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A self-service beverage dispenser which includes a cabinet, a plurality of dispensing heads mounted in upper portion of the cabinet and a support for bottles to receive the beverages that are dispensed from the dispensing heads. The support for the bottles includes a trough carried by the cabinet be

A self-service beverage dispenser which includes a cabinet, a plurality of dispensing heads mounted in upper portion of the cabinet and a support for bottles to receive the beverages that are dispensed from the dispensing heads. The support for the bottles includes a trough carried by the cabinet beneath the dispensing heads to receive and to carry away beverages spilled into the trough and a perforated positioning platform for a succession of bottles forming a screen cover for the spill trough. A support for a succession of bottles to receive beverage from a dispensing head. Optionally a positioning bracket secured to the cabinet is provided beneath each nozzle for holding a bottle with the filling opening in the neck thereof out of direct alignment of the gravity induced stream of beverage flowing from a dispensing head. Disposable funnels are provided for surrounding a nozzle at its upper, larger end and for entering the filling opening of the bottle supported on said perforated platform at its lower, smaller end, thus providing a flow path for beverage flowing from a dispensing head into the open end of the bottle to be filled.

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The method of dispensing beverage through a nozzle that must be kept sanitary to a customer\s container, which has a filling opening and which may be contaminated without contaminating the nozzle from contact with the container which comprises placing a customer\s container in filling position on a

The method of dispensing beverage through a nozzle that must be kept sanitary to a customer\s container, which has a filling opening and which may be contaminated without contaminating the nozzle from contact with the container which comprises placing a customer\s container in filling position on a support spaced from the nozzzle a sufficient distance that the danger of contact of the container with the nozzle during placement of the container on and removal of the container from the support is negligible, inserting a sanitary disposable paper means between the nozzle and the filling opening of the container, dispensing beverage through the nozzle and disposable paper means into the container until it is filled with the desired quantity thereof, removing the container from the filling position, and discarding the disposable paper means.