US3221931A - Pressurized system and method for the delivery of beverages from bulk - Google Patents

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US3221931A
US3221931A US348960A US34896064A US3221931A US 3221931 A US3221931 A US 3221931A US 348960 A US348960 A US 348960A US 34896064 A US34896064 A US 34896064A US 3221931 A US3221931 A US 3221931A
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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
    • B67D1/04—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage 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
    • 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
    • B67D2001/0475—Type of gas or gas mixture used, other than pure CO2
    • B67D2001/0481—Single inert gas, e.g. N2

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  • This invention relates to a system and method for the supply of filtered beer at the bar of a hotel, club, public hous or the like from a bulk storage, and whether the storage is arranged at a lower or higher level than the bar or is on the same level.
  • the term bulk storage as used herein means a storage container which is more or less permanently installed in a premises as distinct from interchangeable barrels or kegs, and which has a capacity of more than one barrel.
  • Objects of the invention are to provide conditions of maximum hygiene in such a system, the liquor to be delivered being inaccessible during feeding to the container, and during storage in the container so that it may be discharged at the bar in the same condition as when it left the brewery; to provide for the minimum of effort on the part of the barman in drawing the beer from the bulk storage, the pressure for expelling the liquor at the dispensing point being provided otherwise than by the barman himself; to eliminate all opportunity for a landlord or attendant at a hotel or club to dilute the liquor before delivery, either by adding water to the bulk or by the return to the bulk of drippings and spillings at the bar; and (in cases where this is required) to allow of accurate measurement of the dispensed liquor (within the tolerances allowed by law), irrespective of the amount of head formed whilst dispensing, so that no spilling at the dispenser takes place.
  • the present invention provides a system for the dispensing of filtered beer in which first beer has been filtered is fed to and stored in a permanently installed bulk container of a capacity larger than one barrel, and in which the beer is drawn off from the bottom of said container as and when required by means of an automatic measuring and shut-off dispenser set to deliver a predetermined measured quantity at each operation.
  • An example of such a dispenser is set forth in British patent specification No. 868,623.
  • a pressure gas such as CO or nitrogen
  • the pump may or may not be of a metering type, and if of such a type it may be a peristaltic pump or otherwise.
  • the said container which may be a compartmented container or a battery of containers for the bulk liquor, be refrigerated so that a chilled filtered beer may be dispensed and, in any case the beer may be made to pass through an in-line cooler in known manner as it goes from the bulk to the dispenser.
  • the dispensed liquor is free from sediment owing to having been filtered before storage, the required accuracy of quality is automatically determined when the automatic dispenser is used and, if the bulk container is suitably pressurized, it is an advantage of the system that a uniform aeration or sparkle is maintained in the liquor as there is no loss of aeration into the empty part of the container as the container empties.
  • a further feature of the invention resides in the fact that if apparatus is used for supplying pressure gas to the upper part of the bulk container, this is so disposed that releasable connections between the bulk container and the bottles from which the gas supply is taken, for the interchange of empty and full bottles, are arranged at a level lower than the top of the container, for example, are at the bottom end of a rigid conduit extending downwardly alongside the container, thus making it impossible for liquor to be poured into the container whilst a gas bottle is disconnected.
  • a suitable pressure gauge will usually be fitted to the container to indicate the interior pressure, and this gauge may be associated with an automatically controlled valve so as to maintain a constant interior pressure in the container without supervision.
  • the beer will be fed into the container through the outlet opening at the bottom, after a suitable interchange between supply and delivery conduits, thus rendering any filling orifice at the top of the container unnecessary and thereby further eliminating the risk of dilution of the beer.
  • Venting of the container during the filling operation will be arranged for at the gas inlet by the use of suitable interchange valves or like means.
  • the gas bottle or bottles may be stored elsewhere and have a suitable pipe communication with the bulk container.
  • the gas bottle or bottles may be arranged to be suspended from a ceiling, adjacent the container though this is not preferred.
  • a smaller gas bottle for each container mounted on the same stillage as the container.
  • the invention therefore provides, for use in a pressurised automatic shut-01f type of delivery systems as defined above a drinking vessel marked with the necessary level indication for a specific volume of liquor and having a capacity above that level slightly larger than is necessary to accommodate any head that might form during dispensing.
  • FIG. 1 represents a section through a building in which the apparatus is installed, and where the bulk container is pressurised;
  • FIG. 2 is a similar view illustrating a case where the beer is pumped from the container.
  • FIG. 1 there is a thermally-insulated bulk container 1 resting on supports 2 and having a flanged outlet 3, at the bottom 31 of the container which either a supply pipe 26 or a header 4 may be interchangeably attached, the header 4 having valve-controlled delivery pipes 5 leading to various dispense points in the building, one of which is shown as a bar counter 6 on an upper floor 23 of the building.
  • a thermal insulation is designated 36
  • the valves in delivery pipes 5 are designated 25.
  • the room, in which the container is located, is desiguated 24, and the in-line cooler is designated 22.
  • each vessel 9 includes a mark 19 as a level indication, the portion below the line having the capacity to contain a predetermined, metered quantity 20 of beer delivered from the dispenser 7.
  • the portion above the line is of predetermined capacity sufficient to hold any head, or froth, 21 produced by the quantity 20 Without spillage.
  • a C0 bottle 11 the discharge nozzle from which is connected by a conduit and releasable connections 34 and 35 forming the union 13 at the lower end 29 of a rigid gas pipe 14 lower than the top 30 of the container, the other, or upper, end 28 of conduit 12 entering the container 1 at the gas inlet port, or orifice 15.
  • the purpose of feeding the gas conduit 12 to the union 13 at a lower point than the point of entry 15 into the container 1 as shown, is to prevent the entry into the container of water or drippings etc., say during the time when an empty gas bottle 11 is being replaced by a full one.
  • the liquor is discharged from the container, lifted to the dispensing point, and the dispenser operated, all by the fluid pressure means 33 consisting of the pressure of CO in the container.
  • the pressurisation of the container 1 is dispensed with except for maintaining the correct amount of gasification of the liquor, and a driven pump 16 is provided for propelling the beer to the dispense point or points.
  • a driven pump 16 is provided for propelling the beer to the dispense point or points.
  • This may be a metering pump, for example, a peristaltic pump or it may stop or start under control of the dispense valve or tap, or it may be a continuously running pump with by-pass means to divert the pumped beer when the dispense outlet is closed.
  • the use of this invention results in the delivery at each service of an exactly metered quantity of filtered, refrigerated undiluted beer, without dripping or spilling at the dispense point, the delivery being into a drinking vessel which is of a larger size than is necessary to contain the required quantity and any head that may form but, as the metering is automatic, there is no necessity for the server to take care as to how much is entered into the drinking vessel.
  • a hygienic, filtered beer storage and system comprising:
  • a bulk storage beer container having a capacity of more than one barrel, said container having a gas inlet at the top thereof but being free of liquid filling orifices except for a liquid inlet and outlet opening, closed by a header, at the bottom thereof;
  • a gas pipe of rigid material, having an upper end connected to said gas inlet and having a lower end extending downwardly therefrom, to a level lower than the top of said container, for preventing the introduction of liquid into said inlet;
  • a metering tap mounted outside of said storage room, said tap dispensing a predetermined quantity of beer, plus the head normally produced by such quantity;
  • fiuid pressure means in said system, in advance of said tap, said means being operable on the beer in said system to deliver said beer under predetermined pressure to said tap;
  • said fluid pressure means includes a pressurized gas bottle, in said room, said bottle having a gas conduit with a releasable connection forming a union with the said releasable connection on the lower end of said gas pipe;
  • said fluid pressure means includes a driven pump mounted in said room at the level of the bottom of said container, said pump being in said beer delivery conduit;
  • said pump delivers beer under pressure to said tap and said rigid gas pipe vents the beer in said container, while maintaining the inaccessibility of said system to contamination.
  • an in-line cooler mounted in said system between said bulk container and said tap for chilling said filtered beer in advance of said tap.

