BEVERAGE CONTAINER AND COOLING SYSTEM FOR THE SAME

• US 20110163128A1
• Filed: 08/07/2008
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Asahi Breweries Limited (Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Asahi Breweries Limited (Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tomino, Yositaka, Taguchi, Masatake
• Application Number:
  US12/672,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20110163128A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 222/146.6
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0406 with means for carbonating the beverage, or for maintaining its carbonation B67D1/0418 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0437 comprising a gas pressure space within the container for the liquid
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 1/0869 using solid state elements, e.g. Peltier cells
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 2001/0098 using a gas
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 2001/0812 Bottles, cartridges or similar containers
• CPC Class Codes: B67D 2001/0824 with dip tubes
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 3/107 portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally

Abstract

A beverage container which preserves a beverage and dispenses the beverage using a pressurized gas; comprising a beverage storage section having a liquid outlet, an outer wall, which covers an outer periphery of the beverage storage section and is separated from the beverage storage section by a hollow section, and a gas outlet which communicates the hollow section and an outer area; wherein the hollow section is filled with a pressurized gas.

Claims

1. A beverage container which preserves a beverage and dispenses the beverage using a pressurized gas;

comprising a beverage storage section having a liquid outlet, an outer wall, which covers an outer periphery of the beverage storage section and is separated from the beverage storage section by a hollow section, and a gas outlet which communicates the hollow section and an outer area;

wherein the hollow section is filled with a pressurized gas.

2. The beverage container according to claim 1, wherein the outer wall covers all of the parts of the beverage container except for the bottom of the beverage storage section and the liquid outlet.

3. The beverage container according to claim 1, wherein the beverage container comprises a reinforcing part which connects the beverage storage section and the outer wall.

4. The beverage container according to claim 1, wherein a server is attached to the liquid outlet of the beverage container, and the server has an operating part, wherein

the server supplies a pressurized gas included in the hollow section from the gas outlet to the interior of the beverage storage section via a pressure reducing valve, the operating part switches between dispending and not dispending a beverage included in the beverage storage section through an extraction tube, and a lower end of the extraction tube exists in the vicinity of an inner bottom of the beverage storage section.

5. A cooling system of a beverage container which preserves a beverage and dispenses the beverage using a pressurized gas, wherein the cooling system comprises:

a beverage container which comprises a beverage storage section having a liquid outlet, an outer wall, which covers an outer periphery of the beverage storage section and is separated from the beverage storage section by a hollow section, and a gas outlet which communicates the hollow section and an outer area, wherein the hollow section is filled with a pressurized gas; and

a cooling device which is provided at a part of the beverage container which the outer wall does not cover.

6. The cooling system of a beverage container according to claim 5, wherein the outer wall covers all of the parts of the beverage container except for the bottom of the beverage storage section and the liquid outlet, and the cooling device is placed under the bottom of the beverage container.

7. The cooling system of a beverage container according to claim 5, wherein the cooling device has a Peltier device.