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Sidney Frank Importing Co., Inc.

Mohamad K Moallemi

Francis P Knuettel, Ii

A machine dispenses chilled alcoholic beverage using a thermoelectric cooling unit positioned within a machine enclosure formed by a housing having side and top walls. A manifold receives beverage, which flows through a cooling channel extending from the manifold to a beverage faucet positioned on the outer surface of the housing. The cooling channel has walls defining the channel. A thermoelectric cooling device extends along a portion of the channel walls and has a cold junction surface proximal to the beverage which cools the beverage in conjunction with a hot junction surface spaced from the cold junction surface and distal to the beverage. A heat sink extends from the hot junction surface for dissipating heat from the hot junction surface.

Machine for dispensing chilled beverage using thermoelectric cooling

A machine dispenses viscous, chilled alcoholic beverage and has a housing forming an enclosure with side, top and bottom surfaces. The side, top and bottom surfaces are of such dimension to form a housing of a size to be placed on the countertop of a bar and the like. A refrigeration cooling unit is contained within the enclosure and includes a compressor, condenser and evaporator coil. A beverage faucet is mounted on the side surface of the housing and a manifold is mounted in a top portion of the housing. A cooling tank is mounted at a vertical height above the beverage faucet. Beverage is received from the manifold into the tank. At least a portion of the evaporator coil extends within the tank for cooling alcoholic beverage contained therein. A beverage delivery tube connects between the cooling tank and the beverage faucet for delivering cooled beverage by gravity flow from the cooling tank to the beverage faucet. At least one bottle mount extends from the manifold upward through the housing. Each bottle mount is configured for receiving a stopper shaft of a bottle stopper inserted within a beverage container so that the beverage container may be invertibly mounted on the housing.

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Bayside, NY, United States of America

Mohamad K Moallemi