Patent ID: 7757498

Claim:
A beverage dispensing system, comprising: a beverage dispenser including a beverage dispensing valve and a cold plate having fluid chilling circuits; a beverage dispensing tower remote from said beverage dispenser and including a beverage dispensing valve and a heat exchanger having a heat exchange circuit and a fluid chilling circuit; means for flowing a beverage component through said heat exchanger fluid chilling circuit to a beverage component inlet to said tower beverage dispensing valve; a closed-loop fluid circulating circuit extending between said beverage dispenser and said tower and including a fluid chilling circuit of said cold plate and said heat exchange circuit of said heat exchanger; and means for circulating fluid through said closed-loop circuit to chill the fluid upon passage through said cold plate fluid chilling circuit and to deliver the chilled fluid to and through said heat exchange circuit of said heat exchanger to chill beverage component flowed through said heat exchanger fluid chilling circuit, so that chilled beverage component is delivered to said tower beverage dispensing valve.