Pepsico, Inc.

Stokely-van Camp, Inc.

Tropicana Products, Inc.

Patrick J Finlay

Kenneth Alan Ritsher

James Matthew Collins

Brent William Lindberg

Andrzej Skoskiewicz

Michael Goldenberg

Jennifer Antczak

Jacinthe Brillet

Robert Nathan Le Bras-Brown

Hai Shuo Cheng

Jenni Dill

Carlton Allard Gibbs

Gloria Chou

Alexandra Garcia

Jennifer Te-Hsin Antczak

Susie Wang

Mary Barnard

Matthew T Gill

Dennis C Connor

Laurent Robin-Prevallee

Laurent Hainaut

Philip Nigel Bordet-Stead

Pankaj Kumar

Andy Jordan

Balakrishna Haridas

James M Stelzer

Peidong Han

Dwayne Gannon

Michael Todd Payne

Martin Beck

Graham Andrews

Michael J Swindeman

Nathan Robert Le Bras-Brown

Christopher Scanlon

Robert Keen

Catherine Xiaochen Yang

Rebecca Preston

Michael T Payne

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A fountain-style carbonated soft drink dispenser includes a housing adapted to attach to a beverage container, an actuator for selectively opening a fluid conduit, and one or more long tubes that vary a pressure drop across the dispensing assembly and convey fluid. The resistance through the tube(s) is decreased as the pressure within the container decreases so as to maintain a substantially constant flow rate throughout dispensing.

Dispensing mechanism using long tubes to vary pressure drop

A dispenser includes a dispenser body which defines a flow passage, a valve assembly, and an actuator. The valve assembly is disposed in the flow passage and includes a first valve member and a second valve member. An actuator is coupled to the valve assembly. When the actuator is manipulated through a first range of motion, only the first of the two valve members is displaced, and when the actuator is manipulated through a second range of motion, both the first and second valve members are displaced in unison.

Dispenser having a conical valve assembly

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Patrick J Finlay