Abstract: Means for reducing hoop stress in a silo cell comprising a grain tube located in the lower part of the silo cell, the wall of the grain tube having apertures at the silo base allowing entry of granular material into the grain tube, and a restrictor below the apertures restricting the material flow so that when the silo cell first discharges the material, all of that discharge is through the upper ends of the tube, downwardly through the tube and outwardly from the silo cell through valve means beyond the lower end of the tube and restrictor.

Abstract: A closure for containers comprises an automatic opening-closing mechanism and an outside closure member having a pour opening. The automatic opening-closing mechanism includes a plug member having a centrally formed air introduction hole and a plurality of liquid discharge ports formed around the air introduction hole, a first valve member for opening and closing the liquid discharge ports and a second valve member for opening and closing the air introduction hole.

Abstract: A fluid container has a housing arranged in a box-like fashion with two square side walls, each having four edges and four corners, two top walls adjoining one another at a corner and extending between adjacent corresponding edges of the sidewalls, and two bottom walls adjoining one another at an opposite corner and extending between the two remaining adjacent corresponding sides of the side walls. Each of the top walls include a threaded neck opening to which are attached sealing cap members. A carrying handle is attached to one top wall and the remaining top and bottom walls have finger notches to facilitate grasping of the container. The container can rest on either bottom wall and can be filled from the opening in the opposing top wall or emptied from the opening in the adjacent top wall.

Abstract: A water treatment system and related components for reducing contaminants in normal drinking water are provided. An enlongated tube has first and second ends and is connected with an interference fit at its first end to the interior surface of a neck of a conventional bottle. Water treatment media is disposed within the tube adjacent its second end, such as activated charcoal, silver impregnated media, ion exchange resins, or calcium and/or magnesium leaching material. The tube includes a flange adjacent its first end which minimizes the possibility that water will enter the bottle except by flowing through the open first end of the tube.

Abstract: A spray head containing a gear pump for drawing liquid from a container and forcing same out of a nozzle. The gear pump comprises a pair of operatively engaged gears each rotatable about horizontal axes transverse to the axis of the nozzle. A ratchet wheel is axially secured to one of the gears and the ratchet and its gear are intermittently rotated about their common axis by a pawl member which is attached to a manually operable trigger which moves in a plane within the plane of the gears.

Abstract: The venting apparatus for liquid-filled systems permits accumulated air to automatically escape from the system. The venting apparatus comprises a bottom member with an internal bore containing a spring-loaded plunger movable to open and close an air venting channel, and a top member with a protective cap. The air venting channel in the bottom member communicates with air exit openings leading to the ambient atmosphere.

Abstract: A dual orifice dispensing closure comprises a body with first and second orifices therein, the orifices being of different sizes. Lid members are hinged to the body such that plugs on the lids may be selectively positioned in or removed from orifices in the closure. A hook-shaped tab provides an interengagement between the lid members so that raising the lid member to uncover the larger of the plugged orifices will at the same time lift the other lid member which has a plug closing the smaller orifice. Accordingly, both orifices are open so that the smaller orifice can providing a venting function upon dispensing of liquid from the larger orifice.

Abstract: A disposable apparatus for sterilizing fluid and dispensing it includes a bag, a filter element, a conduit element, and a plurality of dispensing elements serially communicating with each other for providing a sterile fluid dispensing path that can be serially opened and closed. Methods are also provided for filling such apparatus in conjunction with a closed environment of an assembly having at least one mixing vessel, a reservoir container, a filling area, a filter element, and a plurality of storage elements interfacing the filling area.

Abstract: S-shaped opening and closing element for controlling the flow of a fluid or body (powder, granulate) and adaptable to any form of package or fitting containing fluids, characterized in that its shape in two S-bends permits both an instantaneous stoppage of the flow of the fluids and an instantaneous flow of said fluids; this, as a function of the given position, by manual or mechanical traction on the element. The S-shape ensures very effective fluid-tightness, without supplementary elements. The opening and closing element can be employed for controlling flow from a container having a supporting device for the element. The container can have more than one compartment.

