System for cooling head of fluid dispensing apparatus

• US 5,873,259 A
• Filed: 08/14/1997
• Issued: 02/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Utah Milk Technologies LC
• Original Assignee: Utah Milk Technologies LC
• Inventors: Spillman, Robert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES
• Application Number:
  US08/911,502
• Time in Patent Office: 558 Days
• Field of Search: 62/389, 62/390, 62/396, 62/399, 222/146.6, 222/129.1
• US Class Current: 62/396
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0084 Hand-held gun type valves
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0867 the cooling fluid being a liquid

Abstract

A beverage dispensing apparatus having a recirculating channel circulating refrigerant to and through a dispenser head to keep cooled product at a constant temperature at all times to the point of emergence from the dispenser.

Claims

1. A system for cooling the head of a beverage dispensing apparatus comprising in combination:

A beverage dispensing body having means for dispensing a beverage from a storage tank;

a dispensing head attached to the dispensing body, said dispensing head having at least one orifice through which the beverage to be dispensed is discharged;

a system of channels extending through said dispensing body and dispensing head to the point of discharge in the dispensing head for conducting coolant fluids for cooling the beverage entirely to the point of discharge from the dispensing head; and

means for carrying coolant fluid from a cooling apparatus to the system of channels.

2. A system as set forth in claim 1, wherein the cooling apparatus is located apart from the dispensing apparatus.

3. A system as set forth in claim 1, having means for intermixing the cooling fluid with the beverage to be dispensed.

4. A system as set forth in claim 1, having means for returning the coolant from the dispensing apparatus to the cooling apparatus to be recooled.

5. A system as set forth in claim 4, wherein tubes for carrying the coolant fluid to the dispensing apparatus from the cooling apparatus are located adjacent to a beverage tube carrying the beverage to be dispensed, so that the beverage is cooled from the storage tank to the point of discharge from the dispensing head.