EP2060497B1 - Barrel - Google Patents

Abstract

The barrel has a body (10) with a lid (30) on one end and a bottom (32) on the other. The body is of a rounded shape, with a flat spot (34) on it for resting stably on a flat surface. The cross section is basically circular apart from the flat-spot region, which extends longitudinally along the body over a bulging region (12) of it.

Description

The invention relates to a barrel according to the preamble of claim 1.

Such barrels can be made of either plastic or sheet metal and are preferably used for storage of liquids, such as beverages.

For example, from the DE 196 41 172 A1 a barrel is known, which has a lid and at the end of the fuselage on the one hand a lid and on the other hand a bottom, and also provided in the barrel opening, in which a closure unit is inserted with a closure element in the form of a screwed lid, a permanently fixed insert ring has, in this document neither a dispensing device is disclosed, nor the use of the opening for receiving a dispensing device.

The invention is based on this prior art, the task of being able to tap the liquid in a suitable manner.

This object is achieved in a barrel of the type described above according to the invention in that the closure unit has a holding part for fixing a dispensing device on the insert ring.

In order to keep the interior of the barrel in the original state of the barrel, in which this is to be transported to the consumer, and in particular to prevent the dispensing device is automatically moved out through the opening from the interior and protrudes beyond the opening of the lid, is at a preferred embodiment provided that in the opening a closure unit is used.

The closure unit according to the invention has a permanently fixed at the edge of the opening insert ring.

Under a permanent fixation of the insert ring is to be understood that the insert ring is so securely fixed to the opening that it remains fixed in the opening under normal action on the closure unit, preferably only by destroying the shape of the insert ring or the lid of the opening can be removed.

Usually, a permanent fixation of the insert ring takes place at the edge of the opening to the effect that the opening of the lid, in particular the edge thereof, at least partially digs into the material of the insert ring.

For closing the insert ring is preferably provided that a closure element is held on the insert ring.

The closure element could for example be releasably fixed to the insert ring.

However, in order not to have to produce two parts for the closure element and the insert ring, which subsequently must be connected together or fixed relative to each other, it is preferably provided that the closure element is connected in a manufacturing state via a tear-off with the insert ring.

This makes it possible to produce closure element and insert ring as a single part and to mount as such in the opening of the lid. This is a significant advantage in terms of cost-effective production and installation of a closure unit.

In order to be able to document for the consumer that the keg is in the original state, that is to say that no liquid has yet been taken from it, it is preferably provided that the closure element is connected to the insert ring in an original state via a tear-off region.

With this solution, it is possible to safely indicate to the consumer that the closure element has not yet been removed from the insert ring and thus the contents of the barrel is also in the original filled state.

In order to reseal the opening in the barrel after loosening the tear-off region and thus separating the closure element from the insert ring, it is preferably provided that the closure element can be fixed on the insert ring after release of the tear-off region.

The detachment of the tear-off region could take place completely independently of the fixing of the closure element to the insert ring.

However, a particularly favorable solution provides that the closure element can be inserted by a movement for releasing the tear-off in the insert ring.

That is, in this solution, it is possible to simultaneously use the release of the tear-off portion to insert the closure member into the insert ring.

Such a solution makes it possible, for example, to automatically perform the release of the closure element from the insert ring by releasing the tear-off region and inserting the closure element into the insert ring.

A fixation of the closure element can be done in a variety of ways by a fixing.

Conveniently, the closure element is provided with a fixing element which can be fixed on the insert ring in order to be able to fix or fix the closure element on the insert ring in a simple manner.

It is conceivable, for example, to arrange the fixing element in such a way that it is arranged on a side of the closure element facing the tear-off region.

Another favorable solution provides that the closure element on a side opposite the tear-off region has the fixing element, which can be fixed to the insert ring.

The fixing element can be formed in various ways. An advantageous solution provides that the fixing element is a fixing ring, which can be inserted into a passage opening of the insert ring and fixed in this.

In addition, the fixation of the fixing on the insert ring can be done in a variety of ways.

For example, a frictional or frictional fixation is conceivable.

A particularly advantageous solution provides that the fixing element can be fixed by a latching connection on the insert ring.

The inventive fixation of the dispensing device on the insert ring after pulling the dispensing device through the insert ring by means of the holding part represents a particularly favorable solution for fixing the dispensing device on the insert ring.

