Patent ID: 8161769

Claim:
A chest for quenching beverages including: walls forming an interior cooling volume, for holding a cooling liquid; a refrigeration unit for cooling the cooling liquid; a quench tray for holding containers of beverage, which moves vertically between a first position and a second position, said first position being a relatively lower position and within the cooling liquid, and said second position being a relatively upper position and removed from the cooling liquid; a mechanism for moving said quench tray between said first position and said second position, including a rotatable disk affixed to an interior of one of said walls, said rotatable disk including a spiral groove which engages a boss on said quenching tray, whereby rotational movement of said rotatable disk causes vertical movement of said quench tray; a sensor for sensing a temperature of the cooling liquid; and a control device for receiving user input, receiving input for said sensor, for controlling said refrigeration unit, and for controlling movement of said quench tray between said first position and said second position.