Abstract: The present invention describes a valved dispensing spout for a fuel can or similar article including an outlet at one end and an inlet at the other end. At the inlet end of the spout is a valve housing having a valve such as a poppet valve slideably mounted therein and yieldably biased to a closed position by means of a spring. The valve is connected to a horizontal plunger via a link and the plunger extends through one wall of the valve housing and is pivoted at its outer end to a valve operating lever which can be moved up or down by finger pressure to open or close the valve.

Abstract: A lid with an adjustable "quillotine" type pouring arrangement, adapted to be mounted, in particular, on the primary color or paint containers for car bodywork and employed in paint stirring machines. The lid includes at least one component for fixing the lid on a color container; a pouring spout on the lid with an opening portion of this pouring spout being substantially planar; an operating lever which has a lower end pivotably hinged to an upper wall of the lid, and which lever is movable between a resting position and a depressed working position; and a sliding element which is also substantially planar and which is slidable in surface contact with the planar pouring spout opening portion so as to sealingly close the latter.

Abstract: A sink and faucet assembly is disclosed for use in an aircraft environment. The assembly includes a source of hot and cold water that is pressurized to dispense through the faucet and also contains a vent to purge the system when the aircraft is on the ground. The faucet has a control member which regulates the flow of hot and cold water into the faucet through a mixing chamber by rotating, and which initiates the flow of water from the source by actuating a switch to energize a solenoid valve when moved rectilinearly. The solenoid valve is also timed such that it stops the flow of water after a pre-determined time period after having been actuated.

Abstract: A dispensing device which includes two chambers, one for holding a resin and another for a hardener. Each chamber has an exit port formed in a neck which contains passageways leading to each of the chambers. The neck is equipped with external threads which mate with internal threads on a nozzle adjusting nut. A nozzle, which is carried by the nut can be moved from an open position to a closed position in which a portion of the nozzle's base closes the ports. A divider or tab projects from the neck at a location near and between the ports, and the nozzle has a slot to receive the divider. The divider serves to prevent mixing of the components until well after they exit the ports. The divider/slot arrangement further prevents mixing of the components by preventing relative rotation between the nozzle and the neck. Three separate sealing surfaces are formed on the base of the nozzle. One is cylindrical and seals against an O-ring carried by the neck.

Abstract: A post-mix beverage dispensing system has a structure for flushing the dispensing valve and its nozzle of syrup using diluent water from the water supply; the dispensing valve has a nozzle, syrup and water valves and an actuator for the syrup and water valves, a mounting block for the dispensing valve has water and syrup ports with inlets and outlets and normally closed disconnect valves in the outlet enabling removal of the dispensing valve from the block, a flush connector goes across the bottom of the block and is fluidly connected into the water and syrup ports, a normally closed flush valve is in the connector and has an external pushbutton actuator for opening the valve for connecting the water port to the syrup port to flush the syrup port disconnect valve, flow control, syrup valve and nozzle with water, and there is structure to prevent flow of flush water into the syrup supply line.

Abstract: Dispensing apparatus is attached to a container filled with a fluid and shipped with the container wherein during shipment the dispensing apparatus has two separate seals comprising an operable valve for opening and closing a first passageway, and a sealing member for closing a second passageway and the dispensing apparatus is locked in a closed position. A locking member is provided for preventing accidental movement of the dispensing apparatus and also to provide positive identification that the container has not been tampered with. A self generating pressure applying expandable pouch is located within the container to apply a substantially constant pressure on the fluid so that the fluid may be dispensed from the container.

Abstract: A self-sealing closure for drinking vessels is disclosed. This closure is comprised of (1) a detachable lid, which can be used to cover the receptacle of the drinking vessel, and which has a depressed area and at least one orifice within the depressed area; (2) a shutter matching said orifice; (3) means for resiliently holding the shutter against the orifice; and (4) rotatable means for pushing the shutter away from the orifice.

Abstract: A valved device for dispensing multiple closely spaced streams of liquid from a plurality of dispensing orifices. The device includes selectively actuatable valve needles associated with each of the dispensing orifices for controlling liquid flow from the orifices. A pair of oscillatable cam shafts, each having multiple cam surfaces of different configurations, controls actuation of the valve needles.

