claim 13, wherein the one or more water-resistant ice liners are selected from the group consisting of a single central compartment with a central opening at a top portion of the dispenser and a plurality of compartments adjacent the outer shell including openings at a top portion of the dispense.

19. The beverage dispenser of claim 18, wherein the one or more ice liners include ice.

20. The beverage dispenser of claim 13, wherein the outer shell includes a beer-keg type shape.