Spear valve for emptying and filling a pressurised beverage keg
AssigneeDaunia Plast S.P.A.
InventorMauro DE PASQUALE
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Abstract
A valve device (2) is provided for the filling and the emptying of a double-walled container (1) totally made of a plastic material such as PET or similar, wherein said container (1) comprises a first container (10) and a second container (11) made of yieldable plastic material and being inserted inside said first container (10), the valve device (2) comprises a valve body which includes a first tubular member (20) connected to a second tubular member (21), and a third tubular member (22) mounted in an axially movable manner inside said valve body against the action of a spring (23).
Claims18
Valve device for the filling and the emptying of a double-walled container totally made of a plastic material such as PET or similar, wherein said container comprises a first container made of a substantially rigid plastic material, and a second container inserted inside said first container and made of a yieldable plastic material, thereby defining a gaseous inner volume between said first container and said second container, and a communicating port for communicating said inner volume with the outside, said port being formed at a neck part of a neck and at a mutual connection region of said first and second container, and an opening for the filling/emptying said container is provided at said neck part of the neck, said valve device being mounted onto said neck part of said neck of said container, and a locking member for the locking of said valve device onto said opening,
- characterized in that said valve device comprises a valve body which includes a first tubular member connected to a second tubular member, the latter connected in a blocked manner onto said opening of the container through said locking member, a third tubular member mounted in an axially movable manner inside said valve body against the thrust of a spring, said third tubular member being able to slide through a pneumatic sealing member arranged at one end part of said first tubular member, said third tubular member having a free end, the arrangement being such that said free end abuts against the thrust of said spring on a port at the central part of said second tubular member.
Valve device for the filling and the emptying of a double-walled container according to the preceding claim, wherein said third tubular member internally comprises a spring which urges a sealing member against a port at the end part of said third tubular member.
Valve device for the filling and the emptying of a double-walled container according to the preceding claim, wherein said connector comprises a movable rod which is mounted in an axially movable manner and is adapted to interface with said sealing member, the arrangement being such that the interconnection of said connector with said valve device causes the axial displacement of said rod, the latter causing said sealing member displacing against the action of said spring and spacing said sealing member from said port at the end of said tubular member, thereby opening said port for the selective flows of both beverage and gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.