Abstract: A disposable system for enabling a succession of individuals to be supplied with a sterile medical solution during operative and other procedures utilizes a number of spaced apart, penetrable elastomerically sealed funnels branching from an outlet from the solution container or an attached drip chamber. A standard sterile administration set having a spike end may be inserted into the seal of a first funnel to provide flow to a first individual. After the first procedure is completed the conduit to the first funnel is clamped off and the sequence repeated, but with the spike end of a second administration set inserted for supply to solution to a second individual. This sequence may be repeated for a selectable number of branches, enabling valuable solution from a container to be used with minimum wastage but without danger of cross-contamination.

Abstract: A multiple orifice closure for attachment to a container for dispensing product, usually in the form of a liquid, at different rates. The closure includes a cap incorporating the larger orifice and an annular skirt having a container attachment such as threads or a snap bead. Two lids are hinged to the closure; one is an intermediate lid which covers the cap top and contains the second smaller orifice. The other lid is a top lid which acts to close the smaller orifice on the intermediate lid.

Abstract: A molded plastic cap suitable for large condiment bottles. The cap is of the type which are threaded onto the mouth of the bottle and contains an inner sealing liner. The sealing liner is compressed by the cap against the bottle mouth upon application thereto. The sealing liner cap includes a reinforcing bridge portion and flat circular land portion for press sealing the liner against the bottle rim mouth. The bridge portion includes ribs which are substantially flush with the land portion on the inside surface. The configuration of the cap assembly provides a structure which is attractive in appearance and is free of dimensional distortions.

Abstract: An adjustable dispensing closure including a body member provided with an opening and a lid member formed with a plurality of apertures of different sizes. The lid member is rotatable relative to the body member to permit regulated dispensing of the contents of the container. The lid member is held relative to the closure body by complementary annular rings for rotation through a full 360 degrees between closed and selected open positions.

Abstract: A plastic container with an integral spout comprising a hollow body, a neck having an outer wall and an inner wall formed with internal threads and a spout connected to the inner wall and extending outwardly of the container. The container is formed by blow molding to form the hollow body, a neck forming portion extending from the hollow body and a spout forming portion extending from the neck forming portion. Thereafter, the neck forming portion is heated and the spout is moved inwardly of the hollow body to reform the neck forming portion into the inner and outer wall. Thereafter, the threads are pressed internally on the inner wall of the neck. Alternatively, the threads may be formed during the blow molding.

Abstract: A venting type container to relieve pressurized carbonated liquids and the like without discharging the liquid therefrom while equalizing the interior container pressure with atmospheric pressure including in combination a flexible wall container for receiving the liquid and adapted to operatively receive a removable dispensing cap assembly which when brought into full threaded engagement with said dispensing cap assembly redefines the opening to said container; and a depressurization sealing unit which is operatively received on the dispensing cap assembly in sealing engagement to seal and contain the liquid within the container and define an interior cavity oriented between the dispensing cap assembly and the depressurization sealing unit.

Abstract: A first container having a first material therein has a piercing tip on a dispensing member which is movable relative to the container to control flow from the container. The first container has a movable portion for facilitating introduction of air into the container. A second container having a second material therein has an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is closed and adapted to be pierced by said tip to facilitate introduction of the first material into the second container.

Abstract: Distribution members of a spreading device are disposed closely adjacent to each other. The distance between the points of closest approach of the distribution members being about two centimeters with the outside diameter of each distribution member being about thirty-five centimeters. Flow of material to each distribution member of the spreading device is controlled by a delivery member which comprises dosing plates that are independently displaceable relatively to each other and to the bottom of the device's hopper. The dosing plates and the hopper's bottom have openings which cooperate with one another in an adjustable manner which makes it possible to adjust independently the position of the delivery of material to the distribution member both in radial and circumferential directions, and to adjust the size of the openings.

Abstract: A liquid filling machine has a plurality of discharge nozzles for simultaneously filling a plurality of containers. Each nozzle is connected to a manifold and has a restriction. A discreet pressure sensor is connected to each nozzle upstream from its restriction, and a solenoid valve is provided for each nozzle. A programmable device is connected to each pressure sensor and each valve for calculating a number indicative of fill time and closing each valve when the number is reached.

