EP0614851A1 - Schnellkupplungskopf für einen ein unter Druck stehendes Getränk enthaltenden Behälter - Google Patents

Schnellkupplungskopf für einen ein unter Druck stehendes Getränk enthaltenden Behälter Download PDF

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EP0614851A1
EP0614851A1 EP93830091A EP93830091A EP0614851A1 EP 0614851 A1 EP0614851 A1 EP 0614851A1 EP 93830091 A EP93830091 A EP 93830091A EP 93830091 A EP93830091 A EP 93830091A EP 0614851 A1 EP0614851 A1 EP 0614851A1
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Goffredo Celli
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D1/00—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught
    • B67D1/08—Details
    • B67D1/0829—Keg connection means
    • B67D1/0831—Keg connection means combined with valves

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  • the invention relates to a rapid connection head for drinks containers, having a delivery line for beverages and a gas supply line, for drinks dispenser plants.
  • the said head is of the type comprising a stop-tap of the beverages located on a delivery line and having a mobile choke-valve in a complementary seating, as well as stop means for the entry of the gas coming from the supply line, and further having a lever with two manually-achieved stable positions freeable for the passage from one position to the other of the said stable positions.
  • connection heeds particularly used in drinks dispensing plants, which are structured in such a way as to permit the rapid substitution of the containers or kegs of beverages which become empty during the plant's use.
  • the said heads also permit the immediate reconnection of the delivery lines of the beverage and the supply line of the carbon dioxide which, normally, is added to the beverage to produce effervescence and the characteristic foamy head.
  • the activation of the lever of the above stop means has the aim of moving, internally to the head, a mobile element which permits of intercepting the gas inlet mouth before the detachment of the head from the drinks container, thus preventing the gas' exit into the atmosphere during all of the time necessary to effect the substitution of the drinks container.
  • the stop tap of the feed lines which is associated to the head, has the aim of avoiding the return of the drink which has already been sent to the delivery line, in order to avoid the emptying of the relative pipe.
  • the aim of the present invention is thus to eliminate the above-described drawbacks and solve the problem of making the closing operation of the stop tap automatic and synchronised with the activating of the lever which stops the supply of gas to the head.
  • the invention reaches the said aim by means of a head in which the stop-valve of the drink stop-tap is mechanically interconnected with the activating lever of the gas stop means by means of a command element and a transmission shaft connected to each other and interplaced between the valve and the lever in such a way that when the lever is activated, the valve automatically commutes in its seating, resulting in the lever position in which the stop means preventing the gas acceeding to the head corresponds to the stop position of the drink delivery line, and vice versa.
  • the invention substantially consists of a rapid connection head 5 for drinks containers 6, of delivery lines 4 and gas supply lines 14 in drinks dispensing plants.
  • the head 5 comprises a hollow body 51, associable to the container 6 of the drink by means of a conventional attachment system 52, equipped with a lateral connection 55 for the connection of the carbon dioxide supply line 14.
  • the head 5 envisages gas entry stop means 30 for the gas coming from the connection 55, activatable by means of a lever 8 having two stable positions, manually freeable for passage from one position to the other.
  • the said stop means 30 comprise a cylindrical body 56 which is slidable associated to the hollow body 51 of the head 5 and which is crossed, over its entire length, by an axial hole 57 along which the drink passes from the container 6 to the delivery line 4, under the pressure of the gas introduced into the container 6.
  • the cylindrical body 56 bears, at one of its heads 58 and turned towards the underlying drink container 6, a ring sealing gasket 59 for the drink and a ring gasket 60 for the gas.
  • the gas ring gasket 60 operating in combination with a shaped internal wall 61 of the hollow body 51, permits, after the translation of the body 56, of intercepting or not the gas entering into the container 6 through the lateral connection 55.
  • the lever 8 is fork-shaped, exhibiting tines 63 hinged to the hollow body 51 of the head 5 at a bilateral pivot 62.
  • the lever 8 is further hinged, at an end 81, eccentrically with respect to the pivot 62 to a curved connecting rod 64, which connecting rod 64 is in its turn hinged by means of an end 641 to the cylindrical body 56; so that by activating the lever 8 as shown in figure 2 the cylindrical body 56 is raised and viceversa, internally to the hollow body 51 and correspondingly to the intercepting of the gas by the interaction between the gasket 60 and the wall 61.
  • the head 58 of the cylindrical body 56 is inferiorly contrasted by a spring 65 which, meeting with the container in a known way, pushes the cylindrical body 56 constantly upwards.
  • the spring 65 interacting with the eccentric head 81 of the lever 8, enables the stable maintaining of the extreme lowered position of the lever 8 at which the gas can enter the container 6.
  • the above position is kept stable because the hinge 642 between the connecting rod 64 and the eccentric head 81 of the lever 8 is laterally displaced with respect to the overlying bilateral pivot 62.
  • the spring 65 ensures the raising of the cylindrical body 56 which determines the interruption of the access of the gas (figure 2) since the lever 8 is manually unblocked from its lower equilibrium position.
  • the head 5 further comprises, superiorly to the cylindrical body 56, a drinks stop-tap 3, located on the delivery line 4 and having a mobile valve 2 rotoidally associated to an extra seating 20 in two opposite operative positions in which the drink is stopped or allowed to pass freely through the cylindrical body 56.
  • a drinks stop-tap 3 located on the delivery line 4 and having a mobile valve 2 rotoidally associated to an extra seating 20 in two opposite operative positions in which the drink is stopped or allowed to pass freely through the cylindrical body 56.
  • the tap 3 is made in a single body with the cylindrical body 56.
  • the head 5 comprises a valve command element 16 and a transmission shaft 15 rotoidally interconnected, at opposite ends of the hinged ends 151, 152, to the command element 16 and to the lever 8. More specifically, as can be seen in figure 1, the command element 16 of the valve 2 exhibits a first end 161 which is hinged on the transmission shaft 15 and a second end 162 which is solidly interconnected to the valve 2.
  • the intercepting of the drink delivery line 4 is made to correspond with the raised position of the lever 8 (figure 2) in which the stop means 30 prevent the gas acceeding to the head 5; vice versa, the free passage of the drink through the tap 3 corresponds to the lowered position of the lever 8 (figure 1).
  • the head 5 envisages that the lever is pivoted to an end 62 of the body 51 of the head, further associating with the cylindrical body in such a way as to impress on it its characteristic movement with respect to the hollow body 51.
  • the command element 16 of the valve 2 is rotatably supported by the head 5 in such a way as to oscillate and it is further rotatably interconnected with the transmission shaft 15 at a first hinged end 161. It further exhibits, at a second, opposite end 162, a rack 18 meshing with a cogged wheel 19, solid to the valve 2, in such a way as to correlate the rotation of the valve 2 with respect to its seating 20 with the movement transmitted to the lever 8.
  • the lever 8 is equipped with an arrest element 66 in a stable position having a cavity 67 in which a pin 68 is insertable, elastically checked and manually freeable each time that the position of the lever 8 is to be changed.
  • a still further embodiment of the head 8 can be seen, applicable in this case to a tap 3 having a valve 2 which is slidably associated to its complementary seating 20.
  • the command element 16 is elastically checked internally to the seating 20 of the tap 3, in such a way as to have a single stable rest position to which the open tap 3 position is made to correspond.
  • the transmission shaft 15 is rigidly interconnected with the lever 8 at its second end 152, and the is associable to the command element 16, by means of its opposite first end 151. From a functional point of view, on the activation of the lever 8, when the cylindrical body 56 is raised with respect to the hollow body of the head 5, the valve 2 of the tap 3 is made to advance along its seating 20, determining the intercepting of the drink while the gas flow to the head 5 is interrupted.

