Front room beverage dispense apparatus
The invention relates to a beverage dispense apparatus that maintains syrup containers in a housing, thereby eliminating plumbing required by prior art Bag-in-Box dispensers.
1. A beverage dispensing apparatus comprising:
a housing;
a dispensing nozzle on the housing;
a cold plate disposed in the housing;
a syrup container disposed in the housing and containing, a syrup; and
a beverage delivery system disposed in the housing and configured to deliver a beverage mixture containing the syrup to the dispensing nozzle;
wherein the syrup container is cooled by the cold plate.
2. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the syrup container is in contact with the cold plate such that the cold plate directly cools the syrup.
3. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the housing comprises an insulated portion and a non-insulated portion and wherein the syrup container is disposed in the insulated portion.
4. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the cold plate is positioned adjacent to the insulated portion.
5. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a refrigeration system disposed in the housing, wherein the cold plate is indirectly cooled by the refrigeration system.
6. The beverage dispensing, apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a refrigeration system disposed in the housing, wherein the cold plate is directly cooled by the refrigeration system.
7. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the refrigeration system directly cools the housing by supplying a refrigerant to the cold plate.
8. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the refrigeration system directly cools the housing by supplying a cold secondary medium to the cold plate.
9. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the beverage mixture also contains water and wherein the beverage delivery system comprises a water delivery system that pumps water to the dispensing nozzle.
10. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the water is cooled by the cold plate.
11. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the beverage delivery system further comprises a syrup delivery system that pumps the syrup to the dispensing nozzle.
12. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the syrup container comprises a bag-in-box syrup container.
13. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the syrup container is disposed directly on top of the cold plate.
14. The beverage dispenser according to claim 1 , wherein the beverage mixture comprises carbonated water and the syrup.
15. The beverage dispenser according to claim 1 , wherein the beverage mixture comprises non-carbonated water and the syrup.
16. The beverage dispensing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a drink cup platform on the housing, wherein the drink cup platform is configured to support a drink' cup that receives the beverage mixture from the dispensing nozzle.
17. A beverage dispensing apparatus comprising:
a housing;
a dispensing nozzle on the housing;
a cold plate disposed in the housing;
a bag-in-box syrup container disposed in the housing and containing a syrup;
a beverage delivery system disposed in the housing and configured to deliver a beverage mixture containing water and the syrup to the dispensing, nozzle, wherein the water is cooled by the cold plate; and
a refrigeration system disposed in the housing and supplying a refrigerant or cold secondary medium to the cold plate; and
wherein the syrup container is in contact with the cold plate such that the cold plate cools syrup in the syrup container.