Patent ID: 7861892

Claim:
A portable draft bar comprising: an insulated chamber having an open top, insulated side walls, and an insulated bottom; an insulated top for covering the open top; a horizontal shoulder extending around the inside of the side walls near the open top; a rigid panel dimensioned to removably fit inside the chamber supported by the shoulder, the panel having opposed broad first and second faces; at least one beverage dispensing tap tower with a beverage outlet affixed to the panel and extending from the first face with a beverage tower inlet passing through the panel and extending from the second face; a perforated tray supported in a receiving pan mounted in the first face and disposed so as to be below the beverage outlet of the at least one tap tower; at least one elongate thermally conductive cooling channel within the insulated chamber below the shoulder having a connection at a first end to the beverage tower inlet and a connection at a second end to a through connector in a side wall for removable connection to a source of beverage under pressure; the panel constructed so as to be supported on the shoulder in a first operating position in which the at least one tower extends above the open top for dispensing cold beverage when the chamber contains ice to cool the at least one cooling channel and a source of beverage under pressure is connected to the through connector; and the panel constructed so as to be supported on the shoulder in an inverted, second operating position in which the at least one tower extends downward into the chamber where it is protected and so that the insulated top may cover and insulate the chamber for transport.