Beverage pitcher cold plate station

Abstract

A container and cold plate combination that keeps liquids cold includes a pitcher made from a pitcher housing material, or having outside and/or inside metallic liners that are integral to the pitcher bottom which is metallic and configured to be in direct surface contact with an underlying cold plate of a cold plate station system. The cold plate lowers the temperature of the metallic liners or pitcher housing and the cold is transferred to a liquid in the container.

1 . A combination single or multiple container cold beverage station comprising:
 a one or multiple station cold plate system comprising one or more spaced-apart cold plates having means for maintaining said cold plates at a desired temperature;   a beverage container having an outside metallic liner that extends downwardly and is integral to a metallic bottom portion of said beverage container, said metallic bottom portion being in surface contact with said underlying cold plate of said cold plate system,   wherein through thermal conductivity, a colder temperature of each respective cold plate transfers said colder temperature to said beverage container so as to maintain a beverage temperature at a desired beverage cold temperature.   
   
   
       2 . The beverage station according to  claim 1 , further comprising means for intermittently powering the cold plate system for desired time intervals. 
   
   
       3 . The beverage station according to  claim 1 , further comprising one or more designated locations on a housing of said cold plate system for providing indicia for identifying a content of each container disposed on an adjacent cold plate. 
   
   
       4 . A combination single or multiple container cold beverage station comprising;
 a one or multiple station cold plate system comprising one or more spaced-apart cold plates having means for maintaining said cold plates at a desired temperature;   a beverage container having an inside liner made of metallic material that extends downwardly and is integral to a non-insulated bottom portion of said beverage container and is configured to have a depth configured to be in surface contact with an underlying cold plate of said cold plate system,   wherein through thermal conductivity, a colder temperature of each cold plate transfers said colder temperature to said beverage container so as to maintain a beverage temperature at a desired beverage cold temperature.   
   
   
       5 . The beverage station according to  claim 4 , further comprising means for intermittently powering the cold plate system for desired time intervals. 
   
   
       6 . The beverage station according to  claim 4 , further comprising one or more designated locations on a housing of said cold plate system for providing indicia for identifying a content of each container disposed on an adjacent cold plate. 
   
   
       7 . A combination single or multiple container cold beverage station comprising:
 a one or multiple station cold plate system comprising one or more spaced-apart cold plates having means for maintaining said cold plates at a desired temperature;   a beverage container made from a metallic housing that extends downwardly and is integral to said metallic bottom portion of said beverage container, said metallic bottom portion being in surface contact with said underlying cold plate of said cold plate system,   wherein through thermal conductivity, a colder temperature of each cold plate transfers said colder temperature to said beverage container so as to maintain a beverage temperature at a desired beverage cold temperature.   
   
   
       8 . The beverage station according to  claim 7 , further comprising means for intermittently powering the cold plate system for desired time intervals. 
   
   
       9 . The beverage station according to  claim 7 , further comprising one or more designated locations on a housing of said cold plate system for providing indicia for identifying a content of each container disposed on an adjacent cold plate.