EP0662069B1 - Anstechvorrichtung für einen keg-zapfer - Google Patents

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EP0662069B1
EP0662069B1 EP93920751A EP93920751A EP0662069B1 EP 0662069 B1 EP0662069 B1 EP 0662069B1 EP 93920751 A EP93920751 A EP 93920751A EP 93920751 A EP93920751 A EP 93920751A EP 0662069 B1 EP0662069 B1 EP 0662069B1
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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
    • 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
    • B67D1/0832—Keg connection means combined with valves with two valves disposed concentrically
    • 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
    • B67D1/0841—Details
    • B67D1/0848—Locking means
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/2931—Diverse fluid containing pressure systems
    • Y10T137/3115—Gas pressure storage over or displacement of liquid
    • Y10T137/3127—With gas maintenance or application
    • Y10T137/314—Unitary mounting for gas pressure inlet and liquid outlet
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00—Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/598—With repair, tapping, assembly, or disassembly means
    • Y10T137/612—Tapping a pipe, keg, or apertured tank under pressure
    • Y10T137/613—With valved closure or bung
    • Y10T137/6137—Longitudinal movement of valve

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  • the present invention relates to a new piercing device for a keg tap.
  • the piercing device is part of a beer dispensing device which can be placed on a keg, as is e.g. is described in European Patent 0 283 797 or German Utility Model 91 10 371.
  • the keg valve is opened with the aid of a piercing element, which is moved down mechanically by a threaded ring (EP 0 283 797) or by a lever (DE-U 91 10 371).
  • the piercing device is e.g. fixed with the help of a pawl on the keg, inside the piercing element there is the beer line through which it reaches the tap.
  • the present invention is suitable for both procedures.
  • the present invention has therefore set itself the task; to create a piercing device for a keg tap, which allows one-handed operation and at the same time only requires a low overall height.
  • a piercing device for a keg tapper with a holding element for a base having a keg connection and therein a beer line with a tap valve and a piercing element sealed against a pressure chamber, in which, according to the invention, the base has a helical slot with a slope corresponding at least to the opening travel of the valve opening element.
  • a bayonet sleeve can be inserted into the base from above, which has its own slot that can be brought into alignment with the slot and an opposite guide edge of the same pitch, the guide edge being assigned an insertion that is open at the bottom.
  • an internally hollow piercing rap is held movably with a valve opening element and is connected to a circumferential lifting lever which extends through the slots and is arranged opposite a counter pin which is guided on the leading edge.
  • An immersion rapier provided with O-rings is inserted into the rapier, which inside has a pressure chamber sealed against the rapier and a connection bore to the latter.
  • the diving sword carries the beer line provided with a base seal on the inside, whereby a free space is left as a pressure space between the diving sword and the beer line.
  • the base then has a sleeve on the holding element, against which the piercing rapier is sealed with an upper O-ring, a transverse bore running beneath the O-ring in the piercing rapier.
  • the device is suitable for dispensers equipped with air pumps as well as with a CO2 connection.
  • the circumferential lifting lever and the counter pin can be in the open position, i.e. at the lower end of the coils e.g. by changing the pitch of the coil due to friction against the opening pressure of the keg valve spring.
  • the slots at the lower end of the coils have convex recesses that bulge upward.
  • the device can be provided with a valve for the use of the tap with a CO2 connection in the form of cartridges or bottles, which closes the gas outlet when the valve opening element is raised.
  • a valve for the use of the tap with a CO2 connection in the form of cartridges or bottles, which closes the gas outlet when the valve opening element is raised.
  • the piercing blade can have an upper plate, preferably a double plate, the edge (edges) of which lie in the bayonet sleeve and guide the piercing blade without tilting.
