Abstract: A slot drain including a throat portion having two walls and a separator arranged to separate the two walls. The separator includes lateral projections passing through holes in the two walls. The lateral projections are bent over the two walls to retain the two walls against the separator as well as to maintain the separator in position.

Abstract: Customer information display apparatus is attached to a beverage dispense tap. In one embodiment the dispense tap handle 18 is formed of or includes light transparent and/or light reflective material, a light generating means 22, 30 is attached to the tap body, or a counter fitting therefor, remote from the tap handle, and means 36, 20 are provided to direct light from the light generating means to the tap handle, whereby, in use, the tap handle can illuminate to display customer information. In another embodiment, a shield 58 is provided on the tap body 10 and/or the tap handle 40 to present an information display surface to face customers and to mask from customer view the pivotal interface 12 between the tap handle and the tap body, at least when the tap handle is in its closed position. The apparatus may be designed for attachment to existing taps with minimal or no modification.

Abstract: A dispense tape (10) to control the flow of carbonated beers is configured to minimize pressure drop and turbulence in beer flow to an outlet nozzle (14) when open, the tap having flow restrictor means (52) operatively connected as a downstream extension of the tap valve (30), located in the path of beer flowing from the valve, arranged only to affect beer flow when the tap is nearly closed and configured to substantially restrict beer flow to maximize pressure drop and turbulence; choice of nozzle length/bore ratio enabling either a creamy flow or a squib of beer to be dispensed.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing tap for dispensing liquid from a vessel. The tap has a body adapted to fit an outlet from the vessel. The body has a dispensing mouth and a seat for a valve housed in the body. The valve comprises a valve head and stem and is spring-loaded to close against the seat and manually displaceable to open. The stem extends downstream of the seat and passes as a sliding seal fit through a guide in the body wall. A closing spring, outside the path of the dispensed liquid, is formed integrally with the body and is engaged with the outer end of the valve stem.

Abstract: In order to reduce the risk of inadvertent removal from an internally-pressurized cask or keg of a valve-type closure through which the contents are discharged, the valve body (15, 16) has rotationally-mounted on it an axially-trapped sleeve (23) which is threaded into the usual fixed socket (11) on the cask or keg. As the sleeve is screwed in, a peg (24) on the body enters a channel (25) in the socket to guide the body axially into the socket. On attempted removal of the sleeve (23) without a special tool to restrain rotation of the body in the unscrewing direction, the body tends to rotate in the unscrewing direction and the peg (24) enters a blind-ended passage (27) so preventing removal of the closure. However, the body moves axially sufficiently to open a gas-relief passage from the cask or keg to atmosphere.