Classifications

• • 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
  • B67D1/12—Flow or pressure control devices or systems, e.g. valves, gas pressure control, level control in storage containers
  • B67D1/14—Reducing valves or control taps
  • B67D1/1405—Control taps
  • B67D1/145—Control taps comprising a valve shutter movable in a direction perpendicular to the valve seat
  • B67D1/1466—Control taps comprising a valve shutter movable in a direction perpendicular to the valve seat the valve shutter being opened in a direction opposite to the liquid flow
• • 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
  • B67D1/0462—Squeezing collapsible or flexible beverage containers, e.g. bag-in-box containers
• • 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
  • B67D1/0801—Details of beverage containers, e.g. casks, kegs
• • 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
  • B67D1/0801—Details of beverage containers, e.g. casks, kegs
  • B67D1/0802—Dip tubes
• • 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
  • B67D3/00—Apparatus or devices for controlling flow of liquids under gravity from storage containers for dispensing purposes
  • B67D3/04—Liquid-dispensing taps or cocks adapted to seal and open tapping holes of casks, e.g. for beer
  • B67D3/045—Liquid-dispensing taps or cocks adapted to seal and open tapping holes of casks, e.g. for beer with a closing element having a linear movement, in a direction parallel to the seat
• • 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
  • B67D1/0801—Details of beverage containers, e.g. casks, kegs
  • B67D2001/0822—Pressurised rigid containers, e.g. kegs, figals
  • B67D2001/0824—Pressurised rigid containers, e.g. kegs, figals with dip tubes

Definitions

• the present invention is directed to a one-way dispensing tap for dispensing liquid from a pressurized liquid container modified from known dispensing taps so as to be preferably mounted in the upper portion of the side wall of the liquid container.
• the invention also relates to a liquid container with a corresponding opening for and with this tap.
• the inner tube further has an outlet opening, so that when the two inlet openings are above one another, liquid can enter the tap and can be tapped through the outlet opening. To close this tap, the inner tube must be fully reinserted into the outer tube.
• a disadvantage of this configuration is that to shut off the inner tube must always be pushed back into the outer tube after 30 pins. If the pipe slips, this can lead to unwanted liquid leakage.
• This tap also includes an outer tube and a 35 inner tube, which is arranged displaceably in the outer tube.
• the liquid outlet opening is arranged in an outer region of the wall of the inner tube, which must be pulled out correspondingly far from the outer tube at the beginning of the first tapping operation.
• the actuator for this valve consists of an elastic button with a grommet, which surrounds the bead of an extension of a valve stem, which in turn opens into the cone of the valve. Pressing the button opens the valve and liquid flows through the inner tube to the outlet. When the button is released, the valve closes due to the restoring force exerted by the elastic grommet surrounding the bead and supported by the internal pressure in the container.
• this opening is closed by means of a protective sheath sealingly pushed over the inner portion of the outer tube and having a smaller diameter tubular extension at the front.
• the inner tube is frontally provided with a pin which is dimensioned so that it extends in the initial state, in which the inner tube is fully inserted into the outer tube, in the tubular extension of the protective sheath and sealingly seals.
• a remainder hole is provided, which can be brought on further withdrawal of the inner tube with a corresponding bore with this to cover, so that liquid residues can get into the tap by tilting the container.
• a disadvantage of the systems described so far is that the nozzle must be located very far down in the side wall of the liquid container, so that the container can be emptied sufficiently. Due to the confined space below the tap, the container must be placed towards the spigot on a tapping trestle or table edge to allow liquid to be dispensed into a corresponding receptacle, e.g. a beer glass, to tap. It is therefore either easy to overturn or requires its own dedicated stand device. In addition, the pin is uncomfortable because of the low-lying tap.
• Such a system could be operated using an internal pressure reservoir or an internal pressurized gas cartridge.
• pressure sources are known in principle.
• DE 298 22 430 shows a beverage container, e.g. a beer keg in which a high pressure bottle is positioned.
• a high pressure source in the center, on the bottom or on the lid of the drum.
