Abstract: A bottle cap assembly it is described which includes a hollow cylindrical body adapted to be fastened to the neck of a soda water bottle to seal the top opening thereof, a valve seat having valves to seal an outlet hole on the hollow cylindrical body, a division plate to hold said valve seat in place, a cap retained on said hollow cylindrical body and a bellows within said body retained by the cap. The device functions when the cap is pressed which causes outside air to be compressed and fed into the soda water container to pressurize the same. A release of the cap causes an expansion of the bellows which readmits outside air into the bellows without releasing the contents of the soda water bottle.

Abstract: A cap for a container having a slit seal and semi-cylindrical spring seal closure members that abut the inner container wall and contact the slit seal at two points spaced from the center of the slit seal. The spring members permit the flexure of the seal into the space defined by the spring when an instrument penetrates the seal. In further embodiments, the cap has a secondary closure and can maintain vacuum in a container.

Abstract: A container cap includes a cylindrical cap portion to secure to an upper distal end of an externally threaded beverage container and the like. The cap structure includes a top wall orthogonally oriented relative to an axis of the cap, and is further formed with a central boss coaxially aligned and diametrically positioned relative to the top wall to include first and second ring members that are diametrically aligned with the top wall and relative to one another to permit manual insertion of an individual's fingers to assist in the removal and application of the cap structure to the beverage container. A modification of the invention includes a vent member arranged to permit ease of ascertaining freshness of a fluid within the beverage container by permitting depressing of an associated valve structure directed through the central boss.

Abstract: In order to keep opened bottles of sparkling wine fresh, a bottle closure device has been created which consists of a stopper which can be easily inserted and which sits without further manipulation in the bottle neck in a sealing manner so as to be axially displaceable. The device is also provided with a bracket retaining device which has upper and lower retaining fingers for holding the stopper and simultaneously engaging underneath the rim of the bottle neck. The stopper also has a gas injection bore with a non-return valve in order to inject freshness-retaining gas pressure.

Abstract: A liquid dispensing closure mechanism installable on the neck portion of a plastic squeeze bottle to control the outflow of liquid from the bottle. In one form of the dispensing closure, a movable closure body has an open position and a closed position in which closed position the closure body fits tightly on the associated cap member. In another form of the dispensing closure, the movable closure body has two closed positions, in one of which the closure body fits tightly on the associated cap member, and in the other of which it fits loosely on the cap member, whereby it is readily movable to the open position with only slight manual effort. A twist lock feature is preferably utilized where a gas-tight seal is of major importance for containment of carbonated beverages.

Abstract: According to this process, the container (2) is filled, and after filling a capsule (6) carrying a valve is fixed in a sealed manner to the neck (21) of the bottle (2), said valve consisting of a membrane (5) of elastomeric material of thickness such that that valve can become sealed again by elastic recall after having undergone aspiration in order to create a reduced pressure and/or the introduction of unreactive gas, the capsule (6) and the valve (5) remaining on the container (2) and maintaining the seal of the container (2) during storage. A top cap (4) may receive the valve (5) and contribute to sealing. The invention also relates to a packaging unit for the implementation of this process.

Abstract: A low pressure relief valve made of elastomeric material is capable of relieving pressure in fixed and movable systems and is both economical and reliable.

Abstract: A cap comprising a cylindrical skirt extending from a frustoconical part, the connecting area between the cylindrical skirt and the frustoconical part being located essentially at the level of a shoulder provided in a body composed of a stopper body or in the container to be equipped itself. This connecting zone has at least one tongue delimited by two vertical slots and one horizontal slot, the horizontal edge of the tongue delimited by the slot being provided on the inside of the cap with an extension forming a first tooth which is located, when the cap is in the closed position, adjacent to a second tooth or projection associated with body when the cap is located in the unscrewing direction.

Abstract: A combination pressure and vacuum pump for food or drink containers including a pump housing having a pump cylinder therein, a pump head adapted for sealing engagement with a valve stopper on a food or drink container, and a piston in sliding airtight engagement with the pump cylinder; the pump cylinder, pump head and piston defining a pump chamber. A handle is provided for moving the piston and the pump cylinder relative to one another to pump a gas into or out of the food or drink container. The pump chamber is connected to the valve stopper via a first opening when the pump head is sealed to the valve stopper and to the atmosphere via a second opening through a combination pressure and vacuum valve, the combination valve being switchable from a vacuum position to a pressure position.A combination pressure and vacuum valve stopper is also shown which includes a valve element reversible between a pressure position and a vacuum position to convert the stopper between pressure and vacuum use.

Abstract: Stopper (1) with valve (6) for a bottle, which stopper (1) and valve (6) are integral and of the same elastic material, the valve being surrounded by a circular raised edge (5) and a circular flange (4) for cooperation with a pump (15) made from plastic material.

