Robert Edwin Mathews

US Patent:

45909741, May 27, 1986

Filed:

Dec 22, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/564397

Inventors:

Robert B. Mathews - Salt Lake City UT

Assignee:

Carb-A-Drink International, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

International Classification:

B65B 304

US Classification:

141 1

Abstract:

A self-service beverage dispenser which includes a cabinet, a plurality of dispensing heads mounted in upper portion of the cabinet and a support for bottles to receive the beverages that are dispensed from the dispensing heads. The support for the bottles includes a trough carried by the cabinet beneath the dispensing heads to receive and to carry away beverages spilled into the trough and a perforated positioning platform for a succession of bottles forming a screen cover for the spill trough. A support for a succession of bottles to receive beverage from a dispensing head. Optionally a positioning bracket secured to the cabinet is provided beneath each nozzle for holding a bottle with the filling opening in the neck thereof out of direct alignment of the gravity induced stream of beverage flowing from a dispensing head. Disposable funnels are provided for surrounding a nozzle at its upper, larger end and for entering the filling opening of the bottle supported on said perforated platform at its lower, smaller end, thus providing a flow path for beverage flowing from a dispensing head into the open end of the bottle to be filled.