Abstract: A multiway gravity box and door assembly is capable of selectively storing, transporting and/or dispensing different particulate solid materials. The gravity box has a partition wall to separate the box into two separate compartments each of which communicates with a separate discharge opening from the gravity box. First and second doors are slidably movable in the respective openings and a third outer door overlies the first and second doors and is also slidably movable. Pins are selectively positionable to engage the outer door and either one or both of the first and second doors to selectively open or close the first and second doors when the outer door is opened or closed.

Abstract: A post-mix beverage dispensing system of a small size and capacity includes a minimal number of cabinet-mounted dispensing valve assemblies to be used in combination with a larger number of syrup valve adaptor assemblies. The adaptor assemblies are attached to removable syrup containers and are removable from the cabinet-mounted valve assemblies with the containers. The adaptor assemblies include syrup outlet tubes with flow-rate orifice plates matched to predetermined brix values of syrup flavors. A valve actuation assembly is provided which may selectively dispense either soda water alone or a carbonated post-mix beverage.

Abstract: A contact applicator head includes a plurality of needle valves which are each spring biased against a respective one of a plurality of valve seats, and a rotary cam actuator which when rotated retracts the needle valves away from the seats.

Abstract: To coat a material web of sheet, paper or another carrier material, a flowable coating material is conducted into a distributing chamber consisting of the inner space of a rotatable tube. The coating material is supplied to a wedge-shaped recess whose effective width may be adjusted by turning the tube, via a slot formed through the wall of the tube. The recess is joined in the housing block by a gap ending in an adjustable doctor gap along which the carrier material is moved. The dosing device permits a very accurate determination of the applied thickness of the coating material by fine adjustment.

Abstract: A kiln floor system having a plurality of sequentially operated, pivotally mounted trays capable of dumping a load of grain in a minimum of time. Typical field trays of the floor are coupled in pairs to a single air cylinder for economy of operation. The gear rack associated with the turning machine is independently adjustable to insure alignment of the gear rack. The floor includes stringer gage members to insure proper installation and alignment of the stringers. A wall panel is provided for updated restoration and automation of existing kiln floors.

Abstract: The delivery of charge material to the hearth of a pressurized blast furnace under the influence of gravity is accomplished without the necessity of changing the direction of material flow at a point exterior of the furnace. The rate of flow of the charge material, which moves in a vertical stream, is controlled by a metering device including a pair of overlapping register elements which define a variable size aperture which remains generally symmetrical with respect to the stream axis.

Abstract: A valve for a pressure bottle or vessel adapted to contain a dangerous fluid, such as a radioactive gas, can comprise two valve members in tandem which require actuation by separate operating members thereby eliminating the possibility for accidental or inadvertent opening. The main valve housing can be provided with a pressure equalization valve which opens when the bottle is immersed in a body of water at elevated water pressures to equalize the interior and exterior pressures while providing a water seal against escape of the bottle contents.

Abstract: A tap operated by a push button which acts to open a valve member which is biassed to the closed position, the valve member being for normal operation of the tap; also operated by the push button, but only on initial operation of the push button, is a plugging means which plugs the inlet of the tap and which after the initial operation remains out of the inlet. The arrangement ensures added protection against oxygen penetrating into a container fitted with the tap and is particularly useful for wine containers where the added protection ensures a longer shelf life. The use of a plugging means fitted tap avoids the necessity of special sealing equipment for the containers in the winery where containers are filled.

Abstract: Known apparatuses to inject liquids, in particular plastics into injection moulds have closure rods which remain in the gating when the closure system is opened. In the present apparatus the liquid passage always is completely free when the closure system is opened, because the closure rod can be totally retracted from the liquid passage. This can be accomplished in two ways: either the liquid passage extends in a bended manner or the closure rod has a side view in the configuration of a sector or a circle.

Abstract: A device for detachably coupling the orifice of a branchline to a conduit carrying a pressure medium having a plurality of discharge valves disposed spaced apart from each other along said conduit. Each of the valves has a discharge opening, and a closing element for each of said openings. A coupling device has the orifice disposed therein and is longitudinally displaceable along the conduit and connectable with the conduit by opening one of the discharge valves. The coupling device has a coupling element which is guided on the conduit and an automatically sealing coupling in the coupling position with the discharge valve at the pressure side for an automatic alignment with the orifice, and an actuator effective to actuate a respective one of the discharge valves in the coupling position of the coupling element.

