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.
Claims29
1-15. (canceled)
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 fitting 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 and/or pierces said cap, for opening a passage from the beverage container to a tapping line connected to the operating element.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.