The holding part could, for example, also be connected to the insert ring separately via a tear-off element.

An advantageous solution provides that the closure element carries the holding part.

A further advantageous solution provides that the closure element comprises a holding part, that is, that the holding part is part of the closure element and thus integrated in this.

It is particularly expedient in this case if the holding part of the closure element can be inserted as such after loosening a closure body part, that is to say that the holding part and the closure body part form at least a part of the closure element, if not the entire closure element.

For example, it is provided that the closure body part is connected by a tear-off with the holding part, so that the closure body part can be solved in a simple manner by the holding part to use the holding part as such.

An expedient embodiment provides here that a release of the closure body part releases a free space of the holding part for receiving the dispensing device.

This means that the closure body part closes in the state connected to the holding part, the free space of the holding part and thus holding part and closure body part either partially or as a whole can form the closure element.

Appropriately, in this case the free space is designed as an approximately U-like or keyhole-like cutout in the holding part, in which then the dispensing device, for example with a collar, can be used.

With regard to the design of the holding part a variety of solutions are conceivable.

An advantageous solution provides that the holding part on the dispensing device is clip-like fixable.

For example, it is provided for this purpose that the holding part engages in a receptacle on a collar of the dispensing device.

In order to fix the dispensing device in its dispensing position with the holding part, it is preferably provided that the holding part is supported on the insert part, so that it is prevented by the holding part that the dispensing device can be moved through the insert part back into the interior of the barrel.

Such support of the dispensing device on the insert part can be done by a mere application of the holding part on the insert.

Alternatively, it is also advantageous if the holding part is fixable on the insert part, for example, characterized in that the holding part and the insert part can be connected to one another by a latching connection.

With regard to the design of the holding part a variety of ways are conceivable.

In order to be able to fix the holding part to the dispensing device, it is preferably provided that the holding part has two holding elements which receive the dispensing device between them.

An exemplary solution provides that the holding part has two fork-shaped holding fingers, which can be brought into engagement with the receptacle in the collar of the dispensing device.

In order to remove the liquid, in particular the beverage, in a simple manner from the barrel, the opening for a dispensing device is provided in the features described above in the barrel.

For example, the barrel according to the invention serves to form a housing for a liquid bag with a dispensing device, wherein the dispensing device of the liquid bag can be guided out of the barrel through the opening in the lid.

Alternatively, it is conceivable to provide the opening in the flattening in the fuselage of the barrel, so that when using a liquid bag with a dispensing device, the dispensing device can be led out of the barrel through the opening in the barrel of the barrel.

In barrels there is also the problem of giving them an attractive appearance and on the other hand to be able to place them safely on a supporting surface during emptying.

This problem is solved in a barrel of the type described above in that the hull has a round shape and that the round shape is provided with a flattening.

The advantage of the solution is the fact that on the one hand the hull of the barrel has an aesthetically pleasing shape, in particular in the form of a well-known beverage keg, but on the other hand also due to the flattening can be placed without rolling on a support surface and thus is stable.

In particular, it is provided that the round shape has a substantially circular cross-sectional shape except for the region of the flattening, so that, except for the flattening itself, the fuselage corresponds to the classic shape of a barrel.

With regard to the extent of the flattening, no further details have been given so far. Thus, the flattening can extend over the entire longitudinal axis of the barrel.

An aesthetically pleasing form provides that the hull is bulbous in the direction of a longitudinal axis.

It is particularly advantageous if the flattening extends in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the barrel over a bulbous region of the fuselage.

Even more advantageously, the flattening can be arranged when the flattening extends as far as conical regions of the fuselage extending to the respective cover or floor.

In order to give the lid and / or the floor a similar appearance to a wooden barrel, it is provided as an alternative or in addition to the features described above, that the lid and / or the bottom of a lid mirror or floor mirror and a cover mirror or floor mirror from the fuselage away bulging ring area have.

A particularly advantageous solution provides that the annular region engages over a retaining element of the fuselage and thus by the formation of the annular region on the lid or bottom is possible to give the barrel according to the invention a visually pleasing appearance, in particular an appearance similar to that of a barrique barrel ,

Preferably, the retaining element in various ways with the ring area is effective.

One possibility provides that the annular region cooperates with an outer wall with the retaining element.

Another advantageous solution provides that the annular region cooperates with an inner wall with the retaining element.