• the proposed for such a system tap and possibly other accessories should therefore not extend too far into the middle of the container if possible, to allow the widest possible variety of mounting options for the pressure source.
• Object of the present invention is to provide a tap with the above-described as desirable requirement profile.
• a container / container for receiving a liquid dispensable therefrom which / which has a bottom side, a side wall and a lid or end face and an opening for attaching a tap and the / is characterized in that this opening is located in the side wall of the container / container, in an area which is closer to the top or end side than to the bottom side of the side wall.
• the opening is preferably mounted in the area above the peripheral bulge, which is modeled on a barrel hoop earlier wooden barrels, or in the absence such bulge at a height that corresponds to the so defined in the relation of the dimensions.
• the invention provides a tap that can be mounted in said opening of the liquid container, without appreciably occupy space, and with which you can tap with sufficient pressure within the container liquid even if the liquid level is lower than the tap even.
• the tap according to the invention is such according to claim 1 or claim 2 or a tap combination pipe according to claim 8.
• the dependent claims define preferred embodiments of this tap.
• the tap according to the invention can in principle be made of any material; however, it preferably consists of plastic and most preferably a combination of harder and more yielding plastic parts. It is completely manufactured and then used in the designated opening of the still empty liquid container, for example, a 5-liter can for beer, sealing.
• the tap preferably has on its outer sleeve a latching mechanism, which may be formed as in the prior art.
• the outer sleeve carry two circumferential flanges or locking wedge-wreaths, between which there is a sealing ring.
• the edges of this opening come to rest on the seal and are held by the flanges or the locking wedge rings.
• the sealingly arranged in the inner channel of the outer sleeve tube is a sliding tube and has on its outwardly facing side a handle which is located in the mounted state outside the fluid container. In addition, it has near its axially outer end an outlet opening for the liquid to be tapped.
• the handle is designed so that by pulling and possibly also turning the sliding tube comfortably between a position in which the outlet opening protrudes from the outer sleeve, and a closed position in which the sliding tube is inserted into the sleeve so far that this Outlet opening completely covered, can be pulled. This process is usually required only once in the tap according to the invention, since Preferably, a valve device is provided, which prevents the operation of the free access of liquid to the outlet opening.
• the closed position in which the sliding tube is inserted so far into the sleeve that it completely covers the outlet opening, is generally identical to the state of the sliding tube that is completely inserted into the outer sleeve.
• locking can be realized in any way, for example by providing a sliding hole or opening in the outer Sleeve which can cooperate with a sliding block attached in the lower region of the sliding tube or the like.
• a sliding hole or opening in the outer Sleeve which can cooperate with a sliding block attached in the lower region of the sliding tube or the like.
• a channel-shaped recess may be provided, which serves as a guide for a corresponding locking tab.
• valve device can, if it is provided, also be implemented in a suitable manner as proposed in DE 198 35 569 A1.
• the valve itself is located within the slide tube at any point further inwardly relative to the outlet opening.
• it is located in the central region of the inner wall of the pusher ear and comprises, e.g. described in DE 198 35 569 A1, a valve seat which is formed by an annular collar on the inside of the sliding tube and forms a conical seat, which can be sealed by means of a conical valve cone.
• This is connected to a valve stem or formed integrally therewith, wherein the valve stem in turn may be provided at its outside end with annular beads or grooves, which can cooperate with corresponding structures of a spout.
• the spout is elastic and can be integrally connected to an externally depressible bellows made of also elastic material such as rubber.
• an externally depressible bellows made of also elastic material such as rubber.
• the sliding tube has at its inner end side openings or openings through which the liquid to be tapped can get into the interior of the tube.
• This 5 should only be possible when the liquid container is taken into use and started with the pin. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent the liquid from entering the pusher tube before starting a first tapping operation.
• the end portion lying on a viewed in the axial direction inside the outer sleeve (which in these embodiments, the inner continuous tubular and at their end is open) is the extent pushed that he said (n), optionally 20 existing opening (s) or bore (s) in the lateral region of the outer sleeve sealingly covered.
