Patent ID: 8833405
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: B67D,F17C,G05D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A beverage dispenser for dispensing a carbonated beverage from a beverage source into a receptacle, the dispenser comprising: a housing defining an interior volume and having a first surface proximal to the beverage source and a second surface distal to the beverage source; a conduit in fluid communication with the beverage source entering the first surface of the housing and terminating proximate the second surface of the housing; a flow meter in fluid communication with the conduit; a multi-nodal flow rate controller disposed within the interior volume of said housing in contact with said conduit, the a multi-nodal flow rate controller including a processor; a user interface including a user-selectable indicia for providing data to the processor; a subsurface dispensing nozzle in fluid communication with the terminal end of the conduit, wherein flow through the conduit to the subsurface dispensing nozzle is compensated to maintain substantially hydraulic beverage flow within the conduit by adjusting the contact between the multi-nodal flow rate controller and the conduit; and wherein at least one of the beverage flow and aggregate volume of beverage dispensed is controlled by the multi-nodal flow rate controller based on data provided to the processor by a user operation of the user interface.