Abstract: A cold plate unit includes a coolant system and a fluid system in heat exchange relationship, and a metallic unit. The coolant system has inlet and outlet manifolds and a plurality of coolant lines each including a plurality of loops. The fluid system includes at least one fluid line preferably also including a plurality of loops, and preferably is interleaved with the coolant lines. The metallic unit incorporates the coolant and fluid systems. An apparatus for cooling at least one fluid includes a cold plate and a dispenser unit. The cold plate unit includes a coil basket having a fluid system and a coolant system. The fluid system includes a plurality of fluid lines each comprising a plurality of loops. The coolant system includes coolant inlet and outlet lines, at least one inlet manifold, at least one outlet manifold and a plurality of coolant line segments each comprising a plurality of loops.

Abstract: A beverage dispensing tower includes an exterior surface; at least one beverage dispensing tap and a beverage supply line connected thereto; and a coolant flow path in sufficient thermal contact with the exterior surface so that as coolant flows through the flow path, at least part of the exterior surface can be cooled to a temperature below 32° F. when the dispensing tower is in contact with air having and ambient temperature of 68° F., the coolant flow path not being in direct contact with the beverage supply line.

Abstract: A cold plate unit includes a coolant system and a fluid system in heat exchange relationship, and a metallic unit. The coolant system has inlet and outlet manifolds and a plurality of coolant lines each including a plurality of loops. The fluid system includes at least one fluid line preferably also including a plurality of loops, and preferably is interleaved with the coolant lines. The metallic unit incorporates the coolant and fluid systems. An apparatus for cooling at least one fluid includes a cold plate and a dispenser unit. The cold plate unit includes a coil basket having a fluid system and a coolant system. The fluid system includes a plurality of fluid lines each comprising a plurality of loops. The coolant system includes coolant inlet and outlet lines, at least one inlet manifold, at least one outlet manifold and a plurality of coolant line segments each comprising a plurality of loops.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling at least one fluid includes separable cold plate and dispenser units. The cold plate unit includes a coolant system, a fluid system and a metallic unit. The coolant system defines a cold plate portion and a tower portion. The cold plate portion of the coolant system has a primary inlet manifold and a primary outlet manifold, and the tower portion has a secondary inlet manifold and a secondary outlet manifold. The coolant system further includes a first plurality of coolant line segments connecting the primary and secondary inlet manifolds and a second plurality of coolant line segments connecting the secondary and primary outlet manifolds. The fluid system also defines a cold plate portion and a tower portion, the portions being in heat exchange relationship with the coolant system. The metallic unit includes unitary cold plate and tower portions which respectively incorporate the cold plate and tower portions of the coolant system and fluid system.

Abstract: An apparatus for cooling at least one fluid includes a coolant system defining a cold plate portion and a tower portion, a fluid system in heat exchange relationship with the coolant system and likewise defining a cold plate portion and a tower portion, means for dispensing at least one fluid from the tower portion, and a metallic unit comprising unitary cold plate and tower portions which respectively incorporate the cold plate and tower portions of the coolant system and of the fluid system.

Abstract: A beer-dispensing apparatus including a source of cooled pressurized gas-ladened beer, an elongate beer delivery line extending from the source of beer to a remote beer-dispensing station, a normally closed beer-dispensing valve at the beer-dispensing station, a liquid glycol chilling and recirculating unit, a heat exchanger beer delivery structure including an elongate beer-conducting balance line smaller in inside diameter than the beer delivery line and connected with and extending between the beer delivery line and the valve, an elongate glycol-conducting tube extending longitudinally of and in heat transfer relationship with the balance tube and connected with the glycol chilling and recirculating unit to cause chilled glycol to continuously circulate through it; a thermally insulated heat-storing aluminum body about the balance and glycol tubes; glycol flowing through the glycol tube progressively lowers the temperature of beer flowing downstream through the balance tube to the valve.

Abstract: An improved cold plate structure including a plurality of like horizontally disposed, elongate, sinuously formed liquid-conducting heat transfer tubing units of stainless steel tubing having laterally spaced elongate runner portions and recurvate end portions extending between related ends of adjacent runner portions; said units are arranged in vertical stacked relationship with each other; a plurality of tie bars tightly binding the units in stacked relationship with each other with their adjacent runner and end portions in tight substantially uniform heat-conducting contact with each other and having elongate horizontal upper and lower spacer portions extending transverse the stacked units in pressure bearing engagement therewith; a body of aluminum cast about the units and tie bars and defining a flat horizontal top icing surface that is tangential with upper edges of the upper spacer portions of the tie bars and a lower surface that is tangential with lower edges of the lower spacer portions of the tie ba