A triangularly shaped water cooler (receptacle) characterised by a vent down one side which acts as a structural feature and hinges which makes one side easily removable for parts replacement

摘要

A water cooler has three vertically elongate walls, which comprise a pair of side walls that converge rearwardly from a front wall. It has a removable top cover mounted on the walls, which is adapted to receive and support an inverted liquid container with a neck passing through an aperture in the top cover. An internal platform is mounted below the top cover to receive and support a removable coupling member, which incorporates a feed tube for insertion into the neck of the container when supported on the top wall. The platform also contains alongside the coupling member, an opening in registration with a thermal receptacle mounted below the platform for removably receiving a reservoir through the opening. The reservoir is connected to the feed tube to receive liquid from the inverted container through the opening, and a further flexible conduit is provided to conduct liquid the through the opening to a dispensing valve for controlling the flow of water through the further conduit to be dispensed within a dispensing recess in the front wall. The beverage dispenser can also contain a fan and air-filter. An apertured ventilation duct may extend vertically along the junction between the sidewalls and can be rigidly connected to two structural members by the platform, a base and an internal bulkhead. The front wall can be fixed to the two structural members by screws while the sidewalls have downwardly directed hooks, which engage slots in the structural members and the duct.