Lancer Corporation

The Coca-Cola Company

Lancer Partnership, Ltd

Richard Logue Laughlin

Alfred A Schroeder

Bennet Gibbon Credle

Daniel S Quartarone

Thaddeus M Jablonski

Paul Anderson Phillips

William A Edwards

Thomas J Chadwell

Franchot Chang

Michael S Meyer

Ryan D Schuchart

Bennett Gibbon Credle

An improved cold plate for use with a beverage dispenser. The beverage dispenser has an ice chest and a carbonator unit. The cold plate is positioned beneath the ice chest. The cold plate includes a first surface in direct contact with the ice chest. The cold plate further includes a second surface with a concave middle portion such that the carbonator unit is positioned directly therein for intimate contact therewith.

Cold plate

An apparatus for dispensing ice includes a bin and a shroud that contains a recess for housing a wheel. The shroud mounts to a front wall of the bin and includes a chute that communicates exterior to the bin. The shroud further includes a curved plate that directs ice into the recess so that the wheel can raise the ice to the chute. A plate mounts at an angle sloping downward towards the front wall of the bin to direct ice onto the curved plate of the shroud. A discharge chute assembly mounts to the ice bin and communicates with the chute of the shroud to permit the delivery of the ice exterior to the bin. A gear motor drives the wheel to facilitate the lifting of the ice to the chute of the shroud. Alternatively, in a combination ice and beverage dispenser, the plate mounted within the bin is replaced with a cold plate mounted within the bin at an angle sloping downward towards the front wall of the bin. The cold plate directs ice in the bin onto the curved plate of the shroud and communicates at inlets to a beverage source to cool beverages before dispensing. Dispensing valves communicate with outlets from the cold plate to permit the dispensing of beverages from the ice and beverage dispensing apparatus.

Ice dispenser and combination ice and beverage dispenser

An apparatus for monitoring and controlling the level of ice in an ice storage container includes an emitter mounted within the ice storage container and a detector mounted directly opposite from the emitter. A pulse circuit drives the emitter such that it outputs a pulse train that triggers the detector. A receiver circuit outputs a signal responsive to the detection of the pulse train by the detector. A controller activates an ice maker responsive to the output of the receiver circuit.

Method and apparatus for sensing and controlling the level of ice in an

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Richard Logue Laughlin