Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.

Christopher Nowak

Zbigniew G Lassota

Michael W Lassota

An insulated beverage dispenser ( ) with an outer housing ( ) having reinforcing cavities ( ) and reinforcing ribs ( ) on a canted surface ( ) of a top closure ( ) to resist distortion that is fitted over an integrally formed inner liner ( ) in spaced relationship to provide a gap ( ) that is evacuated to approximately 8% of standard atmospheric pressure. The bottom closure ( ) of the inner liner ( ) is symmetrically tilted downwardly across the center to a center-offset drain opening ( ) to reduce the lateral extent ( ) of a dispense tube ( ) to reduce the quantity of beverage contained within the dispense tube ( ) and subject to heat loss between the drain opening ( ) to and a faucet ( ). The dispense tube ( ) is protectively contained within a hollow bottom section ( ) for purposes of insulation and is also wrapped in foam insulation ( ) for further insulation.

Beverage dispenser with center off-set dispense tube

A beverage dispenser ( ) with a faucet assembly ( ) manually removably attached to an integral, stainless steel, U-shaped outlet pipe ( ) having a generally horizontal section ( ) that extends outwardly from the enveloping side ( ) has a faucet with a faucet shank ( ) for mating overlapping connection with the horizontal section ( ) and a faucet latch member ( ) carried by the faucet shank ( ) and a mating outlet pipe latch assembly ( ) for releasable latching engagement with the faucet latch member ( ) to releaseably lock the faucet shank ( ) to the outlet pipe ( ). A faucet guard assembly ( ) with a generally horizontal section ( ) secured to the bottom ( ) of the dispenser ( ) has a lowermost guard surface ( ) located at or beneath a lowermost portion of the faucet nozzle ( ) to prevent snagging of the faucet nozzle ( ) with the inside of a cup held up to the nozzle for receipt of beverage from beneath the nozzle, and an upturned section ( ) in front of the faucet ( ) that is at least partly transparent to enable viewing of the nozzle from in front of the guard and may carry a removable U-shaped beverage name or product label ( ).

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Mundelein, IL, United States of America

Christopher Nowak