Abstract: A system for handling fluent solid material includes a material collecting hopper having a bottom provided with several discharge openings, ducts for delivering material from all the discharge openings into a transfer hopper that has one or more bottom outlets. An upright feed conduit with a feed valve is connected to each bottom outlet. If there are two or more bottom outlets at least one may connect to a bypass conduit with a bypass feed valve. A moistening chamber receives liquid at a controlled rate, and material from a feed conduit goes directly into the moistening chamber while material from a bypass conduit does not. Each conduit is provided with a material flow transducer that controls the position of the feed valve in response to the sensed volume of material flowing through the conduit so as to closely control the rate at which material flows from the conduit. Each feed valve or bypass feed valve may be closed so as to load a transport vehicle either with dry material or with moistened material.

Abstract: A sealing cap is provided for use in conjunction with safety storage containers and the like, which provides automatic venting and relief of interior vacuum, including low interior pressure resulting from contraction of the contents of the storage container, and from removal of liquid contents from the container. The cap provides a secure closure for a first opening in the container through which contents may be added or removed, while simultaneously providing the aforedescribed venting function. Incorporation of the present invention with a storage container having a second fluid dispensing opening avoids the necessity of providing an alternate or specialized air vent to admit air and prevent a vacuum build-up during dispensing of the contents. In one embodiment, the device is particularly immune to the effect of corrosive fluids stored within the container.

Abstract: Provided by this invention is an improved apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of fluent material by aspiration into a stream of pressurized gas by regulating the gas pressure downstream from the point of admission of the fluent material thereinto independently of the gas pressure at its source. One regulator regulates the gas pressure and velocity prevailing in a gas and fluent material mixing chamber downstream from a fluent material aspirator and the other regulator regulates the gas pressure closely adjacent the downstream end of the fluent material aspirator. Each regulator can be adjusted to vary the flow of fluent material into the gas stream without need for varying gas flow conditions upstream from the fluent material aspirator.

Abstract: A container lid such as a lid for a parmesan cheese container or the like, having a plurality of independently operative openings which is formed of a one piece two layer central bulk access and peripheral crescent-shaped broadcast construction, and which provides a substantially airtight seal for the container, which permits the container to be repeatedly and readily opened and closed, and which selectively permits bulk removal and access to the interior of the container, or the broadcast of the contents of the container through one or more limited access openings in the closure.

Abstract: A weighing machine is disclosed that accepts product from a source, segregates it into discrete quantities, and combines a number of the discrete quantities into a group that closely approximates a target weight. The machine includes a feeder means that selectively transports product from the source. Accumulator means receive product from the feeder means and discharge discrete quantities of product therefrom. Weighing means accept product from the accumulating means and determine the weights thereof. Divertor means receive product from the weight sensing means and direct it in one of a plurality of directions. Holding means receive product from the divertor means and retain the product until it is selectively discharged. Collecting means receives product from the holding means, consolidates it, and directs it to another location.

Abstract: A hand powered liquid atomizer has a pistol-like housing with a union nut supported at the free, lower end of a handle part thereof so that the nut may be screwed onto a liquid vessel. The nut is supported on the housing by a holding part. The holding part is made of an elastic material and is stepped. It has a cylindrical part with a large diameter joined by a ring-like shoulder with a cylindrical headpiece having a middle hole and a diameter smaller than the large diameter. A pocket in the handle part of the housing is stepped in a way matching the step of the holding part, and has a first part which receives the cylindrical part of the holding part and which is joined by an annular step with a second part having a smaller diameter which receives the headpiece. The step has therethrough at least one air inlet hole which communicates with the outside air, and the shoulder has therethrough an air inlet hole which communicates with the inside of the vessel.

Abstract: A two-piece spout and stopper for thin, volatile liquids, including an adapter piece to be threaded onto the neck of a bottle and a spout piece which threads into the adapter piece. Vent and pouring holes are provided in widely spaced array. The threads are sealed but allowed to be wetted by the fluid when pouring liquid. The shape of the surfaces is such as to minimize surface adhesion or trapping of liquid when the spout is closed.

