Abstract: An add-on valve assembly for dual-component cartridge has a valve member and a retainer nut which secures the valve member to a dual-component material cartridge. The valve member includes a body having a forwardly extending threaded nozzle and rearwardly extending top and bottom tubes. First and second passageways are formed in the top and bottom tubes, respectively, and extend through the body and nozzle. A valve stem extends generally vertically within the body and is rotatably mounted therein. The valve stem is formed with top and bottom holes which align with the first and second passageways, respectively, when the add-on valve assembly is rotated to an open position and which extend perpendicular to the first and second passageways, respectively, when the add-on valve assembly is rotated to a closed position. The tubes are adapted to extend within respective passageways of the material cartridge and communicate with a pair of chambers formed within the material cartridge.

Abstract: A foam-dispensing device includes a main tubular housing which houses a material cartridge. Several chambers are formed within the material cartridge with each chamber containing a separate material. A motionless mixer is attached to the dispensing end of the cartridge. The motionless mixer includes a tapered rear end into which the materials flow exposing the materials to one another, and a front end containing a helical mixing element. A hole is formed transversely in the motionless mixer between the rear end of the mixer and the helical mixing element for receiving a supply of pressurized gas therethrough. The materials flow out of the cartridge and into the rear end of the motionless mixer. After the materials have been exposed to one another, the materials pass by the hole and are injected with the supply of pressurized gas. The pressurized gas is injected into all of the materials after the materials have contacted one another but before the materials are mixed together by the helical mixing element.

Abstract: A cartridge for use in a dispensing gun for simultaneously dispensing and mixing a pair of chemically reactive fluid components maintained in separate chambers in the cartridge. One of the fluid components is contained in an elongated tube formed of a thin flexible film which is placed within a first chamber located either coaxially within an outer annular second chamber containing the other fluid component, or in a side-by-side relationship to the second chamber. Pistons are slidably mounted within the two chambers for simultaneously dispensing the fluid components therefrom when moved forward by plungers of the dispensing gun. In a first embodiment, the front end surface of one of the pistons is recessed from an outer end surface of the other piston to form a void space for collecting the collapsed flexible film therein to permit the outer piston to reach the full extent of its stroke and expel all of the fluid components from both the chambers.