摘要 |
<p>Beverage storing and dispensing apparatus and a method of dispensing a potable beverage in which there is a non-pressurised sanitary storage tank (11) with a fill opening (12) in the top, and a normally non-pressurised pump (25) that is inside of the tank and which is removable through the tank opening while propellant and dispensing lines (68, 67) are connected to the pump; the pump has a tubular body (26), an end cap (40), a collar nut (49), holding the end cap to the body, and an expandable elastomeric bladder (52), mounted upon the end cap; a gas control has an actuator (70) for selective application of compressed propellant gas to the normally non-pressurised pump; the pump has an upward facing receiver for connection to a non-pressurised remote beverage source or to a single usage beverage package. Also a pump for such an apparatus and a method for using such a pump in such an apparatus.</p> |