Beverage dispensing assembly 200 comprising a beverage container 201 with a container body 202 defining a beverage chamber arranged for holding a beverage; a dispenser 230 with a dispensing opening for dispensing the beverage; and a dispensing line extending between the beverage chamber and the dispensing opening to form a flow path enabling a flow of beverage from the beverage chamber to the dispensing opening. The dispensing line comprises a first dispensing line part 211 attached to the container body 202 and a separate second dispensing line part 220 attached to the dispenser 230, the first and the second parts fluid tightly coupled to each other with detachable coupling means 210. The first dispensing line part defines an upstream flow path section arranged to at least reduce a microorganism migration rate from a downstream flow path section in the second dispensing line part into the beverage chamber.

A valve unit for a container includes a valve body and a spring device disposed inside it and provided with an upper plate. The valve body has a top wall provided with a central delivery aperture and a mating sealing lid. The sealing lid and upper plate include reciprocal coupling members.

A spring device for a valve unit for a beverage container includes at least one elastic element provided with a first terminal part associable with, or defining during use, a mobile head of the valve unit, and with a second terminal part associable during use with a support element provided in said valve unit. The elastic element is provided with at least one guide device directed in a direction of compression and release of said elastic element.

The invention concerns a gripping and closing device for a keg-type container (10) for liquids, said gripping and closing device comprising a closing and tapping cap (16) and a gripping handwheel (15) which is suitable to handle and move the container (10), said container (10) comprising a drum (13) containing a bag and being able to cooperate with said closing cap (16), said closing cap (16) being suitable to selectively close an entrance (25) of the container (10) allowing the tapping. The invention also concerns a container (10) for liquids comprising the gripping and closing device (11), a method to assemble a gripping and closing device (11) and a method to assemble a container (10) for liquids comprising the method to assemble a gripping and closing device (11). The invention also concerns a combination of a gripping and closing device (11) and of a bottom element (14) suitable to support a drum (13) in a vertical direction and reciprocally stackable with a gripping and closing device (11) of another container (10).

A collapsible bag for use in dispensing gaseous fluids, the collapsible bag including three collapsible enclosures. Two of the collapsible enclosures have respective fluid paths extending from internal to external of the outer enclosure. The configuration of the food quality of an inner enclosures and the integrity of the third outer enclosure and as well as the relative volume of one inner enclosure to the outer enclosures effects the dispensing mechanism of the pressure which allows transfer of the pressure without fluid interaction to another of the at inner collapsible enclosures and selective dispensing.

A set of preforms to make a container for beverages, comprising an external preform and an internal preform, each intended to form respectively an external keg and an internal bag of the container. The internal preform is associated internally with the external preform in order to define with the external preform a hollow space. The external preform and the internal preform have respective coupling members suitable to clamp the external preform and the internal preform with respect to each other in a desired reciprocal position.

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).

Container of a bag-in-container type, wherein a neck region of the container is provided with at least one opening extending substantially radially there through, into a space between the outer container and an inner container adjacent thereto, wherein the neck region is provided with coupling elements, preferably at opposite sides of the at least one opening, seen in circumferential direction, for coupling of a connecting device to the container for introducing a pressure fluid through the at least one opening into a space between the inner and outer container.

A closure for a beverage keg is provided, comprising an outer housing wall defining at least a portion of a valve housing and an inner duct that is located within the outer housing wall. The inner duct extends through at least a portion of the valve housing to define a flow path through the closure. The outer housing wall and the inner duct are integrally formed together as part of a single housing component.

Beverage container, comprising a body and a neck, wherein at the neck a valve is provided for dispensing a beverage comprising gas from the container, wherein an inner surface part of the container adjacent the valve, especially an inner surface part of the container within the neck between the body and an inlet side of the valve is smooth and sloping towards the inlet side of the valve, such that foam is prevented from being trapped at the inner surface of the neck.