• the protective sheath has a may axially inwardly adjacent part, to cooperate with a tubular recess, the pin located with a lying at the inner end side of the sliding tube, which projects in the axial direction via the tube wall, such that in the completely 2 5 inserted state the sliding tube of the pin sealingly closes said tubular recess.
• the outer sleeve is shaped so that it can take over the functions of the protective cover. You should then have no side opening.
• the protective sleeve running in the axial direction inwardly adjoining part with a tubular recess which can cooperate with a located on the inner end face of the slide tube pin 3s protrudes in the axial direction on the slide tube wall, so in that, in the fully inserted state of the sliding tube, this pin sealingly closes said tubular recess.
• the protective sheath or the outer sleeve is closed in the axial direction of the oil tap tap, but laterally has an opening, which has a means for sealingly coupling a pipe or hose, which is to serve as a riser, and in the outwardly pushed state of the tube is in fluid communication with the interior of the sliding tube.
• This opening can be configured in various ways.
• a protective sleeve which follows the contour of the outer sleeve and the outer one annular region of the end face on the end face of the outer sleeve and then into a tube, the clear width of the said tubular 20 recess forms.
• this smaller diameter tube there is a lateral opening or recess surrounded by an annular bead or flange such that a tube or hose can be coupled thereto which should extend to the bottom of the fluid container and serves as a riser.
• This tube or hose can either be pulled outside over the annular bead or flange 2 5 or inserted into this.
• the materials of both components or their diameters are selected to seal against each other under stiction.
• This embodiment can be realized in a second alternative without protective cover, 30 when the outer sleeve is realized as described above. Then, there is a side opening or recess surrounded by an annular bead or flange in the above-described axially-inwardly-adjacent part of the outer sleeve having said tubular recess.
• the preceding paragraph is carried out in 5 for the coupling of a serving as a riser pipe or hose.
• the tubular recess of either the protective sheath or the correspondingly shaped outer sleeve opens in the axial direction in a channel which leads bent or knee-shaped to a laterally mounted 0 opening in the protective cover or in the outer sleeve.
• the outer sleeve is either fully closed at the sides, or it has only the previously mentioned gate opening or a similar opening in connection with the locking of the sliding tube in the extended state, which is then covered by the protective cover. A residual emptying opening is not necessary.
• a tap with the features according to the invention fulfills the requirements set. It is protected against the ingress of liquid before first use. It has means for sealingly coupling a pipe or hose through which liquid is pressed into the tap at positive pressure in the container even when the liquid level is below the tap. He needs no Restentle fürs ⁇ opening. And due to the fact that the coupling means for the pipe or 5 hose is mounted laterally and thus can point downwards when installed, the cock can be used in combination with any systems for pressurizing, even if this, for example, center of the cover or the inner top of the container from further down than in the height in which the tap is mounted. 0
• the tap according to the invention can be used in combination with any container shapes and sizes.
• the tap can be used favorably in combination with so-called canned kegs, which may be formed in two parts (container body from bottom wall and side wall with lid) or in three parts (bottom, side wall and lid), wherein the lid and possibly also the bottom of a common DoppelfalzverInstitut or I 0 is otherwise crimped on the container body or the side wall / are.
• canned kegs can be modeled on that of old barrels; they often have a radially symmetric or approximately radially symmetric shape (eg with the wood structure of old barrels imitating polygonality).
• Moldings reminiscent of the old barrel tires can be mounted circumferentially at the corresponding points of the i 5 side wall.
• the containers may stand on their floor or on a rim structure formed by the floor area.
• the tap according to the invention can then be arranged in an upper region of the side wall, so that the container or the can barrel is provided at its production with an opening in the side wall at the location provided for this purpose.
• FIG. 1 an embodiment of the tap according to the invention according to claim 1 in conjunction with claim 6 is shown, ie a tap 1 with a one-piece 2 5 protective cover 16, which is shown in this figure in a detached state.
• the tap comprises an outer sleeve 2 with locking lugs 3 and a displaceably arranged in the sleeve 2 tube 4.
• the locking lugs are used for attachment to the liquid container.
• a pin 15 is attached at the inner end face 13 of the sliding tube 4, which has not visible in the figure inlet openings.
• a pin 15 is attached.
