US 11,724,928 B2
Beverage dispensing machines and backblocks thereof
Brian Mastro, Des Plaines, IL (US); Zachary Dresser, Batavia, IL (US); Chris Coul, Geneva, IL (US); and E. Scott Sevcik, Crystal Lake, IL (US)
Assigned to Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc., Osseo, MN (US)
Filed by Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc., Osseo, MN (US)
Filed on May 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/743,007.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/193,800, filed on May 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0380192 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. B67D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B67D 1/0044 (2013.01) [B67D 1/0057 (2013.01); B67D 1/0081 (2013.01); B67D 2210/00034 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A backblock for use in beverage dispensing, comprising:
a body having:
an inlet configured to receive a fluid;
an outlet configured to dispense the fluid; and
a cavity defined within the body, the cavity open to the inlet and to the outlet;
a spindle elongated in an axial dimension between a first end and a second end, the spindle positioned with the first end within the cavity and the second end exterior of the body to permit rotation of the spindle about the axial dimension within the cavity;
a tab at the second end of the spindle; and
a latching plate configured for translative movement relative to the body, the latching plate comprising a keyhole with a bore and a channel wherein the bore is dimensioned to receive the spindle and the channel is dimensioned to receive the tab, the latching plate having a first latch position proximate to the body and a second latch position spaced apart from the body, wherein when the tab is in alignment with the channel, the latching plate can translate to the second latch position about the tab and when the tab is out of alignment with the channel, the tab retains the latching plate in the first latch position.