Tap head for keg fittings

US5176298A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Joachim Mogler · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Mogler · Eppingen, DE
• Helmut Wiedmann · Heilbronn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 11, 1991
• Grant date: Jan 5, 1993
• Expiry date: Jul 11, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/6137
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A tap head for keg fittings having an actuating lever pivotally mounted on a housing and connected to a slide movable in the housing and detent members positively engaging in one another to lock the actuating lever and with one of the detent members directly biased toward the stop position and in which the detent members are formed of plastic and are made up of an elastically self-biasing tongue cooperating with a detent edge with one of the tongue and detent edge formed integrally on the housing and the other of the tongue and detent edge integrally formed on the actuating lever and with connections for gas and liquid connectable via the slide with corresponding passages in the keg fittings.