In order to be able to fix such a cover or base provided with an annular region in a simple manner to the hull, it is preferably provided that the annular region with an outer wall extends in the direction of the fuselage and is held on the hull via this outer wall.

The advantage of this solution is to be seen in the fact that there is the possibility to fix the lid and / or the bottom of the hull in a simple manner.

Such a fixation is particularly favorable when both the hull and the lid and / or the bottom are made of sheet metal.

Furthermore, it is provided, for example, that the annular region has a curl, which can be latched into a fuselage bead. Such a solution has the advantage that in a simple manner, both the lid and the floor can be attached to the hull.

Preferably, the hull bead is formed by a retracted end portion of the hull.

Particularly simple, especially when using a hull made of sheet metal, the hull bead can be realized when the hull bead is limited to the lid and bottom through an end-rolled area.

As an alternative to fixing the annular region to an outer wall on the fuselage, a further advantageous solution provides that the annular region can be fixed to the fuselage with an inner wall.

Preferably, it is provided that the annular region can be fixed to the inner wall on a clamping collar of the fuselage.

Such a clamping collar of the fuselage is formed, for example, by a retracted region of the respective end region of the fuselage.

Preferably, such a clamping collar has an approximately cylindrical to a longitudinal axis of the fuselage extending clamping wall.

Moreover, the invention relates to a closure unit for an opening of a barrel, which is formed according to one or more of the preceding features.

Further features and advantages of the present invention are the subject of the following description and the drawings of an embodiment.

Fig. 1

eine Seitenansicht eines ersten Ausführungsbeispiels eines erfindungsgemäßen Fasses, aufgelegt auf eine Auflage- fläche;

Fig. 2

eine Ansicht des erfindungsgemäßen Fasses in Richtung des Pfeils A in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3

einen vergrößerten Schnitt durch einen Bereich B in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4

einen vergrößerten Schnitt durch einen Bereich C in Fig. 1;

Fig. 5

einen Schnitt durch einen deckelseitigen Bereich des Fasses gemäß Fig. 1 in vergrößerter Darstellung;

Fig. 6

einen vergrößerten Schnitt durch einen Bereich D in Fig. 5;

Fig. 7

einen Schnitt ähnlich Fig. 5 durch den Deckel bei in Zapf- stellung gehaltener Zapfeinrichtung;

Fig. 8

eine Ansicht von Verschlusselement und Halteteil mit Blick in Richtung E in Fig. 7;

Fig. 9

eine Ansicht von Verschlussteil und Halteteil ähnlich Fig. 8 mit Blickrichtung F in Fig. 7;

Fig. 10

einen Schnitt ähnlich Fig. 5 mit einem durch ein erfindungs- gemäßes Verschlusselement verschlossenen Einsatzring;

Fig. 11

eine perspektivische Ansicht eines zweiten Ausführungs- beispiels eines erfindungsgemäßen Fasses;

Fig. 12

eine Ansicht eines Deckels ähnlich Fig. 5 bei einem dritten Ausführungsbeispiel eines erfindungsgemäßen Fasses, wobei eine Verschlusseinheit in einem ersten Schritt in eine Öff- nung des Deckels eingesetzt ist;

Fig. 13

eine Darstellung ähnlich Fig. 12, wobei ein Verschluss- element der Verschlusseinheit in einen Einsatzring derselben eingedrückt ist;

Fig. 14

eine Draufsicht in Richtung des Pfeils G in Fig. 13;

Fig. 15

eine Ansicht ähnlich Fig. 13 bei als Halteteil eingesetztem Verschlusselement und dadurch erfolgendem Fixieren einer Zapfeinrichtung durch das Halteteil an dem Deckel 30;

Fig. 16

eine teilweise Darstellung eines Schnitts ähnlich Fig. 1 durch ein viertes Ausführungsbeispiel eines erfindungsgemäßen Fasses und

Fig. 17

einen Schnitt ähnlich Fig. 3 durch das vierte Ausführungs- beispiel des erfindungsgemäßen Fasses.

