before being dispensed the concentrate hopper 42 has a cylindrical upper section 46 and a lower conical section 48 that slants downwardly and inwardly to a centrally located downwardly extending hollow cylindrical tube connector 52 with a concentrate drain hole 50 one end of a flexible teflon u00ae tube 54 or the like schematically illustrated by a single line is connected to the concentrate tube connector 52 the flexible concentrate tube 54 is directly connected at its opposite end to an inlet connector 56 of a concentrate solenoid controlled valve 58 best seen in fig5 and 6 the outlet of the solenoid controlled valve is located within a mixing chamber 74 as seen in fig3 a water line 60 schematically illustrated by a single line is directly connected at an inlet 62 to a public water supply through a suitable flexible hose not shown the inlet 62 in turn is connected to an inlet of a solenoid controlled water inlet valve 64 the outlet of the solenoid controlled water inlet valve 64 in turn is connected in series with both a pressure regulator 66 and a flow regulator 68 the output of the flow regulator 68 is connected directly to a water inlet connector 70 via an elongate flexible.