Stevens-lee Company

White Consoldiated Industries, Inc.

Jerome D Powlas

Steven T Dorsey

Karl D Johnson

A beverage dispenser, usable in dispensing milk, has a large refrigerated cabinet for housing large beverage containers. The beverage dispenser has a handle/valve with a first closed position, a second open position, and a third position for insertion and removal of a flexible milk tube. The handle includes two arms, and the user holds a cup between the two arms to receive the dispensed milk. The valve includes a cooling plate which refrigerates the milk in the flexible milk tube extending through the valve. The valve has a pinch plate which closes the flexible tube with a rocking motion, initially pinching the flexible tube at its lowest point and subsequently reopening the tube slightly to suck any beverage drops on the end of the tube back up into the tube. A hinged shelf is provided for ease of loading and unloading milk cases in and out of the refrigerated cabinet. The milk case has angled hand hold openings to allow lifting without repositioning of the wrists. The milk case is specially made to receive a connector from a milk bag, and includes a tie which raises the flexible milk tube prior to insertion of the flexible tube into the valve. A secondary shut-off mechanism is on the inside of the cabinet to shut off flow control by the handle.

Beverage dispenser cabinet and holder

Beverage dispensing structure with cabinet for beverage container with

Valve for beverage dispenser

A vapor compression refrigeration system for cooling a cabinet having a thermostat for cycling the compressor off and on to maintain a predetermined temperature range in the cabinet includes a subcooling flow control valve at the inlet to the capillary tube restriction. The valve is operated by a sealed bellows containing a refrigerant so that the valve is responsive to the fluid entering the valve. The valve is calibrated so that only a subcooled liquid refrigerant can flow through the valve and if the entering refrigerant is above a predetermined level the valve will close to completely block all flow between the condenser and the evaporator, and the valve will stay in the closed position at all times when the compressor is not running.

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Maple Grove, MN, United States of America

Jerome D Powlas