Abstract: The present application relates to a system for evacuating fluid from a flexible container. The system includes a spout connected to a flexible container. A passageway within the spout is in fluid communication with an inside of the flexible container, and the passageway has a top end and a bottom end. An evacuation facilitating structure is positioned proximate the bottom end of the passageway and has a fluid channel therethrough. The evacuation facilitating structure blocks portions of the wall of the flexible container from entering the bottom end of the passageway and preventing fluid from evacuating the container via the passageway.

Abstract: A present application relates to a valve assembly for use with a liquid container. The valve assembly includes a spout containing an opening to the liquid container, the spout being configured to form a liquid-tight seal with a housing. A sleeve extends through the housing toward the liquid container through the opening. A valve is secured to the housing and extending into the opening through the sleeve and forming a liquid-tight seal with the sleeve. The valve includes a body portion with a cutaway section and a leg fixed to the valve by a hinge, wherein the leg is configured to flex outwards against the sleeve upon insertion of a tube into the valve causing the cutaway section to open a flow channel to allow liquid to flow through the valve assembly.

Abstract: A duckbill valve includes a flexible and hollow body having a first shape upon being formed by injection molding. The body in the first shape has a first opening at a first end and a second opening at a second end. The body is configured to be inverted into a second shape. The second shape has a first opening at a first end and has a slit at a second end. The slit is defined by lips that are pressed together to form a seal.

Abstract: Filtering assemblies to be used with a flowable material container. The assembly includes a filtering screen. The assembly further includes filtering media. The filtering media includes activated carbon. The filtering media includes dissolvable material. The assembly further includes a filtering basket to contain the filtering media. The assembly further includes a valve assembly. The assembly further includes a spout with a filter. The spout further includes a removable filter. The removable filter is configured to extend beyond the end of the spout. The removable filter includes circulation holes. The removable filter is configured to be pushed into the spout by a closure cap. The removable filter is configured to contain filtering media.

Abstract: A dual port dispenser button system which has an elastic receptacle button that includes a first latch receiver and a second latch receiver. The system includes a dispenser with a first dispensing port and a second dispensing port. The system includes a first valve including a first valve seal member and a first button latch and a second valve including a second valve seal member and a second button latch. When the button is depressed, the first valve seal member moves from a first position in which it seals the first dispensing port to a second position in which it does not seal the first dispensing port and the second valve seal member moves from a second position in which it seals the second dispensing port to a second position in which it does not seal the second dispensing port.

Abstract: The invention provides a hand held dispenser which has an upper enclosure for holding material to be dispensed, the upper enclosure having an open end. The invention has a lower dispenser which is connected to the upper enclosure and which has a dispensing opening which is selectively sealed by a valve. The valve has a seal end and a valve stem end, the valve stem end operatively engaged to an elastic button. When the button is depressed, the valve seal end is pushed out of the dispensing opening, to allow material to be dispensed from the hand held dispenser and when the button is released, it elastically returns to an undepressed position, closing the dispensing opening.

Abstract: The invention provides a hand held dispenser which has an upper enclosure for holding material to be dispensed, the upper enclosure having an open end. The invention has a lower dispenser which is connected to the upper enclosure and which has a dispensing opening which is selectively sealed by a valve. The valve has a seal end and a valve stem end, the valve stem end operatively engaged to an elastic button. When the button is depressed, the valve seal end is pushed out of the dispensing opening, to allow material to be dispensed from the hand held dispenser and when the button is released, it elastically returns to an undepressed position, closing the dispensing opening.

Abstract: A duckbill valve includes a flexible and hollow body having a first shape upon being formed by injection molding. The body in the first shape has a first opening at a first end and a second opening at a second end. The body is configured to be inverted into a second shape. The second shape has a first opening at a first end and has a slit at a second end. The slit is defined by lips that are pressed together to form a seal.

Abstract: A dual port dispenser button having an elastic receptacle button which is constructed and arranged, when depressed, to actuate two valves, each having a different function.

Abstract: A front push tap dispenser has a flow configuration and a sealed configuration. The tap comprises a tap body, a spring button member and a valve seal member, with the two members connected by a flexible stem having two ends, each end connected to the spring button member and the valve seal member. When in the sealed configuration the spring button holds the flexible stem and the valve seal member so the valve seal member is sealingly engaged to the inner wall of the dispensing port. When in the flow configuration the spring button is depressed, which causes the flexible stem and the valve seal to move downwardly to unseal the dispensing port to allow fluid to be dispensed. When the spring button is released, it elastically springs back to the undepressed position, causing the valve seal member to sealingly engage with the inner wall of the dispensing port.

Abstract: A spout having a one piece molded body including two or more quick disconnect ports, the quick disconnect ports constructed and arranged to attach two or more attachments. The spout can have two, three or more ports. The ports can be for a liquid and a gas, for example coffee and an air line to recover condensate and recirculate the recovered coffee. The spout can be heat welded to a bag containing a liquid. The ports can have different diameters to facilitate the attachments.

