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EP1412281B1
EP1412281B1 EP02767213A EP02767213A EP1412281B1 EP 1412281 B1 EP1412281 B1 EP 1412281B1 EP 02767213 A EP02767213 A EP 02767213A EP 02767213 A EP02767213 A EP 02767213A EP 1412281 B1 EP1412281 B1 EP 1412281B1
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Eberhard Faltin
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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
    • 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
    • B67D1/04—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers
    • B67D1/0412—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers the whole dispensing unit being fixed to the container
    • B67D1/0418—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers the whole dispensing unit being fixed to the container comprising a CO2 cartridge for dispensing and carbonating the beverage
    • 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
    • B67D1/04—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers
    • B67D1/0412—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers the whole dispensing unit being fixed to the container
    • B67D1/0437—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers the whole dispensing unit being fixed to the container comprising a gas pressure space within the container for the liquid

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  • the invention relates to a home consumption keg for liquid food and in particular for beer with a barrel body and a built-in wall fitting for filling, cleaning and / or emptying the keg and a Bavarian puncture in the region of the particular cylindrical circumference of the keg for tapping the liquid Food from the keg, which is connected to the Bavarian tapestry a riser.
  • a home consumption keg for liquid food and in particular for beer with a barrel body and a built-in wall fitting for filling, cleaning and / or emptying the keg and a Bavarian puncture in the region of the particular cylindrical circumference of the keg for tapping the liquid Food from the keg, which is connected to the Bavarian tapestry a riser.
  • a keg is known from GB 847 351 A.
  • the Bavarian puncture is understood to mean a closure element which is arranged laterally in the barrel body and which is provided so that a manual tap is hammered into this cylindrical closure element, the closure element thereby opens, and then the tap itself is responsible for opening or closing the barrel body.
  • Home Consumption Keg means in particular beer kegs for household use with long-term repeated Zapfrischentician without quality loss of the drink.
  • Keggy which has an integrated CO 2 tank filled with liquid carbon dioxide.
  • the Keggy requires a special tap head, which is structurally complex and very expensive in trade. In addition, it requires a considerable technical effort when refilling the CO 2 tank with liquid carbon dioxide.
  • party kegs which consist of a five-liter tin can and thus are very small.
  • the party keg can not be closed again and fills with the tap with air, which leaves a long time in the barrel remaining beverage, especially beer, quickly become shabby, because on the one hand the carbon dioxide from the beer in the air-filled interior of the party On the other hand, the oxygen diffuses from the air into the beer.
  • the present invention has for its object to further develop the Home Consumption Keg described above and to improve it even further, to provide a barrel for household use, which has improved consumption characteristics.
  • the fitting is arranged in the lower drum body region on the pin on the side opposite the reducing and / or non-return valve.
  • the position of the fitting when tapping is not important in itself, since it is no longer needed.
  • it should be at the bottom of the drum body to facilitate access to the drum interior and allow the use of a standard keg cleaning and filling machine.
  • the riser has the advantage to provide a long throttle path between barrel interior and tap available, resulting in - for example, at an inner diameter of the riser of about 2 mm - a large flow resistance, thereby resulting in a low Reynolds number and ultimately a laminar flow so that the beer can be tapped with appropriate foaming.
  • the known Home Consumption Kegs usually lack a corresponding technique and the pin is therefore often associated with excessive foaming in house use
  • the riser ensures that even using the well-known and very simple tapping by means of a tap, the Zapfcharacter good. The reason for this lies in the flow conditions within the riser, whereby it is of course an advantage to make the riser as long as possible before the Bavarian puncture.
  • the Bavarian puncture spaced from the lower end of the barrel body (or from the Gearventiltechnik arranged there) and in particular in the upper half of the barrel body (the actual barrel bottom in the later described in more detail preferred embodiment), so that the riser up into the barrel bottom opposite head region can extend over a considerable height, which leads to a further increase in the flow resistance.
  • a special side effect of this upwardly laid Bavarian puncture is that it is now possible for the first time to put a beer glass under the tap, which is located on the same level as the keg. So it does not have a special special equipment for parking the glasses be arranged below the barrel, as there is sufficient space under the tap for a glass to be filled and more glasses can then be arranged in a simple manner next to this glass on the tapping table.
  • the riser should preferably have a substantially increasing course to improve the flow conditions and the cleaning.
  • the keg has an integrated reducing and / or non-return valve for connecting a CO 2 tank, this valve is preferably set or preset so that it has an internal pressure of 0.8 to 1.2 bar inside the barrel guaranteed.
  • An external CO can be connected to the valve 2 container then be connected, or - and this is a further feature essential to the invention - the keg has an integrated CO 2 container for containing a sufficient amount of CO 2 for the complete emptying of the keg.
  • the user of the keg actually needs nothing more than a simple tap to tap in the simplest way a beer that corresponds to the professional conditions, which neither has excessive foaming, nor scarf after shorter or longer periods, because the necessary pressure to tap or fill the cavity forming inside the cavity by CO 2 , which is stored in the integrated into the keg CO 2 tank.
  • contamination of the beverage by ambient air is avoided and the kegs remain moist and clean inside.
  • the CO 2 in the CO 2 container is gaseous.
  • the filling of the once-used keg with CO 2 is much easier than if this would be in the liquid state, because then would have to be controlled by a costly volume measurement, the capacity of the CO 2 .
  • Liquid becomes CO 2, for example, at 20 bar only from -10 ° C, so that the volume to be filled must be calculated taking into account the weight in consideration of pressure and temperature.
  • CO 2 present in the gaseous state it is easily possible to fill the CO 2 tank until a pressure equalization with the CO 2 of the feed line exists, wherein the CO 2 tank is filled with up to 60 bar can.
  • the reducing and / or non-return valve is arranged on the journal in the upper barrel body region, this has the further effect that the CO 2 is supplied to where it is needed, namely above the liquid level. So it must not first flow through the liquid, so in particular the beer at a feed from below and possibly cause foaming, but instead simply fills the upper area of the barrel inside, in which there is no more drink (beer).
  • the integrated CO 2 container in the journal upper portion of the barrel, wherein expediently the integrated CO 2 container is surrounded by an upper collar ring or a sheath and protected from the environment.
  • the riser runs laterally next to the fitting in the bottom area of the barrel body, wherein the "bottom area” is based on the state when tapping, so represents the side with the fitting. That is, due to the riser extending in the direction of the fitting, it will not be possible to use the barrel in the orientation of the spigot in which the fitting is at the top, since the riser would be up to the barrel top in the barrel interior and its end soon above the liquid level would be.
  • the Home Consumption Keg 1 shown in Figure 1 consists of a two-deep-drawn shells barrel body 2, which are welded together at a weld 3.
  • the keg has a known per se fitting 4 with connected filling pipe 18 in the upper region shown in Figure 1, but which forms the bottom portion of the keg during the pin. That is, Figure 1 shows the state for transporting the keg, while for filling and tapping the keg 1 "must be turned upside down", so that then the fitting is located in the bottom area.
  • a check valve 5 is provided, through which the stored in a CO 2 container 6 gaseous CO 2 can flow after reducing pressure in a reducing valve in the barrel interior.
  • the CO 2 container 6 is shown in Figure 2 in plan view even better: There is also at one end of the C-shaped bent CO 2 tank the fixed preset reducing valve 7 and on the other side of the CO 2 tank a connecting pipe 8, which connects the CO 2 tank via a pressure measuring knob 9 with a central unit 10 and finally with a high pressure valve 11 for filling the CO 2 tank.
  • the barrel body has an upper collar ring 13 and a lower collar ring 14, which give the keg a secure footing or make it stackable and also protect the CO 2 fitting and the fitting against external influences.
  • the collar ring 14 shown in Figure 1 below is the pin of the upper collar ring, while the collar ring 13, which is shown in Figure 1 above, when pin is the lower collar ring.
  • the collar ring 14 thus surrounds the CO 2 container and protects it against external influences.
  • a Bavarian puncture 15 is provided, which is integrated into the cylindrical peripheral wall of the barrel body and extending from this radially inward extends.
  • a riser is provided, which extends, starting from the radial extent in the axial direction bent to the bottom portion of the barrel.
  • the riser 16 is arranged at a distance from the axial axis of the barrel so that it leaves free the area of the fitting 4, thereby not hindering in particular the cleaning of the barrel interior by the opening 17 of the barrel which is filled with itself by the fitting.
  • the riser has an inner diameter of only about 2 mm, to cause the greatest possible flow resistance and thereby produce a laminar flow of the beer, which leads to extremely low foam development even when using simple taps.