Abstract: A seed supply system for a multiple row sower comprises a main seed hopper connected to a plurality of sower units by seed supply ducts. The main hopper has a seed distributor that divides a supply of seed uniformly between the seed supply ducts as seed flows out by gravity. The hoppers of each sower unit are provided with partitions that can be moved up or down to adjust the seed volume contained within the hopper. The partitions can then be adjusted so that the volume of seed contained within a sower unit hopper and its associated seed duct is equal to the volumes of each other sower unit hopper and the associated seed duct. By equalizing the volumes in this way all hoppers will run out of seed essentially simultaneously.

Abstract: Apparatus and a method for applying coextensive lines or dots of an adhesive comprising an airless, solenoid-operated, adhesive spray applicator having a plurality of individual applicators within a single housing including a flow distribution arrangement, and a transverse, internally-mounted filter. The filter may be removed and replaced without disturbing the flow lines. Virtually any spray pattern may be applied by staggering rows of applicators and electronically controlling the operation of the individual applicators.

Abstract: An improved distribution feeder of circular disc type, for receiving articles at the central portion and exhausting them from a plurality of outlets at the periphery, having the upper surface provided with a slope highest at the center and slanting down toward the periphery and a vibrator for imparting vertical and rotational vibration to the distribution feeder, thereby facilitating free movement of the articles to eliminate undesirable accumulation of the articles at the closed outlets.

Abstract: A device for use with a container for liquid, such as a coffee pot, having a neck which defines an opening. The device comprises a sleeve adapted to fit in sealing relationship with the neck. A funnel member is disposed within the sleeve and is movable within the sleeve between a first position and a second position. The funnel member is in the first position when the container is in an upright position whereby liquid can be introduced into the container through the funnel member and the escape of vapors from liquid contained in the container through the sleeve is substantially restricted. The funnel member is in the second position when the container is tipped to pour liquid therefrom whereby liquid in the container can flow past the funnel member between the sleeve and the funnel member.

Abstract: A detachable mixing chamber is constructed and arranged to receive a plurality of fluid components from a source thereof for forming a fluid such as a foam to be discharged therefrom. The chamber includes a core having a bore therein and a plurality of inlet openings arranged in communication with the bore for supplying the fluid components from such source to the bore and a plurality of compressed Belleville washers for maintaining the core under a restraining force in an axial and radial direction. The chamber is removably secured to a dispensing apparatus in a manner to be accessible from the outside thereof for detachment therefrom.

Abstract: A portable container for use in handling sludge. The container has a bottom wall and enclosing walls. The bottom wall has drainage areas for passing liquid from sludge placed in the container. The bottom wall is shaped to direct liquid from the sludge to the drainage areas.

Abstract: Dispensing apparatus for a flexible container, including a closure for the container and an expansible bladder associated with the closure and adapted to fit within the container to expand and displace the dispensed contents. The closure has two openings, one at which it is attached to the container and the other forming an outlet for dispensing. A conduit extends from the bladder into the closure and communicates to the exterior of the closure and container through one of the two openings. The outlet opening is constructed to allow the contents to flow only in a direction from the container during use and a check valve allows flow through the conduit only into the bladder.

Abstract: A mounting structure for the support of a granulate hopper on the injection unit of an injection molding machine by means of which the hopper can be selectively attached to a horizontally oriented injection unit and a vertically oriented injection unit, the structure comprising a vertical primary charge chute and an inclined secondary charge chute leading into the plastification cylinder, and a direct attachment of the hopper base formation to a primary horizontal mounting face of a horizontally oriented injection unit, or an attachment of the same hopper formation to the horizontal upper face of an inclined hollow adapter post aligned with the secondary charge chute of a vertically oriented injection unit. To the hopper is clamped a hopper base which is slidable on a transferrable horizontal guide plate.

Abstract: A pungent liquid dispensing apparatus for repelling animals, such as dogs, which comprises a pair of connected housing sections forming an enlarged internal chamber. Within the internal chamber is to be located a flexible walled bladder. Within the bladder is to be located a quantity of the pungent liquid. Compressing movement of the pair of housing sections results in discharging of a stream of the pungent liquid through an outlet valve assembly. An appropriate inlet valve assembly is mounted within one of the housing sections to provide for resupply of the pungent liquid within the bladder.

