Closing unit for a beverage container
OwnerEmanuela Coviinventor
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Abstract
A closing unit associable with a keg type container suitable to contain a beverage, and consisting of two cooperating coaxial containers, wherein the external container has anchoring means, or a threaded portion, comprising a valve assembly and a closing device, which can be stably anchored to the threaded portion and configured to reciprocally position with respect to each other the valve assembly and the containers.
Claims17
Closing unit associable with a keg type container suitable to contain a beverage, and the keg type container consisting of two cooperating coaxial containers, wherein one external container has anchoring means, or a threaded portion, said closing unit being suitable to cooperate, also stably, with a beverage dispensing unit, the components of the closing unit are made of recyclable plastic material, possibly also in direct union with the containers, said closing unit having in reciprocal cooperation:
- a valve assembly;
- and a closing device, able to be stably anchored to said threaded portion and reciprocally positioning with respect to each other said valve assembly and said two containers, internal and external;
- wherein
- said valve assembly comprises:
- a mobile sealing unit comprising a female sealing component cooperating with a male sealing component;
- a valve body provided with a component of the mobile sealing unit;
- a spring device provided with the other component of the mobile sealing unit,
- at least one of the following gaskets being present in said valve assembly:
- a lateral gasket associated with the valve body, an internal gasket associable, during use, with an internal surface of said internal container, an upper gasket, associable, during use, with the upper part of said two containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.