Abstract: A pressure controller device includes a housing accommodating a precision pressure regulator incorporating a first diaphragm operable upon a main valve provided between an inlet and an outlet in the housing. The regulator further includes a second diaphragm operable upon a flapper-nozzle arrangement to set the pressure of the working fluid discharged through the device. The housing further includes a resiliently loaded shuttle actuable by an operating handle connected thereto and externally protruding from the housing to operate the second diaphragm and the flapper-nozzle arrangement. Manual operation of the handle, and resulting linear movement of the shuttle, effects movement of the second diaphragm and the flapper-nozzle arrangement and thus by pressure fluid to operate the first diaphragm and thus the main valve. Consequential variation in the pressure of the fluid delivered by the device is thus achieved by the shuttle overriding the operation of the diaphragms and thus the valve.

Abstract: A multistage proportional valve for controlling the pressure of a fluid inside a container includes a fluid outflow passageway having an exhaust opening, an actuatable fluid inflow passageway having an intake opening and an actuatable exhaust cover for selectively closing said exhaust opening. The fluid outflow passageway, actuatable fluid inflow passageway and actuatable exhaust cover are interconnected and configured such that in response to an actuating force reaching a first pre-determined threshold the valve displaces the exhaust cover to allow the fluid inside the container to exhaust there from through the fluid outflow passageway. In response to the actuating force reaching a second pre-determined threshold the valve displaces the fluid inflow passageway to allow pressurized fluid to flow there through inside the container.