Abstract: Apparatus for transferring material from one vacuum tight hopper to another includes funnel means having a valve member at one end adjacent the one hopper for controlling flow and valve means the other end of the funnel means for similarly controlling flow. Between the other end of the funnel means and the valve means there is provided collector door means movable between open and closed positions to prevent the material to be transferred from impinging on the sealing surfaces of the valve means.

Abstract: An angle valve is provided which is mountable on the exterior of a container having a container valve disposed therein and which includes a valve housing composed of a container-side connecting member having a front face and a channel formed therein opening onto the front face for communication with the container and a loading-side connecting member disposed at an angle to the container-side connecting member, which has a channel formed therethrough and which is capable of communication with a loading line. The valve housing further includes an intermediate connecting member having a receiving chamber formed therein which establishes communication between the channels of the loading-side and the container-side connecting members, with the loading-side connecting member disposed to discharge into the receiving chamber tangentially relative to the container-side connecting member.

Abstract: A dispenser device for liquids including a metering chamber having a valve controlled inlet port and a valve controlled outlet port. An actuator is connected to the two valves to move them between fill and discharge conditions and is arranged to cause the inlet valve to close before opening the outlet valve during transfer from the fill to the discharge condition. The actuator includes a cylinder movable over a piston fixed to the body of the device and the valves respond to movement of the cylinder between two extreme positions corresponding to the fill and discharge conditions respectively. A biasing system urges the cylinder into the fill position at which the inlet valve is open and the outlet valve is closed, and a time delay arrangement operates to retard movement of the cylinder during part of its travel from the discharge position to the fill position.

Abstract: A device for detachably coupling the orifice of a branchline to a conduit carrying a pressure medium having a plurality of discharge valves disposed spaced apart from each other along said conduit. Each of the valves has a discharge opening, and a closing element for each of said openings. A coupling device has the orifice disposed therein and is longitudinally displaceable along the conduit and connectable with the conduit by opening one of the discharge valves. The coupling device has a coupling element which is guided on the conduit and an automatically sealing coupling in the coupling position with the discharge valve at the pressure side for an automatic alignment with the orifice, and an actuator effective to actuate a respective one of the discharge valves in the coupling position of the coupling element.

Abstract: A device for detachably coupling the orifice of a branchline to a line carrying a pressure medium and having a plurality of discharge valves spaced apart from each other in the line wall, the coupling being carried out by means of a coupling device which is movable over the length of the line and contains the orifice and opens one of the discharge valves. The discharge valves are mounted in the line with magnetically actuating opening members and the coupling device is provided with a coupling element guided thereon and is provided with an automatically sealing coupling member in the coupling position with the discharge valve at the pressure side for an automatic alignment with the orifice, and an actuator which magnetically cooperates with the opening member and the coupling member.

Abstract: A normally closed container containing liquid therein and having a single pinch valve secured thereto. The pinch valve releasably clamps a portion of a resilient liquid discharge tube and also releasably clamps a portion of a resilient inlet tube which introduces air into the container in discharging liquid out of the container. The timing of opening and closing of two tubes with respect to operation of the pinch valve is determined as desired.

Abstract: An angle valve is provided which is mountable on the exterior of a container having a container valve disposed therein and which includes a valve housing composed of a container-side connecting member having a front face and a channel formed therein opening onto the front face for communication with the container and a loading-side connecting member disposed at an angle to the container-side connecting member, which has a channel formed therethrough and which is capable of communication with a loading line. The valve housing further includes an intermediate connecting member having a receiving chamber formed therein which establishes communication between the channels of the loading-side and the container-side connecting members, with the loading-side connecting member disposed to discharge into the receiving chamber tangentially relative to the container-side connecting member.

Abstract: A hopper gate mechanism for opening and closing the bottom opening of a hopper containing vehicle. The mechanism typically includes two doors hinged along the longitudinal axis of the associated vehicle and fluid pressure actuated motor means for selectively actuating latching members normally employed to maintain the doors in a closed position.

