Abstract: A flowable food dispenser for dispensing a flowable food product. The dispenser includes a housing with first and second bays, and a plurality of cassettes that are removably receivable within the bays. Each cassette is configured for receiving a pouch containing the flowable food. First and second thermal exchange units are associated with the first and second bays, respectively, in heat-exchanging association with the cassettes received therein. A temperature-controlled system is connected with the thermal exchange units for controlling them independently to independently heat or cool the cassettes in the bays and the food product that is disposed therein. A least one dispensing mechanism is associated with the first and second bays to selectively dispense the food from the pouches that are in the cassettes.

Abstract: A dispensing gun includes a stock having a frame for holding a cartridge, a rod slidably engaged through the stock and having a plunger for moving a viscous material out of the cartridge. A trigger and an actuating plate may move the rod incrementally and forwardly and rearwardly relative to the stock. A release plate is engaged on the rod for limiting the rearward movement of the rod relative to the stock. A spring member is engaged with the release plate for moving the rod forwardly and/or for moving the release plate away from an abutment of the stock.

Abstract: An aperture forming structure for a sealed containment and dispensing package for flowable products is provided. The structure includes a breakaway tip member of thermoformable plastic. In one embodiment a cap may be integrally formed with the aperture forming structure and may be used to protect the tip member or for reclosing the aperture. An alternative embodiment relates to a pouch, wherein a flap member portion of the pouch is folded over and sealingly attached to the body of the pouch. When the flap member portion is pulled away from the body, an outlet aperture is produced through the surface of the pouch.

Abstract: A glue gun which includes a housing, a barrel slidably mounted in the front side of the housing, the barrel defining a heating chamber and a fusion chamber above the heating chamber, one-way clamp provided inside the housing to hold a glue stick, permitting the glue stick to be fed into the fusion chamber, a igniter and gas burner unit mounted in the housing and controlled by an ignition control switch to burn fuel gas in the heating chamber, the igniter and gas burner unit having a metal screw tube for holding a soldering tip in front of a flame nozzle thereof.

Abstract: A method of converting an inverted bottle water dispensing system for use with an automatic bottle refill mechanism. The inverted bottle water dispensing system to which the method relates an open topped cooling reservoir with a mounting adaptor for receiving an inverted bottle water disposed on top of the reservoir. The automatic bottle refill mechanism to which the method relates has a conduit connected to the inverted water bottle and connected to a float valve positioned within the inverted water bottle. The conduit is connected to a pressurized water service so that a continuous replenishing supply of water is supplied as permitted by the float valve. The method includes the step of permanently securing across the open top of the cooling reservoir a rigid closure cap to which a bottom of the mounting adaptor has been permanently secured. The rigid closure cap has a single access opening in liquid communication with the bottom of the mounting adaptor.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for apportionment includes compressing a paste in an apportioning chamber and thereafter delivering the paste towards a nipple after opening of a blocking element, the volume apportioning of the amount of paste to be distributed being undertaken by measuring the displacement of a piston in the apportioning chamber during delivery. The method and apparatus ensure that the apportioning chamber is placed under low pressure so as to facilitate introduction of the paste and delivery of the paste at a fast speed and then at a slow speed.

Abstract: A box-like packaging includes a plurality of walls joined together through a plurality of edges or and a dispensing opening. The dispensing opening is, constructed on the basis of the corners of the hexagon, of which a first and a fourth corner are located on an edge of the packaging and a second and third corner are provided on a first wall bounding the edge, and a fifth and a sixth corner are provided in a second wall bounding the edge, wherein, to form a semiregular hexagon, the second and sixth corners and the third and fifth corners, respectively, are provided symmetrically relative to the edge, wherein the first and second, the second and third, the first and sixth and the fifth and sixth corners are connected through bending lines, wherein the third and fifth corners are each connected with a first common point on the edge through a cutting line, such that the bending lines and cutting lines and the edge define two closed wall portions each located in one of the walls bounding the edge.