Patent ID: 8127958

Claim:
A fitting for a beverage container comprising: an attachment portion provided integrally with a ferrule of a beverage container; a valve seat portion provided on an inner peripheral side of said attachment portion; a tubular down tube, an upper end portion of which is supported by said attachment portion; a gas valve fitted onto said upper end portion of said down tube for supplying a pressurized gas to the interior of said container; and a beverage valve provided in the interior of said upper end portion of said down tube for dispensing a beverage to the exterior of said container, wherein said gas valve can be replaced through a central hole in said valve seat portion, said gas valve includes a metallic core metal and a valve member with increased flexibility molded integrally with said core metal, said gas valve is capable of passing through said central hole in said valve seat portion when tilted, but incapable of passing through said central hole in said valve seat portion when horizontal, including an annular member defining a core metal opening extending circumferentially about a center axis and a flange portion connected to the annular member and extending radially outwardly therefrom to terminate in a pair of arcuate sections and a pair of non-arcuate sections, respective ones of the pair of arcuate sections and the non-arcuate sections being opposed to each other in a manner that the respective ones of the pairs of arcuate sections and non-arcuate sections are serially connected to each other to form a generally oval-racetrack shape, a first distance measured to and between the pair of arcuate sections through the center axis is larger than a second distance measured to and between the pair of non-arcuate sections through the center axis.