Abstract: A dispenser of liquid from an inverted rigid screw neck container, the dispenser comprising a base with an upwardly directed socket to receive the container neck in a liquid tight manner, a port to discharge liquid to a threaded nose to be coupled to a tap, an air bleed arrangement to deliver atmospheric air through a stem and a one way valve into a container when mounted on the base.

Abstract: A multiple casting head for the simultaneous casting of containers, such as electrical component housings with casting compound such as viscous resin, has a plurality of serially disposed discharge nozzles for respectively supplying casting compound to individual containers, and each discharge nozzle can be individually selectively opened and closed by a separately controlled valve for supplying selected differing amounts of casting compound to each container as needed.

Abstract: A first bottom discharge opening provided at the lower end of a storage vessel and fitted with a shut-off valve is adjacent to a second bottom discharge opening fitted with a shut-off valve. The second opening is joined to an emptying tube which extends vertically within the vessel and has a top orifice located at a level between 1/4 and 3/4 of the total height of the vessel. At the time of final emptying of the lower portion of the vessel through the first discharge opening, the curve of overpressures resulting from the emptying operation is close to the curve of static pressures generated by all the material stored within the vessel when this latter is full. Thus there is no need for any wall reinforcement and construction costs are appreciably reduced.

Abstract: A torch having oxygen and fuel gas passages from the torch butt to the torch tip, and valving apparatus for controlling the flow of oxygen and fuel gas from fuel and oxygen adapters on the torch butt to said passages, the valving apparatus including a valve seat, a valve stem, a first ball retained in a valve stem bore for rotation relative to the valve stem and abuttable against the valve seat to block fluid flow therethrough while the valve stem is spaced from the valve seat and a second ball rotatably mounted in a valve stem bore to abut against the first ball axially opposite the valve seat, and lubricant for being transferred from the second ball to the first ball as the valve stem rotates relative the first ball and the first ball rotates relative to the second ball, the first ball being of a substantially larger diameter than the second ball.

Abstract: An improvement in can covers having a peelable closure member of the pull tab or tear strip type is provided wherein the closure member is fabricated from a partially hydrolyzed ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer obtained from the hydrolysis of from about 50 percent to about 80 percent of the vinyl acetate groups of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer containing from about 40 percent to about 80 percent by weight of interpolymerized vinyl acetate.

Abstract: A refillable bottle for use in dispensing cleaning liquid into a toilet tank has openings at both ends, the bottle being installed in the tank by an integral hanger so that one opening, which is always above tank water level, is used for refilling the bottle in place in the tank with cleaning liquid and, being open after bottle installation, allows aerosols in the cleaning liquid to diffuse into the tank air so as to be forced from the tank by rising water in the tank to freshen the surroundings. The other opening has a dispensing valve mechanism mounted therein. Removable caps close the openings prior to installation. A float attached to a movable member of the valve mechanism actuates the mechanism so as to dispense a constant quantity of bottle liquid upon toilet flushing regardless of liquid level in the bottle or the refilling speed of the tank. The movable member has two oppositely disposed valve heads which mate with fixed valve seats formed in the valve mechanism.

Abstract: A flow controlling pouring spout has a hollow body portion provided with structure to facilitate attachment to the lip about a pouring opening of a container. A spout portion extending normally generally horizontally communicates with the interior of the container through the hollow body portion and has a baffle separating a lower pouring passage and an upper displacement air passage which extends from adjacent to the discharge opening of the spout to the inner end of the spout and has a displacement air opening from the inner end of the air passage to the inner end of the pouring passage. A hinged closure plug is mounted on the discharge end of the pouring spout. Swivel structure connects the pouring spout with the base portion to permit turning the spout from pouring orientation to non-pouring orientation. Stabilizing and flow controlling slidably cooperating flanges are provided on the swivelly related base portion and spout.

Abstract: Dispensing apparatus for a flexible container, including a closure for the container and an expansible bladder associated with the closure and adapted to fit within the container to expand and displace the dispensed contents. The closure has two openings, one at which it is attached to the container and the other forming an outlet for dispensing. A conduit extends from the bladder into the closure and communicates to the exterior of the closure and container through one of the two openings. The outlet opening is constructed to allow the contents to flow only in a direction from the container during use and a check valve allows flow through the conduit only into the bladder.

