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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2007
Thomas E. Giles, Orfordville, WI (US);
William L. Pursell, Madison, WI (US);
Neil D. Roiland, Deerfield, WI (US);
David Timpel, Deerfield, WI (US);
Thomas E. Giles, Orfordville, WI (US);
William L. Pursell, Madison, WI (US);
Neil D. Roiland, Deerfield, WI (US);
David Timpel, Deerfield, WI (US);
Berg Company, LLC, Monona, WI (US);
Abstract
A beverage dispenser has a faucet with a spout, a fitting for connection to a beverage supply, and a lever operated valve. A servo motor, coupled to the lever, operates the faucet and proportionally controls the flow of the beverage. That proportional flow control manages the amount of beverage foaming. A flow sensor has a magnetic turbine within the faucet and a Hall effect element that magnetically senses turbine motion and produces a signal indicating an amount of beverage flow. A keypad enables service personnel to designate various portions of the beverage to automatically fill serving containers of different sizes. A control circuit responds to activation of the keypad and to the flow sensor by operating the servo motor to dispense the related quantity of the beverage.