Keg for draft beer

• US 5,165,569 A
• Filed: 07/23/1991
• Issued: 11/24/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitechno Limited, Sapporo Breweries Limited (Sapporo Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitechno Limited, Sapporo Breweries Limited (Sapporo Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Fujimoto, Yutaka, Sakazume, Ryo, Furuhashi, Takaaki, Kawanishi, Katsuoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Marcus, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHWARZ, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US07/733,736
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 220/466, 220/469, 220/420, 220/4.12, 220/4.14, 220/426
• US Class Current: 220/592.19
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 7/045 Casks, barrels, or drums in their entirety, e.g. beer barrels, i.e. presenting most of the following features like rolling beads, double walls, reinforcing and supporting beads for end walls thermally insulated barrels, B65D81/3802

Abstract

A keg body for retaining draft beer substantially has adiabatic structure, in which draft beer filled in the keg body is kept cool. A part of the keg body is provided with a face which is not heat-insulated and this face is utilized as a cooling face. In case of necessity, beer is cooled from the outside through the cooling face to keep cool draft beer inside the keg body.

Claims

1. A keg for a liquid to facilitate cooling of the liquid retained in the keg and to keep the temperature of the cooled liquid in the keg, comprising:

a keg body for retaining the liquid therein and having an upper face, a lower face, a side face and a mouth piece attached to one of the upper and lower faces, said mouth piece providing the liquid into the keg body and ejecting the liquid therefrom, said keg body being formed of a keg inner cylinder for constituting a container for the liquid and a keg outer cylinder for substantially covering the keg inner cylinder except one of the upper and lower faces of the keg body, said keg inner and outer cylinders being piled together to form a space and air being removed from the space to form vacuum adiabatic layer therebetween, and

a cooling face formed on said one of the upper and lower faces of the keg body where the outer cylinder is not covered so that the liquid inside the inner cylinder is cooled through the cooling face and the temperature of the liquid inside the inner cylinder is kept by the adiabatic layer defined between the inner and outer cylinders.

2. A keg according to claim 1, further comprising a cooling device attached to the cooling face so that the liquid inside the inner cylinder is cooled by the cooling device.

3. A keg according to claim 1, wherein said mouth piece is attached to the cooling face of the keg body.

4. A keg according to claim 1, wherein said mouth piece is attached to the upper face, and the cooling face is formed at the lower face so that the liquid is cooled through the lower face of the keg inner cylinder.

5. A keg according to claim 1, wherein said keg outer cylinder has upper and lower edges having a grip and a keg leg, respectively.

6. A keg according to claim 1, wherein said cooling face is formed on the upper face of the keg body.

7. A keg according to claim 1, wherein said cooling face is formed on the lower face of the keg body.

8. A keg according to claim 1, further comprising an insulating material to be attached to the cooling face when transporing the keg so that the liquid inside the keg is kept cool.

9. A keg according to claim 8, further comprising a cooling agent situated between the cooling face the insulating material so that the liquid inside the keg is kept cool while transporting.