Patents by Inventor Francis P. Knuettel, II

Francis P. Knuettel, II has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5494195
    Abstract: A machine dispenses chilled alcoholic beverage using a thermoelectric cooling unit positioned within a machine enclosure formed by a housing having side and top walls. A manifold receives beverage, which flows through a cooling channel extending from the manifold to a beverage faucet positioned on the outer surface of the housing. The cooling channel has walls defining the channel. A thermoelectric cooling device extends along a portion of the channel walls and has a cold junction surface proximal to the beverage which cools the beverage in conjunction with a hot junction surface spaced from the cold junction surface and distal to the beverage. A heat sink extends from the hot junction surface for dissipating heat from the hot junction surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Inventors: Francis P. Knuettel, II, Mohamad K. Moallemi
  • Patent number: 5427276
    Abstract: A machine dispenses viscous, chilled alcoholic beverage and has a housing forming an enclosure with side, top and bottom surfaces. The side, top and bottom surfaces are of such dimension to form a housing of a size to be placed on the countertop of a bar and the like. A refrigeration cooling unit is contained within the enclosure and includes a compressor, condenser and evaporator coil. A beverage faucet is mounted on the side surface of the housing and a manifold is mounted in a top portion of the housing. A cooling tank is mounted at a vertical height above the beverage faucet. Beverage is received from the manifold into the tank. At least a portion of the evaporator coil extends within the tank for cooling alcoholic beverage contained therein. A beverage delivery tube connects between the cooling tank and the beverage faucet for delivering cooled beverage by gravity flow from the cooling tank to the beverage faucet. At least one bottle mount extends from the manifold upward through the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Sidney Frank Importing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Francis P. Knuettel, II, Mohamad K. Moallemi