Unitary assembly of beverage keg and gas reservoir
First Claim
1. The combination of a keg having a handling skirt defining an annular space and a gas reservoir housed in the annular space, the gas reservoir being in the shape of a portion of a torus having spaced apart opposite ends, a pressure regulator fitted into a first of said ends in the prolongation thereof, the pressure regulator being in fluid flow communication with an outlet connection projecting laterally from said first end.
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Abstract
Assembly of a pressurizable beverage keg (8) and a reservoir (1) of pressurization gas containing CO2 and comprising an expansion valve (5). The reservoir (1) is a toric portion (2) disposed concentrically at one end of the keg (8). The expansion valve (5) is mounted on one of the ends (3) of the torus. The keg (8) has at one end a handling skirt (11) defining an internal space, and the reservoir (1) is entirely disposed in the internal space of the skirt (11). The expansion valve (5) is coaxial to its end (3) of the torus (2) and has a passage (6) for emptying and filling the reservoir (1), opening through the peripheral wall of the reservoir (1) adjacent the same end (3) of the torus.
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- 1. The combination of a keg having a handling skirt defining an annular space and a gas reservoir housed in the annular space, the gas reservoir being in the shape of a portion of a torus having spaced apart opposite ends, a pressure regulator fitted into a first of said ends in the prolongation thereof, the pressure regulator being in fluid flow communication with an outlet connection projecting laterally from said first end.
- 7. A gas reservoir for use with a pressurizable beverage keg, the gas reservoir comprising a metal tube shaped in the form of an arcuate portion of a torus having opposite ends each closed by an end wall, and a pressure regulator mounted in one of said end walls in fluid communication with an adjacent outlet side port of the reservoir.
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