Abstract: A container capable of being evacuated by a pump which is removably and sealably attached thereto comprises a cover having a removable valve mounted therein and a container body which is adapted to receive the cover. A compressible indication member is positioned between the periphery of the cover and container body, the visibility of which from the outside of the container provides an indication of the evacuation state of the container. The cover and the container body are movable relative to each other which movement is dependent on the pressure difference between the interior and the surroundings of the container whereby the deformation of the indication member provides an indication of the amount of pressure in the container.

Abstract: A plug body having an inner cylindrical member with short engagement receivers and long engagement receivers together with steps, an operating button with short engaging elements and long engaging elements that are respectively received by the short engagement receivers and long engagement receivers, a rotatable slider provided with protrusions, a valve body with a valve stem which is inserted into the rotatable slider and the inner cylindrical member, a spring that preloads the rotatable slider upwards so that the long and short engaging elements of the operating button alternatively make contact with the protrusions, causing the rotatable slider to rotate with a depression of the operating button. The liquid passage is opened when the long engaging elements of the operating button make contact with the protrusions of the rotatable slider. In this case, the operating button protrudes upward above the upper lid of the liquid container.

Abstract: Stopper (1) with valve (6) for a bottle, which stopper (1) and valve (6) are integral and of the same elastic material, the valve being surrounded by a circular raised edge (5) and a circular flange (4) for cooperation with a pump (15) made from plastic material.

Abstract: A bistable expandable bottle preferably including a concentrated material to be diluted, said bottle being comprised of convex shaped bellows when in its expanded condition, said bottle also including opposed handle means for facilitating the extension of the bottle from its collapsed to its expanded condition. In a preferred embodiment a self-venting closure is also employed to seal the orifice in said bottle to permit extension of the bottle from its collapsed to its expanded condition without loosening or removing of the closure.

Abstract: A stopper having a slit valve is provided for a bottle which is adapted to be used with a pump for evacuating air from the bottle to preserve wine being consumed from the bottle or by increasing the pressure in the bottle, for example, to maintain the carbon dioxide content in a soft drink being consumed from the bottle. The stopper and valve are integral and are made of the same elastic material. The valve is surrounded by a raised circular edge for protecting the slit valve. A circular flange is provided which rests on the top of the bottle neck. The raised circular edge is shaped to sealably receive a pump housing.

Abstract: A package (10) includes a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) container (12) having a necked opening (14). A PET insert (18) is fixedly attached to an inside surface (30) of the necked opening (14) by a plurality of tack welds (34). The insert (18) makes a substantially line contact (32) with the inside surface (30) of the necked opening (14). The substantially line contact (32) extends continuously around the inside surface (30) of the necked opening (14) to form a fluid tight seal between the inside surface (30) of the necked opening (14) and the insert (18). To make the package (10), the insert (18) is driven into the necked opening (14). The tack welds (34) are formed between the necked opening (14) and the insert (18) by application of ultrasonic energy at the necked opening (14) below the line contact (32). The tack welds (34) fixedly attach the insert (18) to the necked opening (14).

Abstract: A package (10) includes a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) container (12) having a necked opening (14). A PET insert (18) is fixedly attached to an inside surface (30) of the necked opening (14) by a plurality of tack welds (34). The tack welds (34) are formed within recesses (44) that extend completely through the wall of the necked opening (14) and into the insert (18). The insert (18) makes a substantially line contact (32) with the inside surface (30) of the necked opening (14). The substantially line contact (32) extends continuously around the inside surface (30) of the necked opening (14) to form a fluid tight seal between the inside surface (30) of the necked opening (14) and the insert (18). To make the package (10), the insert (18) is driven into the necked opening (14).

Abstract: A compact and portable wine dispensing device is provided, having a support structure coupled to a closure member which fits into the neck of the wine bottle, which structure supports a removable inert gas cartridge, a gas purge valve, a wine dispensing valve, an extended gas feeder tube, an extended wine feeder tube, a gas pressure restriction regulator, a bottle switching valve and a one way valve. The portable dispensing device is fitted within the neck of the bottle, the gas cartridge is then inserted into the device and activated, and the gas purge valve is actuated to cause the inert gas within the cartridge to purge oxygen within the space above the wine, which air passes through the purge valve and out into the atmosphere.

Abstract: A container lid for liquid transfer having a double-tapered liquid transfer sleeve for providing an air-tight seal around a fluid transfer conduit and having an air passage part.

