Patent ID: 8881949
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: B67D

Abstract:
1. A modular beverage dispenser for engagement with a multiplicity of remote bag-in-box or other source of pressurized concentrates, a remote pressurized ambient water source, such as city water, and a remote source of electric power, the modular beverage dispenser having: a housing having housing walls, including side walls and a top wall having a length and a width, the walls defining an interior space, the interior space having interior walls defining a multiple of interior spaces; the housing walls engaging either a flange extending outward from at least some of the side walls of the housing configured to engage a perimeter of a countertop cutout or engaging legs configured to depend downward from the housing to support the same above a support surface; an ice container for receiving ice therein, the ice container configured to engage the housing so as to be substantially within the interior space, the ice container having a bottom wall with a drain line; a cold plate with a multiplicity of cold plate contained fluid lines therein adapted to engage the ice container so as to be cooled by the contents thereof; a carbonator located in the interior space; a carbonator pump and motor; a flow control and manifold assembly having upstream ports and a downstream end of the flow control and manifold assembly for mounting in the interior space, a python having fluid lines, the python for engaging the downstream end of the flow control and manifold assembly, a bar gun for engaging the python outside of the housing and fluidly coupling with the fluid lines thereof, the bar gun having a nozzle adapted to dispense a beverage therefrom; a multiplicity of fluid lines for engaging some of the cold plate contained fluid lines, wherein some of the fluid lines engage the concentrate sources and some to the water source, and the removed ends of such fluid lines after leaving the cold plate engage the upstream ports of the fluid control and manifold assembly; and further including a water source engaging a fluid line configured to pre-chill water going to the carbonator and post-chill a carbonated water after leaving the carbonator, such line then engaging an upstream port of the flow control and manifold assembly.