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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1980
William A Harvill, Stone Mountain, GA (US);
The Cornelius Company, Anoka, MN (US);
The Coca-Cola Company, Altanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A beverage dispenser having a beverage ingredient cooling tank for containing a liquid heat exchange medium such as ice water has an improved level control and drain for the tank having a first medium conduit with an inverted U-shape with an upper apex of the U-shape conduit being substantially at the desired level of medium in the tank, an open anti-syphon port to ambient from the conduit at a level above the apex, an outlet above and emptying into a drip tray under a dispensing nozzle, and a second medium conduit comprising a flexible tube fluidly connected to the bottom of the tank and to an inlet of the first conduit; excess liquid in the tank escapes out of the first conduit into the drip tray, and the second conduit is disconnectible from the first conduit for draining the tank into the drip tray.