• the protective sheath 16 is slid with its tubular part 19 onto the viewed axially inner end portion 2 'of the outer sleeve (which for this purpose here 3 5 a slightly smaller outer diameter than the remaining portion), until the end face 13 of the sliding tube 4 on the wall 24 abuts.
• the tubular recess 20 of the protective cover sealingly engages around the pin 15. In this position, the tap is delivered and mounted.
• a hose or a hose coupling can be inserted.
• This hose serves as a riser, as shown in Figure 7. If the tap should be put into operation, so first the sliding tube on the handle 5 is pulled outwards. In this case, the pin 15 is pulled out of the recess 20. This creates a fluid connection between the lateral opening 21 of the protective cover and the inlet openings in the end wall 13, so that liquid can pass from the end of the riser into the interior of the tap. To tap it is then sufficient to open a located in the interior of the sliding tube, in Fig. 4 exemplified valve to open, which is effected by pressing the rubber bellows 9. Restoring forces as explained in the above description close the valve again when the rubber bellows is released. The sliding tube 4 can therefore remain in the extended position.
• Figure 2 shows an embodiment which differs from that of Figure 1 in that the protective cover is formed in two parts, i.
• the tap 1 corresponds to that of Figure 1.
• the protective cover consists of a first part 18 which has two tubular portions 19 ', 20'.
• the first of these parts has a diameter such that it can be slidably pushed onto the outer sleeve of the nozzle, while the second can sealingly enclose the pin 15.
• On the outer wall 24 ' can be an adapter 17 postpone.
• the pin 15 When the assembled dispensing tap is put into operation, the pin 15 is withdrawn from the recess 20 ', and there is a fluid connection between the downwardly facing opening 21' of the adapter and the inlet openings in the end wall 13 via the tubular knee 23 formed in the adapter part 25. Again, a hose or hose adapter or the like is inserted into the side wall 22 'of the opening 21' to provide a riser.
• FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the tap according to claim 2 in conjunction with claim 7.
• the outer sleeve is formed in two parts.
• At the end of the first part 2 it has an extension 29, in which the tubular recess 20" for sealingly encompassing the pin 15 (not shown here) is located.
• An adapter 17 is plugged onto this extension 29 and corresponds to the adapter 17, as shown in Figure 2.
• an intermediate piece 28 is introduced, via which a riser pipe or hose can be connected to the adapter.
• Figure 4 shows a specific embodiment of a valve assembly, as it can be used in the tap according to the invention and is known from DE 198 35 560 A1.
• a valve stem 8 which has an annular recess 11 in its upper end into which an annular bulge 10 of a rubber grommet engages, which is integrally formed on a rubber bellows 9.
• the locking lugs 3 and a collar 30, which serve as a locking means for locking the iö tap in the container opening.
• a sealing means 29 is provided, which may for example consist of a resilient plastic material ring.
• FIG. 5 shows the tap 1 according to FIG. 2 with the plugged-on first part of the protective cover 18 but without an adapter in the position in which the slide tube 4 is pulled outwards, so that liquid flows in through the inlet openings 13 'in the end face 13 can.
• the reference numerals correspond to those of Figures 1, 2 and 4.
• FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the tap with a two-part protective cover, but as shown in FIG. 5, only the part 18 of the protective cover is shown, which has small locking grooves 31 in its axial outer side in this figure.
• the locking of the sliding tube 4 is shown on the outer sleeve 2 by means of a link hole in cooperation with a sliding block, as set forth in the description.
• Figure 7 shows a tap as shown in Figure 3, installed in a liquid container, which is a canned keg with circumferential bulges 33, which are modeled on former barrel rim.
• the keg has a bottom part 37, a side wall 32 and a lid part 38; the tap is sealingly mounted in the side opening 36.
• On the extension 29 of the sleeve 2 "of the adapter 17 described in Figure 3" is attached; it is indicated that the sliding tube 4 is partially pulled out of the sleeve 2 ".
• a hose 34 is fastened to the opening 21" via the intermediate piece 28 and serves as a riser. Dotted the presence of a pressure reservoir 35 is indicated.

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