Abstract: A dispenser having a container for holding solid material to be dispensed. A metering dispenser is connected to the open bottom end of the container, the metering dispenser further including a button connected to a slide, the slide having a metering chamber which slides horizontally in a slide chamber. The slide chamber has an upper opening in communication with the open bottom end of the container and the slide chamber has a lower dispensing opening. The solid material fills metering chamber which is sized to hold a predetermined amount of the solid material, the solid material filling the metering chamber by gravity feed when the button is in the closed position, in which the metering chamber is in communication with the upper opening in the slide chamber. The solid material is dispensed when the button is depressed to slide the metering chamber over the lower dispensing opening.

Abstract: A present application relates to a valve assembly for use with a liquid container. The valve assembly includes a spout containing an opening to the liquid container, the spout being configured to form a liquid-tight seal with a housing. A sleeve extends through the housing toward the liquid container through the opening. A valve is secured to the housing and extending into the opening through the sleeve and forming a liquid-tight seal with the sleeve. The valve includes a body portion with a cutaway section and a leg fixed to the valve by a hinge, wherein the leg is configured to flex outwards against the sleeve upon insertion of a tube into the valve causing the cutaway section to open a flow channel to allow liquid to flow through the valve assembly.

Abstract: The inventive provides an upright dispenser which has an attachment end for attaching the dispenser to a container for holding material to be dispensed, the attachment end having a passageway which communicates with the container, a dispensing tub having upper and lower through holes which connect to the attachment end passageway, the upper through holes providing a vent and the lower through hole providing a path for the material to be dispensed. The attachment end passageway has a sealing flange positioned below the upper and lower through holes in the dispensing tube. The attachment end has a top end with an elastic button, the elastic button being connected to a valve stem, the valve stem extending in the passageway and having a valve end which sealing engages with the sealing flange when the elastic button is in an undepressed position.

Abstract: A front push tap dispenser has a flow configuration and a sealed configuration. The tap comprises a tap body, a spring button member and a valve seal member, with the two members connected by a flexible stem having two ends, each end connected to the spring button member and the valve seal member. When in the sealed configuration the spring button holds the flexible stem and the valve seal member so the valve seal member is sealingly engaged to the inner wall of the dispensing port. When in the flow configuration the spring button is depressed, which causes the flexible stem and the valve seal to move downwardly to unseal the dispensing port to allow fluid to be dispensed. When the spring button is released, it elastically springs back to the undepressed position, causing the valve seal member to sealingly engage with the inner wall of the dispensing port.

Abstract: The invention provides a hand held dispenser which has an upper enclosure for holding material to be dispensed, the upper enclosure having an open end. The invention has a lower dispenser which is connected to the upper enclosure and which has a dispensing opening which is selectively sealed by a valve. The valve has a seal end and a valve stem end, the valve stem end operatively engaged to an elastic button. When the button is depressed, the valve seal end is pushed out of the dispensing opening, to allow material to be dispensed from the hand held dispenser and when the button is released, it elastically returns to an undepressed position, closing the dispensing opening.

Abstract: The inventive provides an upright dispenser which has an attachment end for attaching the dispenser to a container for holding material to be dispensed, the attachment end having a passageway which communicates with the container. The upright dispenser also has a dispensing tube, the dispensing tube having upper and lower through holes which connect to the attachment end passageway, the upper through holes providing a vent and the lower through hole providing a path for the material to be dispensed. The attachment end passageway has a sealing flange positioned below the upper and lower through holes in the dispensing tube. The attachment end has a top end with an elastic button, the elastic button being connected to a valve stem, the valve stem extending in the passageway and having a valve end which sealing engages with the sealing flange when the elastic button is in an undepressed position.

Abstract: Squeezable plastic tubes which have a flip-top closure cap with a finger recess are provided by a method which aligns indicia on labeling of the tube with the finger recess, the labeling being either a wrap-around label or a label applied on the front and/or back wall of the tube. The indicia is centered on or opposite to a visually desired graphics portion of the label. The closure cap is applied to a collapsible plastic cylinder followed by applying a label such that the indicia is aligned with or opposite to an imaginary surface line which is parallel with the longitudinal axis of the cylinder and passes through the center of the finger recess of the closure cap. The open end of the plastic cylinder, after filling the cylinder with contents to be dispensed therefrom, is sealed in a direction perpendicular to a plane defined by the center of the finger recess and the longitudinal axis, by alignment of sealing means with the indicia, to form a filled squeezable plastic tube.

Abstract: The machine of the present invention is a means for manufacturing thermoplastic tubes from hollow thermoplastic sleeves by a variety of different manufacturing processes. The machine is a single apparatus having an indexing table with a plurality of mandrels for holding hollow thermoplastic sleeves for the purpose of transporting the same around a closed manufacturing path. The manufacturing path of the machine of the present invention is a series of stations which are mechanical devices for carrying out the manufacturing steps necessary to produce tubes from thermoplastic blank sleeves. The stations of the manufacturing path are modular so that they may be removed, added or rearranged; may be optionally connected to a process logic controller and may optionally have sensors for information feedback to the PLC device.