In the drawing show:

Fig. 1

a side view of a first embodiment of a barrel according to the invention, placed on a support surface;

Fig. 2

a view of the barrel according to the invention in the direction of arrow A in Fig. 1 ;

Fig. 3

an enlarged section through a region B in Fig. 1 ;

Fig. 4

an enlarged section through a region C in Fig. 1 ;

Fig. 5

a section through a lid-side portion of the barrel according to Fig. 1 in an enlarged view;

Fig. 6

an enlarged section through a region D in Fig. 5 ;

Fig. 7

similar to a cut Fig. 5 through the lid with the dispensing device held in tapping position;

Fig. 8

a view of closure element and holding part with a view towards E in Fig. 7 ;

Fig. 9

similar to a view of closure part and holding part Fig. 8 with view F in Fig. 7 ;

Fig. 10

similar to a cut Fig. 5 with an insert ring closed by a closure element according to the invention;

Fig. 11

a perspective view of a second embodiment of a barrel according to the invention;

Fig. 12

a view of a lid similar Fig. 5 in a third embodiment of a barrel according to the invention, wherein a closure unit is inserted in an opening of the lid in a first step;

Fig. 13

a representation similar Fig. 12 wherein a closure element of the closure unit is pressed into an insert ring thereof;

Fig. 14

a plan view in the direction of arrow G in Fig. 13 ;

Fig. 15

a view similar Fig. 13 when used as a holding part closure element and thereby successful fixing a dispensing device by the holding part on the lid 30;

Fig. 16

a partial representation of a section similar Fig. 1 by a fourth embodiment of a barrel according to the invention and

Fig. 17

similar to a cut Fig. 3 by the fourth embodiment of the barrel according to the invention.

An in Fig. 1 Illustrated embodiment of a beverage drum made of sheet metal according to the invention comprises a designated as a whole with 10 fuselage having a central bulbous region 12 and each on both sides of the bulbous region 12 conical regions 14 and 16, so that the conical regions 14, 16 on their the bulbous region 12th facing sides have a larger diameter than on their side facing away from the bulbous region 12 and in particular in the region of the bulbous region 12 opposite sides in end regions 24, 26 merge, where a cover 28 and a bottom 32 is held.

The trunk 10 has, as in Fig. 1 and 2 illustrated, both in the bulbous region 12 and in the conical regions 14 and 16 to a flat 34 a substantially circular cross-section, wherein the flattening 34 serves to be able to stably place the beverage keg on a support surface 36, wherein a longitudinal axis 38 of the beverage keg approximately parallel to the support surface 36 extends.

The flattening 34 extends substantially around the bulbous region 12 but also beyond it to the conical regions 14 and 16, preferably over approximately half the extent of the conical regions 14 and 16 towards the end regions 24 and 26.

As in Fig. 1 and 3 illustrated, the cover 30 comprises a cover mirror 40, to which radially outwardly adjoins a side facing the trunk 10 side of the lid mirror 40 via this uplifting annular region 42, which following the lid mirror 40 has a conical inner wall 44 and a the inner wall 44 has adjoining end wall 46, which then in turn merges into a conically widening towards the fuselage 10 outer wall 48. The outer wall 48 extends beyond the lid mirror in the direction of the fuselage 10 and has a radially inner curl 50, which engages in a bead 52 of the end region 24.

In this case, the bead 52 of the end region 24 is formed, for example, by a radially inwardly drawn end wall 54 of the end region 24, in front of which there is a rolled-over region 56 at a distance, so that the curl 50 rests on the end wall 54 on the one hand and on the rolled-up region on the other hand the bead 52 formed by both is fixed to the end region 24 of the hull 10.

The outer wall 48, which widens conically starting from the end wall 46 of the cover 30 in the direction of the fuselage 10, has such a radial elasticity in the region of the curl 50 that the curl 50 projects on a side of the rolled-over region 56 facing away from the end wall 54 put on and deform by pressure on the lid 30 so radially that the Anrollung 50 over the rolled-over region 56 away in the bead 52 is movable and locked there.

As in Fig. 1 and 4 1, the floor is also provided with a floor mirror 60, which is surrounded radially in the same way as in the cover 30 by a ring area 62 which rises above the floor mirror 60 opposite the fuselage 10 and following the floor level 60 has an inner wall 64 which merges into an end wall 66 and this end wall 66 in turn merges into an outer wall 68, which extends in a conically widening over the floor mirror 60 out in the direction of the end portion 26 and also in turn carries a Anrollung 70 which in a Beading 72 of the end portion 26 engages, which in turn lies between an end wall 74 of the end portion 26 and a rolled-over portion 76 of the end portion 26.