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US3876107A (en) * 1971-04-30 1975-04-08 Wienerberg Getranke Ges M B H Process and apparatus for conveying liquids containing gases
EP0089092A2 (de) * 1982-03-16 1983-09-21 Grolsche Bierbrouwerij N.V. Feststehende Bierbehälter
DE3516652A1 (de) * 1985-05-09 1986-11-13 Gorgija 2000 Hamburg Blazewski Vorrichtung zur getraenkeversorgung in fahrzeugen
US5465874A (en) * 1993-11-17 1995-11-14 Basf Corporation Portable multi-compartment chemical storage and mixing tank
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US3876107A (en) * 1971-04-30 1975-04-08 Wienerberg Getranke Ges M B H Process and apparatus for conveying liquids containing gases
EP0089092A2 (de) * 1982-03-16 1983-09-21 Grolsche Bierbrouwerij N.V. Feststehende Bierbehälter
EP0089092A3 (en) * 1982-03-16 1984-01-04 Grolsche Bierbrouwerij B.V. Stationary beer container
DE3516652A1 (de) * 1985-05-09 1986-11-13 Gorgija 2000 Hamburg Blazewski Vorrichtung zur getraenkeversorgung in fahrzeugen
US5570813A (en) * 1993-09-30 1996-11-05 C.H. & I. Technologies, Inc. Viscous material delivery and management system and method
US5465874A (en) * 1993-11-17 1995-11-14 Basf Corporation Portable multi-compartment chemical storage and mixing tank
US5628431A (en) * 1993-11-17 1997-05-13 Basf Corporation Portable multi-compartment chemical storage and mixing tank
US10059579B1 (en) 2013-04-16 2018-08-28 Patrick Ridder Liquid dispensing system

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