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The present beverage cooling apparatus has an insulated container with an inclined bottom wall shaped to fit on top of a wheel well in the engine compartment of a car. A series of coiled pipes inside the container can be connected to the car\s air conditioner to pass refrigerant through the interior

The present beverage cooling apparatus has an insulated container with an inclined bottom wall shaped to fit on top of a wheel well in the engine compartment of a car. A series of coiled pipes inside the container can be connected to the car\s air conditioner to pass refrigerant through the interior of the container to cool the drinking water or other beverage. A thermostatic expansion valve cools the refrigerant just before it enters the container. This valve is regulated by a temperature sensor which senses the temperature of the refrigerant as it leaves the container. The container has a capped drain opening at the bottom at its deeper end, a capped fill opening at the top, and a freeze plug on one side which detaches itself from the container if the beverage freezes. A motor-pump unit on top of the container has a beverage intake pipe extending down near the bottom of the container at its deeper end, and a filter is provided on this end of the intake pipe. The pump discharges the beverage to a dashboard-mounted dispensing valve through a T-fitting, a conduit with a U-bend, and a charcoal filter. The T-fitting has a small passage extending down into the container at the top. The U-bend in the conduit has a small bottom opening at its low point.

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A beverage cooling apparatus for use on an automotive vehicle having an air conditioner, said apparatus comprising: an insulated container for holding the beverage having substantially parallel opposite end walls; a continuous pipe assembly having a plurality of rows of several interconnected pipe c

A beverage cooling apparatus for use on an automotive vehicle having an air conditioner, said apparatus comprising: an insulated container for holding the beverage having substantially parallel opposite end walls; a continuous pipe assembly having a plurality of rows of several interconnected pipe coils, each row of pipe coils extending helically about an axis which extends substantially parallel to said end walls, and said rows of pipe coils being positioned in succession along the inside of the container from one end row located adjacent one of said end walls of the container to an opposite end row located adjacent the opposite end wall; means for introducing refrigerant from the air conditioner into said one end row of pipe coils in the container to flow through the successive rows of pipe coils for cooling the beverage in the container; means for passing the refrigerant from the opposite end row of pipe coils in the container back to the air conditioner; a motor-pump unit mounted on top of the container; and a beverage intake pipe connected at its upper end to the inlet of the pump in said motor-pump unit, said intake pipe extending down into the container and terminating in an open lower end in close proximity to the bottom of the container for passing the beverage from the container up to the pump.