Also, the bottom 32 is latched to the hull 10 by the curl 70 engaging the bead 72 of the end portion 26, in which case, for example, the rolled portion 76 has a larger cross section, so that a greater elastic deformation of the outer wall 68 is required to move the Anrollung70 over the rolled portion 76 away in the bead 72 to fix the bottom 32, so that the fixation of the bottom 32 on the hull 10 is solvable with greater force than the fixation of the lid 30 on the hull 10th

Both in the case of the cover 30 and in the case of the bottom 32, the ring 42 or 62 overlaps the respective bead 52 or 72 and thus makes the respective end region 24 or 26 of the hull 10 invisible.

As in Fig. 5 2, the cover 30 in the cover mirror 40 is provided with an opening 80 which lies on a side facing the flattening 34 near the annular region 42.

The opening 80 serves to pass through this a dispensing device 82 which is arranged in an interior 84 of the drinks barrel, and serves to remove a beverage from a beverage bag or beverage bag 86, wherein the beverage bag 86 is formed as a foil bag in the filled Condition the inner space 84 of the beverage keg substantially fills and upon removal of beverage from the beverage bag 86 through the dispensing device 82 as it is removed in the drink collapses and thus increasingly fill the interior 84, so that the possibility exists, the drink to remove it from the beverage bag 86 without venting and thereby increase the shelf life of the beverage in the beverage bag 86 after a partial emptying.

For this purpose, it is necessary that air can enter from the outside in the interior 84 of the beverage keg, either between the lid 30 and the hull 10 in the region of the bead 52 or in the region of the passage of the tapping device 82 through the opening 80.

In the original condition of the beverage barrel is, as in Fig. 6 illustrated, the opening 80 closed by a closure unit 90 inserted into this, which has a locked in the opening insert ring 92 and a held on the insert ring closure member 94.

As in Fig. 6 shown enlarged, the insert ring 92 comprises a support flange 98 which can be placed on an outer side of the lid 40, and an integrally formed on the support flange 98 annular body 100 which engages in the opening 80 and carries a detent 102 which the opening 80 on her engages behind the interior 84 side facing.

In the original state of the closure unit 90, the closure element 94 is integrally connected with the insert ring 92, specifically via a tear-off region 103, which is designed as a wall with a thinned wall thickness between the insert ring 92 and the closure element 94.

Furthermore, the closure element 94 comprises a closure body 104 and a latching ring 106 surrounding the closure body 104, wherein the latching ring 106 has a jacket surface 108 which substantially coincides with an inner shell surface 112 of a passage opening 110 of the ring body 100, so that the latching ring 106 with the closure body 104 can be inserted under application of the lateral surface 108 on the inner circumferential surface 112 in the passage opening 110.

In the original state of the closure unit 90, however, the locking ring 106 is located on a side opposite the tear-off region 104 of a flange 114, which extends radially beyond the locking ring 106 addition.

On the flange body 114, a holding part designated as a whole by 120 is furthermore arranged, which in the original state of the closure unit 90 laterally overlaps the lid 80 with the opening 80.

For passing the dispensing device 82 through the passage opening 110 of the closure unit 90, the closure element 94 and the holding part 120 connected thereto are released from the insert ring 92 by manual action of force on the latter, that the closure element 94 is separated from the insert ring 92 in the tear-off region 103 and thus the Closure element 94 and the holding part 120 is a separate, separate from the insert ring 92 part.

It is now possible to pull the dispensing device 82 out of the inner space 84 through the through opening 110 in such a way that the dispensing device 82 stands in front of the lid mirror 40 of the lid on a side facing away from the inner space 84 and thereby has a collar 122 extending through the through opening 110. which is provided with a front collar flange 124 and a rear collar flange 126, between which a against the collar flanges 124 and 126 radially zurücksetztter collar collar portion 128 is located so that there is a receptacle 130 for the holding member 120.

Furthermore, the collar 122 is still provided with a support flange 140 which can be applied to the ring body 100.

The fixation of the dispensing device 82 relative to the insert ring 92 now takes place, as in Fig. 7 represented by the holding part 120th

The holding part 120 has for this purpose, as in Fig. 8 and 9 illustrated, two fork-shaped arranged as a holding finger fork elements 132 and 134th which extend from a base 136, wherein the base 136 is preferably formed integrally with the flange body 114.

