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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2018
Taylor Commercial Foodservice Inc., Rockton, IL (US);
Kevin H. Bischel, Rockton, IL (US);
Taylor Commercial Foodservice Inc., Rockton, IL (US);
Abstract
A dispensing apparatus () comprises: a freezing cylinder (); a water flowpath (); a first controllable valve () along the water flowpath; a syrup flowpath (), merging with the water flowpath and proceeding as a water/syrup flowpath () to the freezing cylinder; and a second controllable valve () along the syrup flowpath. The first controllable valve and the second controllable valve each comprise: a valve body () having a cartridge compartment (), an inlet () to the cartridge compartment, and an outlet () from the cartridge compartment; and a valve cartridge (). The valve cartridge comprises: a cartridge body () mounted in the cartridge compartment; a valve element () carried by the cartridge body and shiftable between a first condition permitting communication between the inlet and the outlet and a second condition blocking communication between the inlet and the outlet; and a solenoid () carried by the cartridge body and coupled to the valve element to drive movement of the valve element.