Abstract: An advertising piece that is arranged for securement to a portable dispenser in which a beverage is retained for dispensing. The portable beverage dispenser is adapted to be worn on the back of a vendor. The beverages retained within the dispenser is also commonly packaged in single-serving containers, e.g., eight or twelve ounce bottles, cans, cups or cartons, usually bearing distinctive packaging designs including stylized trademarks, pictures, words and designs that enables the beverage manufacturer or merchant to distinguish its beverage from all other beverage products. The advertising piece is an enlarged version of the single-serving beverage container and includes an exterior surface that is configured to resemble the shape of a single-serving beverage container. The advertising piece may also include a rendering of enlarged trademark indicia, stylized words, pictures or designs or a combination thereof, which in total replicates the exterior surface of the sing e-serving beverage container.

Abstract: A portable dispenser for beverage containers for use by a vendor. The dispenser comprises a strap assembly and is arranged to be worn like a backpack and includes a housing and a chamber located within the housing. A rack, disposed within the chamber, comprises at least one dispensing chute. The dispensing chute comprises a receiving end to permit the insertion of a plurality of beverage containers therein, an intermediate length for retaining the beverage containers in the chute in single-file relationship and an outlet end. The dispensing chute is arranged to present a successive beverage container to the outlet end upon the removal of a preceding beverage container from the outlet end. The dispenser additionally comprises at least one dispensing port located adjacent the rack. The dispensing port is in communication with the outlet end of the dispensing chute to enable the vendor to remove beverage containers from the dispenser.

Abstract: A portable beverage dispenser for use by a vendor. The dispenser comprises a tank worn on the back of the vendor and having an insulated internal chamber for receiving a carbonated beverage to be dispensed by a pressurized gas in the chamber, a filling conduit for filling the chamber with the carbonated beverage, a pressurized gas supply for pressurizing the chamber, and an outlet nozzle. The chamber has a concave bottom wall with a small concave recess at its nadir. The conduit extends into the chamber at an acute angle to the chamber's longitudinal axis and has a port centered on that axis immediately adjacent the concave recess. The conduit carries carbonated beverage into the chamber so that the beverage enters the recess and quickly fills it with minimal foaming and so that the level of the beverage in the chamber is above the port to ensure that further filling of the chamber is also accomplished with minimal foaming.

Abstract: A portable beverage dispenser adapted to be carried by a vendor includes an insulated tank having an internal compartment in which a beverage to be dispensed is retained. A discharge passage is provided through a wall of the insulated tank and communicates with the internal compartment adjacent a lower end of the compartment. A pressurizing passage extends through a wall of the tank and communicates with the internal compartment adjacent an upper end of the compartment. A pump is attached to the tank and includes a fluid transmitting line for directing a pressurizing gas into the upper end of the internal compartment through the pressurizing passage for pressurizing a beverage within the compartment, and a nozzle communicates with the discharge passage adjacent the lower end of the internal compartment for dispensing the beverage.