Patent ID: 7861550
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: B67D,F25D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A water dispenser for dispensing hot water, cold water and carbonated water, all of which is filtered, comprising: housing means defining a front dispensing face, a rear face, opposite side walls, a top face and a bottom wall; a filter mounted in the housing means and having a rear end connectable to a source of water and a front end accessible at the front face of the housing means to facilitate replacing the filter; a dispensing faucet means at the front face of the housing means; a hot water tank at one side of the housing means and having an inlet for receiving filtered water from the filter and a hot water outlet near the dispensing faucet for delivering hot water thereto; an ice bank assembly at an opposite side of the housing means and having an inlet for receiving filtered water from the filter and a cold water outlet near the dispensing faucet for delivering cold water thereto, the ice bank assembly including a tank containing a cooling liquid bath and an array of cold water coils at one side of the tank immersed in the bath and spaced from a generally flat array of evaporator coils at an opposite side of the tank, the evaporator coils forming a generally planar ice bank extending rectilinearly in a direction between the front and rear faces of the housing means, the cold water coils being connected to the cold water outlet; a compressor mounted on the bottom wall of the housing means and coupled to one end of said evaporator coils; a condenser coil at the rear face of the housing means and coupled between the compressor and an opposite end of the evaporator coils; and a carbonator adjacent the tank outside the cooling liquid bath so as to be cooled thereby and having an inlet for receiving filtered water from the filter and an outlet near the dispensing faucet for delivering carbonated water thereto.