Abstract: Apparatus for determining sedimentation rates including a first support means having a plurality of tubes, held vertically and spaced, and a second support means having a plurality of tubes, of larger diameter than the tubes mounted on the first support means, and each able to receive a blood sample, the tubes being vertical and spaced on the said second support means, and a single suction device mounted at the upper end of the first support means, the support means being movable with respect to each other between a first position in which the tubes of the first support means are separated from the tubes of the second support means, a second position in which the lower ends of the tubes of the first support means dip into the tubes of the second support means, and a third position in which the sedimentation of the red blood corpuscles takes place.

Abstract: A slide type cap closure is disclosed comprising a cylindrically shaped closure member and a slidably interfitting disk member. The closure member forms a seal about the opening of the container on which it is mounted and includes an orifice extending upward from a recess formed along the top surface of the member. The recess has a pair of grooves extending along its length into which downwardly depending rails of the disk member slidably interfit. The disk member is dimensioned so as to move in a snap action manner along the upper surface of the closure member between open and closed positions. The disk member does not extend beyond the periphery of the closure member. The disk member in combination with the slightly protruding upper termination of the orifice forming member forms an extremely tight seal with the orifice when in the closed position.

Abstract: Child-proof turn-lock closure of plastic material for threaded mouths on containers, particularly on bottles, with a screw cap closure on which an outside cap is clamped with axial play, both of which caps are provided with projections or projections and grooves which, within the axial play, can engage in each other, those sides of the projections or grooves which touch each other when the cap is screwed down being made as carriers, while those sides of the projections or grooves which touch each other when the cap is screwed off act as wedges, and in such a way that, when being screwed down, the screw cap is carried by the outside cap but when being screwed off this only happens when an axial pressure is exerted on the outside cap and directed against the container, wherein recesses are provided in the face of the screw cap, which are covered by a gas- and liquid-impermeable inlay cover. The closure is particularly suitable for bottles containing hypochlorite.

Abstract: A convenient oxygen purging system for bottled wines is provided utilizing a counter-top inert gas bottle housing having a depending contactoperated gas dispensing head. A separate stopper is provided which fits into the opened mouth of a wine bottle, the stopper having a valved port system such that when pressed against the inert gas dispensing head, the inert gas is blown inside the wine bottle, expelling the air from the bottle through an evacuation port and replacing the air with the inert gas. The stopper is left in the bottle, so that ordinarily a number of the stoppers would be provided so that more than one bottle could be maintained in a preserved condition at one time.

Abstract: There is described apparatus for protecting and dispensing wine from a bottle in which a stopper assembly inserted in the neck of the bottle receives a removable cap assembly. The cap includes a chamber receiving gas under pressure from a cartridge stored in the cap. A valve in the stopper has three positions, an off position, a bottle venting position, and a bottle pressurizing position. In the latter position, gas under pressure stored in the cap is directed into the bottle so as to insert an inert gas into the bottle. In the vent position, excess pressure in the top of the bottle can be relieved. A second valve in the stopper controls an output spigot from which wine is dispensed from the bottle.

Abstract: A waste outlet fitting for a bath, basin, sink or the like comprises a tubular body in which a plug is captively mounted. The plug includes a part-spherical periphery which is complementary to a part-spherical seat formed in the tubular body. The plug may be rotated between the closed position shown and an open position in which the plug member stands up-right within the tubular body by application of finger pressure to the edge of the plug. The tubular body may comprise an outer tubular member and insert member as illustrated, or may be in the form of an integral plastics moulding.

Abstract: This invention provides for a quick-disconnect coupling and valve assembly which consists of a single-service coupling and valve assembly and a connector for cooperating therewith. The single-service coupling and valve assembly is comprised of two main parts, namely, a spout fitment for a flexible bag and a valve member which slidably fits within the spout for axial movement. The valve member is provided with an outwardly-opening socket for receiving the connector and this socket has at least one dispensing outlet in the base thereof. In use, the valve member is normally in closed position with the outlet disposed within the spout axially-outwardly of an inner seal between the spout and valve member. A one-way stop arrangement permits axial inward movement of the valve member relative to the spout but prevents axial outward movement, the inward movement opening the valve by moving the outlet inwardly beyond the spout.

Abstract: A system for dispensing liquid soap comprising a closed wall structure defining a container with a partition separating the container into a lower liquid soap reservoir and an upper refill compartment. Dispensing means is carried by the container for dispensing liquid soap from the reservoir. A refill well having a refill aperture therethrough provides communication between the reservoir and the refill compartment and is dimensioned to permit the free flow of liquid soap therethrough. A pusher member is disposed in the refill well and extends upwardly toward the upper refill compartment to contact a refill cartridge containing liquid soap which has an outwardly extending neck defining an outlet with a tubular drain adaptor in the refill cartridge in sealing relation with the neck providing communication between the inside and outside of the cartridge.