The fork fingers 132 and 134 enclose a fork recess 138, which is adapted in diameter to the collar shroud 128, the fork recess 138 being able to extend the collar shroud 128 over a circumferential range of more than 180 due to end portions 142 and 144 being extended towards each other To encompass so that thereby already the fork fingers 132 and 134 in the receptacle 130 to the collar 128 are fixed and the fork elements 132 and 134 due to their elasticity relative to each other on the collar 128 can be plugged.

The fork elements 132 and 134 carry on the one hand, as in Fig. 8 shown, a U-shaped rear support rib 146, which, as in Fig. 6 represented, on the rear collar flange 126 can be applied, and front support ribs 148, 150, which extend parallel to a Aufsteckrichtung 152 and on the front collar flange 124 can be applied. The front support ribs 148, 150 are provided with a curved contour 154, which allows the support ribs 146, 148 and 150 initially force-free between the front collar flange 124 and the rear collar flange 126 and then kraftbeaufschlagt by further insertion between the collar flanges 124 and 126 to ensure a play-free fit of the holding member 120 between the collar flanges 124 and 126.

In addition, when mounted on the collar 122 holding part 120 of the support flange 140 is applied to the annular body 100 and leads to an additional support of the collar 122, wherein the holding part 120 also still at least partially rests on the abutment flange 98 and thus prevents an inward movement of the collar 122 into the interior 84 of the beverage keg.

If after partial or complete emptying of the beverage bag 86, the dispensing device 82 is pushed back into the interior 84 and the through-opening 110 are closed, the closure element 94 with the locking ring 106 in the through hole 110 - as already described - can be used, wherein the lateral surface 108 of Rastrings 106 rests against the inner circumferential surface 112 of the through hole 110 and thus fixes the closure body 104 together with the locking ring 106.

Preferably, as in Fig. 5 . 6 and 10 illustrated, the inner circumferential surface 112 in the direction of the interior 84 is conically widening formed and also the lateral surface 108 also formed as flared from the flange 114 away surface, so that, as in Fig. 10 shown, when inserting the locking ring 106 in the ring body 100 on the one hand a frictional, on the other hand due to the conicity of the lateral surface 108 and the inner circumferential surface 112 latching locking of the locking ring 106 with the closure body 104 and thus the closure member 94 can be securely held in the insert ring 92 to to close the passage opening 110.

In a second embodiment of a barrel according to the invention, in particular a beverage keg, the hull 10 'is designed as a cylindrical body to its longitudinal axis 38, but provided with a flattening 34', which extends substantially over the extension of the hull 10 'in the direction of the longitudinal axis 38th extends.

Further, the hull is provided with a lid 30 'and a bottom 32', wherein the lid 30 'and the bottom 32' in the same manner as in the first embodiment may be connected to the hull 10 'or made of other material, for example made of plastic and otherwise fixed to the hull.

Moreover, it is conceivable in this embodiment that the flattening 34 'does not extend completely to the respective end region 24', or 26 'of the hull 10', so that, for example, the respective end region 24 'or 26' of the hull 10 'can still be provided with a circular axis to the longitudinal axis 38 cross-section.

Moreover, in this embodiment, in the region of the flattening 34 ', for example, near the lid 30', the opening 80 'is provided for performing the dispensing device 82, wherein the opening 80' with a closure unit 90 is closed, which is identical to the first Embodiment, so that in this regard is made in full content to the comments on the first embodiment.

Furthermore, the lid 30 'is preferably detachably connected to the fuselage 10', so that by removing the lid 30 ', the beverage sack 26 with the dispensing device 82 can be introduced into the interior 84 of the beverage keg and then the interior space 84 can be closed, the lid 30 'is so firmly connected to the hull 10' is that when you set up the beverage keg with the lid 30 'on a support surface of the lid 30' by the weight of the beverage bag 86 does not dissolve from the hull 10 '.

Incidentally, those parts of the second embodiment which are identical to those of the first embodiment are provided with the same reference numerals, so that with respect to the description of the same fully incorporated by reference to the comments on the first embodiment.

In a third embodiment of a barrel according to the invention, as in FIG. 12 illustrated, the opening 80 'formed enlarged, for example, with a diameter which is more than a third, preferably more than half a diameter of the lid mirror 40.

Inserted into the opening 80 'is a closure unit as a whole designated by 90' according to the third exemplary embodiment, which has an insert ring 92 which is formed in the same way as in the preceding embodiments.

