Cover For Beer Cooler Aperture For Faucet Patents (Class 137/380)
  • Patent number: 8944094
    Abstract: This invention relates to an adaptor that is used with a valve fitment assembly used to dispense fluids or flowable materials from a container. The adaptor is utilized in conjunction with the valve fitment assembly to allow the fitment assembly to be used with a spout and valve assembly attached to a container holding fluid. This invention also relates to a process for dispensing fluid using the adapter described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Liqui-Box Corporation
    Inventor: James W. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8851445
    Abstract: A security valve having a body, a fluid control device, and an internal locking structure. The internal locking structure allows for partial movement of the valve before locking the fluid control device in place. A piping system based on the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Inventors: Glen Calla, Steven Calla
  • Patent number: 6761184
    Abstract: A water flushing unit and a method of making such comprising a cover plate that is to be mountingly installed to replace the original equipment cover plate of a shower valve. The modified cover plate has a drain conduit which includes an on/off valve. The on/off valve is in turn connected to a flexible tube. Flushing water from the shower valve is to be confined and directed through the drain pipe and, with the on/off valve in an open position, is caused to flow through the drain tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Inventor: Scott C. Jordan
  • Patent number: 6223768
    Abstract: An outlet dust cover, for attachment to a back plate having a wall plate formed to include an aperture within which a valve controlling gas flow in a pipe is received, includes a plate, a valve actuator located in the plate and arranged to be positioned adjacent the valve when the plate is positioned adjacent the wall plate, the valve actuator having a first state in which the valve is not actuated and a second state wherein the valve is actuated, and a vent extending through the cover and positioned to be in communication with the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Hoffman, David M. Garner
  • Patent number: 6164317
    Abstract: A cover assembly for a sewer vent pipe having a dome-shaped cap member with a plurality of brackets affixed to the inner surface thereof and extending to surfaces in a common plane for supporting the cap upon the open, upper end of the sewer pipe. A circular support plate is fixedly attached to the surfaces of the brackets and has a central opening for loose passage of a screw a first plurality of additional openings having centers lying on a circle concentrically surrounding the central opening, and a second plurality of additional openings. The screw is threadedly engaged with a tapped opening in a spreader plate. A plurality of lock arms extend through corresponding ones of said first plurality of additional openings. Each lock arm has an edge engaged in a notch in the periphery of the spreader plate, inhibiting rotation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Inventor: Robert Hanson
  • Patent number: 4408631
    Abstract: A faucet plug is disposed in a housing transversely to a tank wall so as to be rotatable about its longitudinal axis and is fixedly connected with its end portion outside of the tank to a bent discharge pipe, and a through-passage extends in the longitudinal axis of the faucet plug and terminates in a radial inlet portion which, when the discharge pipe is turned downwards, merges into the inlet opening of the housing. Preferably, at least one of the functional components is made of a self-sealing slidable plastics material and the other one is made of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Inventors: Klaus Uhlig, Marian Szczurek, Carlos Vilacha, Juergen Beckmann