Abstract: A liquid soap dispensing system includes a closed soap container having a manually actuated dispensing pump carried therebeneath, the container being separated by a partition into a lower soap reservoir and an upper refill compartment, the latter adapted to enclose therein a removable refill cartridge and having a downwardly extending refill will with a plurality of keys upstanding from the bottom thereof. The cartridge has an outlet neck, the outer bottom surface of which has a like plurality of slots. The neck is closed by a pierceable membrane recessed therein and adapted to be received into the well so that a cartridge opening member pierces the membrane to accommodate free flow of liquid soap from the cartridge to the reservoir. The cartridge is entirely closed to define the liquid level in the reservoir at the bottom of the neck, and a drain hole in the reservoir wall above the bottom of the neck but below the tops of the keys prevents bootleg cartridges from being used in the soap dispenser.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tap for connection to a tube extending from a container for liquids. It includes a barrel having a substantially continuous hollow configuration open at one end and having an outlet opening in its sidewall. The open end of the barrel is adapted for fastening the barrel to the container. There is included a seat surrounding the outlet opening and complimentary plug extending into the interior of the barrel and carried by the closed opposite end of the barrel. At least a portion of the barrel is of a flexible thin-walled diaphragm-like configuration and is adapted to be inverted by a snap action from an open position to a closed position with the plug engaging the seat when in the closed position to shut off the flow of liquid through the tap.

Abstract: The a fluid-tight receptacle comprises a container with a neck portion, a cup-shaped member tightly engaged within the neck portion, a cap threadedly engaged with the neck portion, a resilient liner inside the cap, and a float member slidably and concentrically mounted within the cup-shaped member; the float member has a cup portion so dimensioned as to lie within the cup-shaped member so that tight engagement of the cap to the neck portion forces the rim of the cup-shaped member to sink in the resilient liner of the cap; this prevents fluid leakage from the container during transport or as a result of accidental tip of the container.

Abstract: The source of vacuum comprises a tubular body in which a piston which is combined with a piston rod is axially slidable. A seal is interposed between the rod and the body where the rod extends out of the body. A suction orifice is provided which is on the axis of or in the vicinity of the axis of the body and parallel to the axis. An arrangement is provided for holding the body and urging the piston to one end of the body in one hand. A communication passage is provided for putting the suction orifice in communication with a chamber defined between the piston and the body when the piston is depressed relative to the body.

Abstract: A container lid is released at a desired point in a sterilizing cycle with the actuating movement being provided by an expandable chamber having a quantity of sterilizing environment captured during the sterilizing cycle.

Abstract: An improved lid for covering containers, sucn as tumblers or the like, has a mouthpiece with at least a portion of the mouthpiece shaped to fit within the lips of a person drinking from the container. The mouthpiece has a valve therein operated by the drinker's lips or by the application of pressure on opposite sides of resilient walled containers. The mouthpiece with valve on the lid prevents spilling of the liquid, if the container is accidentally dropped, precludes spilling of the liquid during the time the drinker is engaged in drinking the liquid from the container, even when the drinking is done under adverse conditions, and provides facilitated means for adding condiments to a hot beverage for consumption by a user. Features are further provided for more effectively securing the valve to preclude inadvertent spilling from "wave action" of the liquid within the container.

Abstract: A closure for a unit dose vial for oral administration of medication, comprising an elastomer stopper which seals the vial and affords a rim covering the lip of the vial, and a metal sealing ring crimped onto the vial, covering the stopper rim but exposing a self-venting self-sealing linear slit valve in the stopper, the sealing ring including an integral release tab allowing quick, convenient removal of both the ring and the stopper for oral administration of the vial contents.

Abstract: A vented top for a bacteria culture medium tube having a body with through openings to hold one or more tubes simultaneously. A cap closes off all openings or opens them together. Vent means enable automatic venting of gases generated by the bacteria.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in blood and like sampling comprises a container and a fitting closure. The blood can be transferred to and from the container without removal of the closure. The container has a shelf to provide a sealing surface for the bottom of the closure which is received in an upper portion of the container. The closure is provided with passageways and is removable from a closed position in which the passageways are sealed against the shelf and a position which allows passage of blood to and from the lower portion of the container. The upper portion of the container can be of larger diameter than the lower portion and can be either concentric or eccentrically located with respect to the lower portion. An adaptor for use with the apparatus is also disclosed which allows a blood sample to be aspirated directly from a vein into the container through closure.

Abstract: A catheter placement unit comprising a Y adapter with a side port for coupling a catheter tube to a fluid infusion unit and including a resilient sleeve within the axial bore of the Y adapter at the proximal end of the catheter placement unit through which a piercing needle or the like snugly passes in the initial assembled condition. A manually compressible mechanism circumscribes the resilient sleeve and, upon proper setting preferably before but also after venipuncture and needle removal, squeezes the resilient sleeve to firmly occlude the inside passage of the resilient sleeve to prevent fluid loss.