Abstract: In a compact beverage dispenser of the type in which the conditioned beverage is chilled and displayed in a plastic bowl atop a stand which houses a compression system of refrigeration, ambient air intake is fan-driven through and along the heat-exchange fins of a condenser grid which extends horizontally fully across spaces between lateral sidewalls of the stand. A single vertical-axis motor both pumps the beverage and rotates the refrigeration-system axial-flow fan in an upper region of the stand, above the horizontal condenser; a separately-motorized compressor package is disposed in the lower region of the stand, below the horizontal condenser, where it is bathed by heat-removing air flow forced downwardly by the fan in the upper region.

Abstract: In a beverage dispenser of the type in which conditioned liquid is to be tapped through a bottom opening of a bowl normally closed from within by a valve member, unseating of the valve member and attendant gravitational release of liquid are conveniently brought about by tilting a wider Z-shaped sheet-metal handle which is keyed with the valve member to form an interlocked valving assembly further including only a spring and a suspension provided by external bowl flanges.

Abstract: In a refrigerated beverage dispenser having a plurality of coplanar circular cooling plates closing the bottoms of an array of beverage bowls, each concentric turn of a single multi-turn sinuous coiling of evaporator tubing is bonded in intimate heat-exchange relationships with all of the cooling plates and directs flow of the refrigerant serially across and part way around each cooling plate, and back, in succession. Tubing which interconnects across the spaces between adjacent cooling plates is clustered, to promote maximum arcuate spanning of the plates by those more active portions of the tubing best disposed to provide the cooling.