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Claims (11)

  1. Fût à usage privé pour des denrées alimentaires liquides et en particulier pour de la bière, comprenant
    - un corps de fût (2), avec
    - un raccord (4) intégré à sa paroi et destiné au remplissage, au nettoyage et/ou à la vidange du fût (1), et
    - une bonde de type bavarois (15) dans la zone de circonférence en particulier cylindrique du fût pour tirer hors du fût l'aliment liquide,
    un tuyau montant (16) étant raccordé à la bonde de type bavarois, caractérisé en ce que le raccord (4) est disposé dans la zone inférieure du corps de fût en situation de tirage.
  2. Fût à usage privé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la bonde de type bavarois (15) est à distance de la zone inférieure du corps de fût (2) en situation de tirage.
  3. Fût à usage privé selon au moins l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la bonde de type bavarois (15) est disposée dans la moitié supérieure du corps de fût (2) en situation de tirage et en ce que le tuyau montant (16) s'étend jusque dans la zone du fond.
  4. Fût à usage privé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que le tuyau montant (16) présente un parcours essentiellement ascendant.
  5. Fût à usage privé selon au moins l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le fût (1) comprend une soupape de réduction intégrée (7) pour le raccord à un réservoir de CO2 (6).
  6. Fût à usage privé selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que le fût (1) comprend un réservoir de CO2 (6) intégré.
  7. Fût à usage privé selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le CO2 stocké dans le réservoir (6) se présente sous forme gazeuse.
  8. Fût à usage privé selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que la soupape de réduction (7) est disposée dans la zone supérieure du corps de fût en situation de tirage.
  9. Fût à usage privé selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le réservoir de CO2 intégré (6) est disposé dans la zone supérieure du corps de fût en situation de tirage.
  10. Fût à usage privé selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que le réservoir de CO2 intégré (6) est entouré d'une bague à collet supérieure (14).
  11. Fût à usage privé selon au moins la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que le tuyau montant (16) pour le tirage s'étend latéralement au raccord (4) et que son tuyau de remplissage (18) s'étend jusque dans la zone du fond du corps de fût (2).
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DE10138366A DE10138366A1 (de) 2001-08-04 2001-08-04 Home Consumption Keg
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DE202005017072U1 (de) * 2005-10-28 2006-12-07 SCHäFER WERKE GMBH Getränkeschankanlage zum Zapfen mit Druckgas aus einem Getränkebehälter

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