Gas Recovery System
OwnerGlyn Jones, Robert Shettleinventors
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A gas recovery system for a beverage dispensing system, the gas recovery system comprising: means for drawing gas from an at least partially used beverage container, a compressor downstream of said at least partially used beverage container; a gas separator downstream of said compressor, a gas storage vessel downstream of said gas separator; wherein in use the gas recovery system is configured to draw gas from the at least partially used beverage container and to separate said gas into component gases by passing said gas through said gas separator, and to selectively direct at least one of the separated component gases to said gas storage vessel.
Claims29
A gas recovery system for a beverage dispensing system, the gas recovery system comprising:
- means for drawing gas from an at least partially used beverage container;
- a compressor downstream of said at least partially used beverage container;
- a gas separator downstream of said compressor;
- a gas storage vessel downstream of said gas separator;
- wherein in use the gas recovery system is configured to draw gas from the at least partially used beverage container and to separate said gas into component gases by passing said gas through said gas separator, and to selectively direct at least one of the separated component gases to said gas storage vessel.
A gas recovery system for a beverage dispensing system, the gas recovery system comprising:
- means for drawing gas from an at least partially used beverage container;
- a gas separator downstream of said at least partially used beverage container;
- a gas storage vessel downstream of said gas separator;
- wherein in use the gas recovery system is configured to draw gas from the at least partially used beverage container and to separate said gas into component gases by passing said gas through said gas separator, and to selectively direct at least one of the separated component gases to said gas storage vessel, wherein the gas separator comprises a hollow fibre membrane.
A liquid dispensing system for dispensing liquids such as beer from a beverage container, the system comprising:
- two or more beverage containers operably coupled to a dispense assembly enabling simultaneous dispensing of liquid from the two or more beverage containers, each of the two or more beverage containers having an associated detector for detecting at least partial use of the associated beverage container;
- an exhaust gas removal assembly allowing removal of at least some gas from the beverage container which is detected as being at least partially used;
- and an indicator to inform an operator that the at least partially used container is ready for removal and replacement within the liquid dispensing system.
7-8. (canceled)
10-13. (canceled)
(canceled)
29-30. (canceled)
-40. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.