Keg-tapping device

Claim 1

A closure for the tapping hole of a beer keg of the Peerless type, comprising: A. a cylindrical body of a size to snugly fit the tapping hole, said body having inner and outer ends and a circumferential flange larger in diameter than the body at the outer end of the body to limit insertion thereof into the tapping hole; B. a pair of side-by-side straight bores extending longitudinally through the body, one of said bores providing a passage for liquid and the other for gas; C. the bore which provides the gas passage having an inner small diameter section and an outer lArge diameter section, each opening to its respective end of the body, and the junction therebetween being spaced inwardly of said flange; the large diameter section breaking through the side of the cylindrical body inwardly of its flange to provide a lateral entrance into the bore; D. an inwardly facing valve seat in the large diameter section of said bore, said valve seat being spaced outwardly from the junction of the two sections of the bore; E. a spring-pressed check valve in the large diameter section of said bore with its spring confined between the junction of the two sections of the bore and yieldingly holding the check valve on said valve seat, said check valve and its spring being of a size to pass through said lateral entrance so as to enable assembly thereof with the body; and F. an outwardly biased check valve in the bore which provides the liquid passage.