In the insert ring 92 is a as a whole with 94 'designated closure element can be used, which is formed in the manufacturing state of the closure unit 90' so that it is connected via a tear-off 160 with the insert ring 92, namely the tear region 160 between the ring body 100th and the locking ring 106 of the closure element 94 'formed, wherein the locking ring 106 in the same manner as described in the first embodiment, in the through hole 110 of the insert ring 92 is pressed.

In addition, the latching ring 106 engages with its lateral surface 108 with the inner circumferential surface 112 of the passage opening 110 a latching connection, as likewise described in detail in connection with the first exemplary embodiment.

The tear-off region 160 is designed such that in the production state, a side of the latching ring 106 opposite the closure body 104 'is connected to a side of the ring body 100 facing the support flange 98.

Preferably, the tear-off region 160 is dimensioned such that upon insertion of the closure unit 90 'into the opening 80', first the insert ring 92 can be pressed into the opening 80 'and then, for example by pressure on the closure element 94' and after the insert ring 92 has been fixed in that its bearing flange 98 rests laterally over the opening 80 'on the cover mirror 40, further pressure on the closure element 94 causes its locking ring 106 to latch in the passage opening 110 of the insert ring 92, after releasing the closure element in the tear-off region 160 94 'from the insert ring 92 has taken place.

With it sits, as in FIG. 13 illustrated, the closure element 94 'in the insert ring 92 by locking the locking ring 106 with the through hole 110th

In this position, the closure unit 90 'serves to close the opening 80', such as in FIG FIG. 14 shown.

In order now to create the possibility for a user of the barrel according to the invention to extract the dispensing device 82 of the beverage bag 86 from the interior 84 of the barrel, and to fix it by the closure unit 90 ', the closure element 94' comprises, as in FIG. 14 a holding part 120 ', which is part of the closure unit 94', wherein the base 136 'is formed by a part of the closure body 104', while another part of the closure body 104 'closes the fork recess 138' of the holding part 120 'as the closure body part 162 wherein the closure body part 162 is connected to the holding part 120 'via a tear-off region 164.

Preferably, the closure body part 162 is formed so that this has a thinned edge region 166, which is connected to an edge region 168 of the holding part 120 'delimiting the fork recess 138'.

The edge region 168 is formed, for example, by the base 136 'of the holding part 120'. Thus, in this embodiment, the holding part 120 'on both sides of the Gabelausnehmung 138' extending fork elements 132 'and 134', wherein the fork elements in the same manner as in the first embodiment in the direction towards each other widened end portions 142, 144, to a fixation of Holding parts 120 'on the collar 128 to reach.

In the same way as in the first embodiment, the holding part 120 'is provided with an approximately U-shaped front support rib 148' and, as already in FIGS. 12 and 13 shown, with a likewise inverted U-shaped formed rear support rib 146 ', which is also approximately U-shaped.

In contrast to the first embodiment, the front support rib 148 'has no curved contour, but in the same way as the rear support rib 146' has a roughly rectilinear supporting edge, which, as in FIG. 15 shown, abut the front collar flange 124 and rear collar flange 126 and thereby engage in the receptacle 130 on the collar 122 in order to fix the dispensing device 82.

Preferably, a mounting of the dispensing device 82 takes place in that when the closure element 94 'is seated on the insert ring 92, the closure body part 162 is pressed in the direction of the interior 84 and thus offers the possibility of the finger being inserted into the fork recess 138', which is thereby exposed to engage and release the closure element 94 'from its engagement with the insert ring 92.

Due to the large diameter of the passage opening 110, it is thus possible to grasp the dispensing device 82, which is located in the interior 84 and is connected to the drinks bag 86, and to pull it out through the passage opening 110 of the insert ring 92. Thereafter, a plugging of the closure member 94 'formed holding part 120' with its fork elements 132 ', 134' on the collar 122, wherein the fork elements 132 'and 134' engage in the receptacle 130 between the collar flanges 124 and 126 and also the end portions 142 and 144 lead to a latch-like fixation of the holding part 120 'on the collar 122. As a result, the support ribs 146 'and 148' are inserted between the collar flanges 124 and 126 and are supported thereon.

