Refrigeration – Processes – Treating an article
Patent
1993-12-15
1995-05-16
Tapoical, William E.
Refrigeration
Processes
Treating an article
62529, 624572, F25D 308
Patent
active
054150027
ABSTRACT:
Thermal Exchanger for Beverages is a reusable, attachable cover for a cup type or can type beverage container. The container's contents can be almost any kind of beverage. The contents in the beverage container can be at room temperature or even hot. The beverage is chilled by sucking on the exposed end of a straw like tube the same way as you would suck on a conventional straw. The degree of temperature decrease of the beverage is dependent on the temperature of the beverage in the container, the type of frozen matter used in the retention mass, and the amount of time the beverage remains in the Thermal Exchanger. Within the attachable cover, the straw like apparatus is coiled inside a surrounding envelope containing a freezable gel of the type that is used in various applications such as freezer packs. The entire Thermal Exchanger is placed in a freezer for several hours until the gel is frozen. When attached to the beverage container where it will be used, it is initially either in a frozen state or almost in a frozen state. As the liquid in the container is drawn through the straw like tube as a result of the user's sipping action, the Thermal Exchanger removes heat from the beverage.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4091632 (1978-05-01), Marchewka et al.
patent: 4554189 (1985-11-01), Marshall
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