Patent ID: 6702153
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: B67D

Abstract:
A hot beverage dispenser with a beverage containing hollow, rigid, liner body having a top, bottom and an enveloping side wall extending between the top and the bottom of the liner body, a rigid housing protectively enclosing the beverage containing hollow, rigid, liner body and having a housing side wall surrounding the enveloping side wall and a housing bottom located beneath the bottom of the liner body, a base for supporting the housing bottom and the bottom of the hollow body above a support surface, the improvement being a manually removable faucet assembly, comprising:an outlet pipe connected to the bottom of the hollow body and having a generally horizontal section that extends outwardly from the enveloping side wall and through and outwardly from housing side wall of the rigid housing; a faucet with a faucet shank for mating overlapping sliding connection with the horizontal section that extends outwardly from the sidewall of the housing; a faucet latch member carried by the faucet shank; and a mating outlet pipe latch assembly supported outside of the housing side wall and in fixed position adjacent the outwardly extending horizontal section of the outlet pipe for releasable latching engagement with the faucet latch member to releaseably lock the faucet shank to the outlet pipe when the faucet latch member is in a preselected angular position relative to the faucet latch member and the faucet is in an operational position.