US 12,454,452 B2
Apparatus for dispensing a beverage
Max Tomas Lundberg, Copenhagen (DK); Per Bergelin, Malmö (SE); Anders Bruus, Copenhagen (DK); Michael Skovbjerg, Copenhagen (DK); Ann-Marie Finn, Copenhagen (DK); and Kenneth Holck Jakobsen, Solrød Strand (DK)
Assigned to Grad ApS, Copenhagen (DK)
Filed by Grad ApS, Copenhagen (DK)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/569,670.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/135,208, filed on Jan. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0219966 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. B67D 3/00 (2006.01); F25D 31/00 (2006.01)
CPC B67D 3/0077 (2013.01) [B67D 3/0003 (2013.01); B67D 3/0009 (2013.01); B67D 3/0025 (2013.01); B67D 3/0032 (2013.01); B67D 3/0035 (2013.01); B67D 3/0093 (2013.01); F25D 31/002 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Apparatus for dispensing a liquid, the apparatus comprising:
a housing including
a cradle structure adapted to receive a container containing the liquid and
an inlet in the cradle structure arranged to receive liquid from the container;
an outlet arranged to dispense the liquid from the housing;
a heat exchanger arranged within the housing and divided into a first zone and a second zone with the first zone being in fluid communication with the inlet and the second zone being in fluid communication with the outlet, the first zone being in limited fluid communication with the second zone; and
a temperature control element in thermal communication with the first zone and with the second zone,
the first zone being adapted to alter a temperature of the liquid in the first zone to a temperature substantially equal to a target temperature and the second zone being adapted to maintain the liquid from the first zone at the temperature substantially equal to the target temperature.