Patents by Inventor Stephen K. Verteeg

Stephen K. Verteeg 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).

  • Cooling bank control assembly for a beverage dispensing system
    Patent number: 6662573
    Abstract: A beverage dispensing system includes a cooling chamber filled with a bath of cooling fluid for cooling beverage fluids. A cooling unit, including an evaporator coil extending from the cooling unit into the cooling chamber, freezes the cooling fluid into a frozen cooling bank about the evaporator coil. Sensor units positioned at desired locations about the evaporator coil provide output corresponding to the size and shape of the frozen cooling bank. Also, a control unit reads the output from the sensor units and operates the cooling unit to regulate the growth of the frozen cooling bank. In addition, the control unit may read output from temperature sensors attached to dispensing valves or monitoring ambient temperature conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Lancer Partnership, Ltd.
    Inventors: John T. Hawkins, Jr., Stephen K. Verteeg