Beverage dispensing assembly and container for use in a beverage dispensing assembly
AssigneeHeineken Supply Chain B.V.
InventorPeter Albert Irma Van Damme
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Abstract
Beverage dispensing assembly, comprising a container and a tapping apparatus having a chamber in which the container fits and can be entered into through an opening closable by a lid, such that the container is enclosed between the lid and an opposite end of a chamber, wherein spaced apart from the lid and preferably at said opposite end of the chamber a first connector is provided, for feeding pressurised gas into the container through a gas inlet provided in the container, and at the side of the opening of the chamber a pressure element is provided for pressing the container with the gas inlet onto the first connector.
Claims35
A beverage container, wherein a closure is provided in and/or on a neck region of the beverage container, comprising a substantially tubular element at the neck region, having a peripheral wall, and an operating element fit inside said substantially tubular element, slidingly sealing against the peripheral wall, wherein a cap is fitted at or near an end of the substantially tubular element, closing off the substantially tubular element, wherein the operating element can be pushed into the substantially tubular element to such extent that the operating element at least partly removes the cap from the substantially tubular element, pushing the cap at least partly into a beverage space of the container, away from the substantially tubular element, and/or pierces said cap, for opening a passage from the beverage container to a tapping line connected to the operating element.
A beverage container, wherein a closure is provided in and/or on a neck region of the beverage container, comprising a substantially tubular element at the neck region, having a peripheral wall, and an operating element fit inside said substantially tubular element, slidingly sealing against the peripheral wall, wherein a cap is fitted at or near an end of the substantially tubular element, closing off the substantially tubular element, wherein the operating element can be pushed into the substantially tubular element to such extent that it at least partly removes the cap from the substantially tubular element, pushing the cap at least partly into a beverage space of the container, away from the substantially tubular element, and/or pierces said cap, for opening a passage from the beverage container to a tapping line connected to the operating element, wherein the operating element, at a side opposite a forward end facing the cap, comprises or is connected to a dispense line, wherein the operating element further is provided at said side with an outward flaring surface surrounding a part of the dispense line, wherein the dispense line is supported by the flaring surface.
A beverage container, wherein a closure is provided in and/or on a neck region of the beverage container, comprising a substantially tubular element at the neck region, having a closed peripheral wall, and an operating element fit inside said substantially tubular element, slidingly sealing against the peripheral wall, wherein a cap is fitted at or near an end of the substantially tubular element, closing off the substantially tubular element, wherein the operating element can be pushed into the substantially tubular element to such extent that it at least partly removes the cap from the substantially tubular element, pushing the cap at least partly into a beverage space of the container, away from the substantially tubular element, and/or pierces said cap, for opening a passage from the beverage container to a tapping line connected to the operating element, wherein the operating element extends beyond the end of the tubular element after having removed the cap from the tubular element at least partly.
A beverage container, wherein a closure is provided in and/or on a neck region of the beverage container, comprising a substantially tubular element at the neck region, having a peripheral wall, and an operating element fit inside said substantially tubular element, slidingly sealing against the peripheral wall, wherein a cap is fitted at or near an end of the substantially tubular element, closing off the substantially tubular element, wherein the operating element can be pushed into the substantially tubular element to such extent that the operating element at least partly removes the cap from the substantially tubular element and/or pierces said cap, for opening a passage from the beverage container to a tapping line connected to the operating element, wherein the operating element comprises an end portion provided with extending elements for engaging the end of the substantially tubular element when the cap is removed at least in part from the substantially tubular element, for locking the operating element within the substantially tubular element, such that the operating element is prevented from moving back again into the tubular element.
A beverage container, wherein a closure is provided in and/or on a neck region of the beverage container, comprising a substantially tubular element at the neck region, having a peripheral wall, and an operating element fit inside said substantially tubular element, slidingly sealing against the peripheral wall, wherein a cap is fitted at or near an end of the substantially tubular element, closing off the substantially tubular element, wherein the operating element can be pushed into the substantially tubular element to such extent that the operating element at least partly removes the cap from the substantially tubular element and/or pierces said cap, for opening a passage from the beverage container to a tapping line connected to the operating element, wherein the operating element comprises or is connected to, at a side opposite a forward end facing the cap, a dispense line, wherein the operating element further is provided at said side with an outward flaring surface surrounding a part of the dispense line, wherein the dispense line is supported by the flaring surface during use, further comprising a tapping valve operating system, to which a valve provided in and/or on the dispense line can be connected, such that with the tapping valve operating system a passage of the dispense line can be brought into fluid communication with the environment for dispensing a beverage from the beverage container or blocked there from for interrupting or preventing such dispensing.
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