Abstract: A storage bin with multiple discharge openings is provided for particulate material. A bottom wall of the bin has a plurality of discharge openings, preferably an even number, with half of them spaced closer to the center line of the bin than the other half. More specifically, the outer half are positioned adjacent the side wall of the bin and the inner half are spaced from the center line by three-fourths of the distance from the center line to the side wall. Each half is also equally peripherally spaced around the bin. The bottom wall preferably is of inverted conical shape and can have a cone centrally positioned thereon, with the periphery of the cone located inwardly from the inner discharge openings. Portions of the cone periphery can be spaced from the bottom wall to enable particulate material to flow down below the cone to a central discharge duct having a valve which is opened from time-to-time.

Abstract: A dispenser body and a closure cap assembly for a container is presented which provides not only a closure for the container, except for communication with the dispenser, but also provides an air inlet operable upon the withdrawal or expulsion of the contents of the container so that air will be replenished therein to restore normal air pressure. The air inlet closes automatically when this has been accomplished to prevent leakage of the contents of the container.

Abstract: A funnel type container is mounted above a bar with its axis vertical. A stop member is mounted on a cross member in the container at the open top thereof and extends coaxially toward the bottom in spaced relation therewtih. A plurality of tubular members are telescopically slidably coupled to each other. One of the tubular members is slidable coupled to the open bottom of the container and extends therethrough whereby in extended position the tubular members extend a maximum distance from the container and direct ice cubes stored in the container to glasses on the bar. In a withdrawn position, the one of the tubular members extends into the container and abuts the stop member thereby blocking the bottom of the container and preventing ice cubes from leaving the container.

Abstract: A device for the accurate measuring and for holding a discharge of liquid quantities is described as well as apparatus for charging liquid into the device from bulk storage. The measuring and dispensing device includes a liquid compartment, a dispensing nozzle, a carrying handle and a nozzle operating means adjacent the carrying handle. The compartment includes a vent which is open and closed by the nozzle operating means with a float included in the vent to shut the vent when filling the device and when liquid in the device reaches a chosen level. A coupling nozzle is engageable with the first-mentioned nozzle for charging liquid into the device and includes a stem and a sliding sleeve which cooperate with the first nozzle to allow liquid flow from the coupling nozzle through the first nozzle and into the compartment for charging the compartment.

Abstract: A material handling device is disclosed for use in a material holding, or storage, receptacle. The device includes a vertically positioned discharge duct having spaced apertures therein with the bottom of the duct connected to a discharge access passage whereby granular, free flowing material, such as grain, within the receptacle, is withdrawn through the apertures and discharge duct in a manner such that the withdrawn material is from the top of the stored mass. The apertures are either staggered or opposed with respect to one another along the discharge duct. Material loading is through the top of the receptacle with the loading duct, or channel, being formed in a manner so as to prevent damage by impact to the material being introduced.

Abstract: A distributing head is attached to the lower end of the barrel of a reciprocating screw injector and carries three injection nozzles which inject molding material into three mold cavities during each injection cycle. The nozzles are supported within sleeves which are surrounded by tubular jackets adapted to receive a heat exchange liquid, the liquid being circulated successively through successive ones of the jackets.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dispenser comprising a housing having opposed first and second end walls each having therein respective parts rupturable from the end walls to provide respective first and second apertures, a first valve member mounted on the housing for movement relative to the first end wall between positions operative, when the first end wall is ruptured, to open and close the first aperture, a second valve member mounted on the housing for movement relative to the second end wall between positions operative, when the second end wall is ruptured, to open and close the second aperture, a plurality of spaced legs extending integrally from the first valve member in a direction extending away from the housing and adapted to support the housing in upright position on a supporting surface, to facilitate manual movement of the first valve member, and to afford flow of air between the legs and through the apertures and the housing after rupture of the end walls and when the valve members are in the open posit

Abstract: A fluid transfer device including a casing having a fluid port, a flexible wall container in the casing and communicating exteriorly thereof through the fluid port, a resiliently biased plunger in the casing urged toward the container for collapsing the latter and expelling fluid through the port, and valved discharge means for selectively controlling fluid discharge through the port.