The now connected to the holding part 120 'dispensing device 82 can then be fixed by locking the locking ring 106 with the ring body 100 of the insert ring 92 turn the insert ring 92 and thereby simultaneously fixation of the dispensing device 82 relative to the insert ring 92 and thus also relative to the lid 30th ,

Thus, by pressing the dispensing device 82, the beverage can be taken out of the beverage bag 86 in the same way as described in detail in connection with the first embodiment.

Incidentally, the third embodiment is formed in the same manner as the first embodiment, so that the same reference numerals are used for the same parts, so that in this respect the comments on the first embodiment can be fully incorporated by reference.

In a fourth embodiment, shown in FIG Fig. 16 and Fig. 17 the end region 24 "of the fuselage 10 'is provided with a clamping collar 250 which, starting from the conical wall region 14, has a retracted end wall 254 which merges into an approximately cylindrically shaped clamping wall 252, the clamping wall 252 having a terminal curl 256 at the end.

The cover 30 is similar to the cover of the preceding embodiments formed, which deviating from the preceding embodiments, the rising above the cover mirror 40 inner wall 44 "not tapered, but substantially cylindrical to the longitudinal axis 38, so that the inner wall 44" clamped to the clamping wall 252 may be present.

The end wall 46 adjoining the inner wall 44 "and the outer wall 48 are shaped in the same way as in the first exemplary embodiment, and the curl 50 can be applied to the inwardly drawn end wall 254, whereby no fixation takes place by the curl 50 Fixing of the lid 30 "takes place on the clamping wall on the cylindrical clamping wall 252 adjacent inner wall 44" of the lid 30 ".

Such a clamping of the lid 30 'on the clamping collar 250 has the advantage that so that the lid 30 "is easier to install and above all is easy to remove and thus the possible uses of the beverage keg according to the invention can be improved.

In particular, also in this embodiment, the annular portion 42 is formed so that it overlaps the clamping collar 250 and can be invisible.

With regard to the design of the closure unit, it is possible to provide either a closure unit 90 according to the first embodiment or a closure unit 90 'according to the third embodiment.

With regard to the other features of the fourth embodiment, the same reference numerals are used in the parts which are identical to those of the preceding embodiments, so that with respect to the description of the same fully incorporated by reference to the embodiments of these embodiments.

Claims (13)

1. Barrel, in particular beverage barrel, comprising a body (10) and, at the end of the body (10), a lid (30) on one end and a base (32) on the other, and an opening (80) provided in the barrel to receive a dispensing device (82), in which opening a closure unit (90) with a closure element (94) is inserted, said closure unit having an insertion ring (92) permanently fixed on the opening (80), characterised in that the closure unit (90) has a holding part (120) to fix a dispensing device (82) on the insertion ring (92).
2. Barrel according to claim 1, characterised in that a closure element (94) of the closure unit (90) is held on the insertion ring (92).
3. Barrel according to claim 2, characterised in that the closure element (94), in an original state, is connected to the insertion ring (92) by a tear-off region (103, 160).
4. Barrel according to claim 2 or 3, characterised in that the closure element (94, 94') has a fixing element (106) which is fixable on the insertion ring (92).
5. Barrel according to claim 4, characterised in that the fixing element is configured as a fixing ring (106) which is insertable in a through-opening (110) of the insertion ring (92) and is fixable therein.
6. Barrel according to claim 4 or 5, characterised in that the fixing element (106) is fixable by a latching connection on the insertion ring (92).
7. Barrel according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the closure element (94) carries the holding part (120).
8. Barrel according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that it forms a housing for a liquid bag (86) with the dispensing device (82) and in that the dispensing device (82) of the liquid bag (86) can be guided out of the barrel through the opening (80).
9. Barrel according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the body (10) has a round shape and in that the round shape is provided with a flattened area (34).
10. Barrel according to claim 9, characterised in that the rounded shape has a substantially circular cross sectional shape except for the region of the flattened area (34).
11. Barrel according to claim 9 or 10, characterised in that the flattened area (34) extends over a rounded region (12) of the body (10) in the direction of a longitudinal axis (58) of the barrel.
12. Barrel according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the lid (30) and/or the base (32) have a lid panel (40) and a base panel (60) respectively and a peripheral annular region (42, 62) protruding away from the body (10) beyond the lid panel (40) or the base panel (60).
13. Barrel according to claim 12, characterised in that the respective annular region (42, 62) engages over a holding element (52, 72, 250) of the body (10).

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