Abstract: A device for automatically closing the fine material pan on a manure spreader is disclosed wherein, after being released to a clean-out position, the motion of the fluid endgate is utilized to return the fine material pan to its normal operating position. A lost motion linkage connects the fine material pan to the arm of the fluid endgate. A retraction of the fluid endgate to a transport position through manipulation of a tractor's hydraulic system effects a closing of the fine material pan without the operator having to dismount the tractor.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention a railway hopper car unloading arrangement is provided, including at least one hopper having hopper slope sheets extending downwardly and inwardly. A standard outlet frame is attached to the inner ends of the hopper slope sheets. A removable adapter is attached to the outlet frame. The adapter includes an adapter mounting flange and a divider extending longitudinally of the car, which divides the adapter into a pair of transversely spaced adapter outlets or chutes. The adapter further includes adapter side walls and end walls, the lower ends of which define transversely spaced adapter chutes. A generally horizontally extending gate is movable between open and closed positions relative to each adapter chute. In addition, the adapter includes boot attachment means located below each adapter outlet for attachment of an unloading boot for each adapter outlet.

Abstract: A device for opening and closing bottom outlets of a plurality of cargo pockets arranged in rows, preferably in holds in bulk cargo ships, conveyors being arranged beneath the pockets. A guide arrangement extends longitudinally along the bottom of a row of pockets and carries covers for the bottom outlets of the pockets. Said covers are journalled for horizontal movement in the longitudinal direction of the guide arrangement between opened and closed positions. At least one carriage can be moved parallel to said guide arrangement and can be driven forward to an arbitrary cover. Said carriage is provided with a drive movable from an inoperative position to a position in which they are engaged with the chosen cover in order to, during subsequent movement of the carriage in either direction, move the cover to an open or closed position. Then the drive can be moved to the inoperable position in order to allow the movement of the carriage to another cover.

Abstract: A thermo-insulated drinking cup covered by a detachable lid; the lid having a depressed top area and an orifice. A valve closing said orifice is actuated by a rotating thumb-controlled lever. The lever is effective when rotated in either direction in order to accommodate right-handed or left-handed handling of the cup.

Abstract: The invention relates to a small container for liquid gases for filling of the various types of gas lighters having various forms of intake valves. This is achieved by the small container for liquid gas according to the invention, wherein the bottom member and the top member at the two ends of the container are each provided with a self-acting, normally closed outlet valve and these two valves are different from each other and are adapted for filling-up the gas tanks of different types of gas lighters.The container is also provided with a single cover cap to cover one or the other end of the container and the respective valve selectively. The container and the cover cap are provided with matched snap-in portions in one embodiment. In a further embodiment the cover cap and the ends of the container are provided with members for joining the cover cap and the end of the container in a relatively tight sliding fit and thus to secure the cover cap over the valve which it is desired to cover.

Abstract: A mechanism for opening and shutting hinged doors, having special utility for discharge doors on silage elevators remotely operable by control ropes, which mechanism is firmly held in both open or closed position by gravity force holding the mechanism against a stop element which employ a door operating pulley, to one side of which is attached a control arm to open and close the door. The pulley is caused to rotate slightly past the point where said control arm is at its uppermost position when the door is opened and lowermost position when the door is closed and the stop means on said pulley prevents further rotation so that the door is held both open and shut by the force of gravity thereon.

Abstract: A gravity motivated hopper with the capacity to alleviate arching of granular material contained in the hopper. The hopper has a lower section defining a flow path which is vertically oriented with vertically decreasing horizontal cross-sectional areas leading to a bottom opening. In the proximity of the bottom opening is a first gate mechanism. The first gate is located below the critical arching cross-sectional flow area of the granular material, and functions to restrain the material during charging of the hopper and hopper transport, or permit flow of the material from the hopper during hopper discharge. Placed above the bottom gate is a second gate mechanism. The second gate is placed above the critical arching cross-sectional flow area for the particular granulated material.

Abstract: One end of a resiliently flexible valve stem is supported in a coaxially aligned, axially adjustable, socket means and mounts a ball at its other end for normally closing the seat of an outlet orifice of a nozzle. A portion of the valve stem intermediate its ends is operatively associated with a laterally reciprocable operator bar for selectively effecting flexure of the valve stem to displace the valve ball on its seat to open the orifice to release a fluid to be dispensed through the nozzle. A plurality of such valve assemblies are actuable by a common operator bar and the adjustment means of each valve can be selectively manipulated to render one or more of the valves inoperable to establish a desired pattern of flow of fluids from the valves which remain operable, or to vary the time sequence of operation of the valves proportionally to the degree of adjustment of the individual valves, or to vary flow rates.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates generally to fluid dispenser valves.