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Cited By (2)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0745556A1 (de) * 1995-05-31 1996-12-04 CELLI S.p.A. Schnellkupplungskopf für Druckbehälter in einer Getränkezapfanlage
WO2008101503A2 (en) 2007-02-21 2008-08-28 Micro-Matic A/S Keg coupling

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FR2105620A5 (en) * 1970-09-15 1972-04-28 Geimdor Control valves - for vapours in alcohol still
NL7806761A (en) * 1978-06-22 1979-12-28 Johannes De Vos Pipe coupling unit for beer barrel - has valve in hollow plunger opened on lever actuation

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2105620A5 (en) * 1970-09-15 1972-04-28 Geimdor Control valves - for vapours in alcohol still
NL7806761A (en) * 1978-06-22 1979-12-28 Johannes De Vos Pipe coupling unit for beer barrel - has valve in hollow plunger opened on lever actuation

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0745556A1 (de) * 1995-05-31 1996-12-04 CELLI S.p.A. Schnellkupplungskopf für Druckbehälter in einer Getränkezapfanlage
US5690136A (en) * 1995-05-31 1997-11-25 Celli, S.P.A. Device for rapid connecting-up of pressurized containers in drinks dispenser plants
WO2008101503A2 (en) 2007-02-21 2008-08-28 Micro-Matic A/S Keg coupling
WO2008101503A3 (en) * 2007-02-21 2008-12-18 Micro Matic As Keg coupling

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