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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1981
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1979
Harry H Pryor, Crestwood, MO (US);
UMC Industries, Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A hot beverage vendor having a hot water tank for supplying hot water for hot beverages, such as coffee, tea, soup and chocolate. On entering the tank, water is directed by baffles to a heater in the tank adjacent the bottom of the tank where it is heated. The heated water gradually rises in the tank for flow into the open top of a relatively small collecting tank mounted inside the hot water tank above the heater. The vendor further includes apparatus operable on a vend cycle for dispensing hot water from the collecting tank for the vending of a drink, with the dispensed water being relatively rapidly replaced by heated water flowing into the collecting tank from the main part of the hot water tank.