  • the receptacle for the circumferential lifting lever is preferably molded into the plate and this has a mounting opening accessible from above for the insertion of a locking pin, which connects the circumferential lifting lever to the piercing sword as a toggle.
  • Figure 1 shows an exploded view of the piercing device.
  • FIG. 1 shows these assembled in section.
  • Figure 3 shows an external view thereof.
  • the beer line 2 is shown with a base seal 16, which is provided on the head side with a tap connection 28, which in turn has a tap bore 29 and a pressure medium bore 30.
  • This beer line is pushed into the hollow plunge epee 13 and has an undersize on its inner wall, so that an annular space is created, via which the pressure medium (CO2, air from a hand pump) from the pressure medium bore 30 in the lower part of the plunge dore 13 to Can reach foot seal, with the lower end of the beer line 2 and the lower end of the immersion rapier - where after the foot seal 16 also rests - coincide approximately.
  • CO2 pressure medium
  • the diving rapier has three O-rings 10, 11, 12 and, below the central O-ring 11, a connecting bore 15 through which the pressure medium can emerge from the annular space between the beer line 2 and the diving rapier 13.
  • Immersion rapier 13 and beer line 2 rest in the piercing rap 6 after complete assembly and are inserted into the rapier rapier 6 after assembly of the remaining parts, the O-rings 10, 11, 12 sealingly abutting against the inner wall of the piercing rapier 6, which also has a longitudinal bore 31.
  • the device also has the base 1, the bayonet sleeve 4 and the circumferential lifting lever 7 with the handle 32 and the handle cover 33.
  • the base is a hollow cylinder and has a bottom Holding element 17, in the form of a thread that can be screwed into a corresponding mating thread of a keg, and a helical slot 3 of uniform or variable pitch.
  • the bayonet sleeve 4 has a congruent slot 3 'and opposite a slot of the same pitch or at least an upper guide edge 26 with the insertion 5 open at the bottom and internal stops 34 as an attachment for the base plate 35 of the tap connection.
  • the piercing blade shows at the top a plate 22 with a counter pin 8 opposite the circumferential lifting lever (steel) 7 and also a receptacle 23 for the lever 7 and a mounting opening 27 accessible from above for the attachment of a locking pin 36 penetrating the lever 7 at the end with O-rings 19, 19 ', between which the transverse bore 20 lies for the transmission of the pressure emitted via the connecting bore 15.
  • the immersion blade 6 is first pushed into the base 1 and then the bayonet sleeve 4 on the immersion blade, the counter pin 8 passing through the insertion 5 and resting on the leading edge 26.
  • the circumferential lifting lever is then inserted from the outside into the plate 22 of the piercing blade and fixed by the fastening pin 24.
  • handle 32 and handle cover 33 are attached to the circumferential lifting lever 7 and immersion rapier 13 with beer line 2 and tap connection 28 is introduced from above through the bayonet sleeve 4 into the piercing rapier 6.
  • the parts are fixed against each other as necessary (screwed, locked).
  • Figure 2 shows the base 1 with bayonet sleeve 4 and piercing sword 6, in the plate 22, the receptacle 23 for the lever 7 and the abutment of the counter pin 8 against the leading edge 26.
  • the sleeve 18 is arranged, in which the O -Rings 19 and 19 'of the piercing blade 6 lie sealingly and form between them a pressure chamber 37 which is closed to the outside in the upper position of the piercing blade 6 shown.
  • the lower O-ring seal 19 reaches the area of the funnel-shaped widening 21 and releases the pressure chamber 37 downwards (the keg valve being actuated at the same time) and compressed gas is able to pass through the transverse bore 20 in kick the keg.
  • Figure 3 shows the external view of the parts shown in Figure 2 with the foot thread of the base as a holding element 17 on the keg, under which a sealing ring is applied in a known manner.
  • the slot 3 has a height difference which corresponds at least to the opening travel of the piercing element 9 (FIG. 2), and, as a safeguard for the lever 7 in the lower position, an upwardly bulging latching recess into which the lever is held by the keg. Valve is pressed so that it can not move automatically.

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DE4232142 1992-09-25
DE4232142A DE4232142A1 (de) 1992-09-25 1992-09-25 Anstechvorrichtung für einen Keg-Zapfer
PCT/EP1993/002517 WO1994007791A1 (de) 1992-09-25 1993-09-17 Anstechvorrichtung für einen keg-zapfer

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