Abstract: The invention consists of a system for storing, initiating curing of and dispensing a multicomponent curable material. One of the component materials is in the form of a multiplicity of discrete units surrounded by respective destructible layers of a substance which is nonreactive with the components. The system includes a device for rupturing the destructible layers while the components are being dispensed. This device may include a screen, roller pair, or heating element.

Abstract: A disposable container in the shape of a bottle made of molded polyethylene plastic serves as a reservoir for a photographic development liquid, that is circulated between the container's reservoir and a machine. The container has large planar sides to which good thermal contact is made by electrical heating pads for the purpose of heating the liquid within the container's reservoir. A substantially planar top surface of the container defines a central outlet aperture. This aperture connects to a feed tube which extends into the container's reservoir. The container is mounted upright to the machine's bottom surface by a screw collar. The machine's bottom surface is complementary to, and mates with, the container's top surface. A fluid-tight compressive seal is made in a first annular region about the container's central aperture by means of an O ring or gasket.

Abstract: The material to be metered drops onto a plate 21 which is driven in rotation. This plate 21 is provided on its edge with a cylindrical wall 22 pierced by recesses 24. The plate 21 turns in a cylinder 3 which masks the recesses 24 except at a place where a hole 5 is provided. When the recesses 24 pass opposite the hole 5 they pass behind a screen 4. Each recess 24 is emptied when it passes behind the screen 4 and is otherwise filled under the effect of centrifugal force.

Abstract: A two-piece, plastic, screw-on, closure and dispenser has an outer tubular female part with upper and lower internal screw threads and a separate, inner tubular male part with a single external screw thread rotatably attachable to the upper thread of the female part the lower thread of which is screwed onto the external screw thread of an outlet on top of a container, the male part is double-walled, an elongated pouring spout is an integral axial extension of an inner wall and a knurled hand knob is at the top of an outer wall and is turnable in either direction within the stationary female part for axial extension or retraction of the spout. An integral, internal, annular frustro-conical flange extends around the internal wall surface of the female part between threads and forms a valve seat around a fluid-flow opening.

Abstract: The flexible pouch (2) contains a semi-rigid component (6). The relative dimensions of the pouch (2) and the semi-rigid component (6) are such that the component (6) cannot move into a position in which its median plane would be perpendicular to the output axis of the product being dispensed. The component (6) can be free or fixed to the outlet pipe for the product to be dispensed. The component (6) defines flow channels for the product being dispensed from the bottom of the container towards the outlet pipe for the product.

Abstract: A closure is shown for use with an ice dispensing apparatus having an ice chute defining a front opening. The closure includes a door case having a front wall of a size and shape corresponding to the chute opening, a rearwardly turned perimeter wall connected to the front wall and having an outwardly turned flange, and a pair of baffles extending rearwardly from opposite sides of the flange. An insulation core is disposed within the perimeter wall rearwardly of the front wall. A gasket engages the chute incident to the closure being in the closed position. A rear wall is provided for substantially covering the chute opening incident to the closure being in the closed position. The baffles are operable to direct flow of ice pieces delivered through the opening when the closure is in the open position.

Abstract: A catch-in prevention rotary valve includes a rotor case having an inlet port and an outlet port and a rotor having a plurality of blades. The rotor is supported in the rotor case such that it can be rotatably driven about a horizontal shaft. Each of the blades has a blade end, and each blade end as viewed in elevation has a V-shape which is open to a front side in a predetermined rotation direction of each blade. A member is disposed above the inlet port having a shielding part and two inclining walls which have respective scratcxh-off edges, the two inclining walls opening into a V-shape toward a rear side in the predetermined rotation direction of each the blade, and the shielding part having a V-shape including a rear trip end. The rear tip end of the shielding part protrudes between the two inclining walls toward the rear side from a front central part of the two inclining walls. A bottom surface of the shielding part has a concave portion having a depth through which plural granules can pass.

Abstract: An ice dispensing and crushing apparatus is disclosed for dispensing and selectively crushing pieces of ice. The apparatus includes a supply bin for containing and supplying pieces of ice, a conveying trough formed at least partially within a lower portion of the supply bin and extending in an inclined manner toward a dispensing housing through which ice pieces can be dispensed. A helical conveyor is mounted for rotation in the conveying trough and is operable to convey individual pieces of ice one-by-one toward a dispensing opening formed in a lateral side of the dispensing housing. An ejection device, such as an ejection bar, is mounted adjacent the helical conveyor and acts to eject extra pieces of ice so as to assure the individual successive conveyance of the ice pieces.

Abstract: A container for storing and pouring a liquid, such as motor oil, has top, bottom, and lateral walls, a spout extending upwardly from the top wall, and two interior partitions, which are horizontal in an upright position of the container. Each partition defines an orifice extending between such partition and a side wall. The partitions divide the container into primary, secondary, and tertiary chambers. The primary chamber, which is the lowest chamber when the container is upright, has a volume sufficient to contain a predetermined quantity of motor oil. The secondary and tertiary chambers have substantially smaller volumes. The partitions prevent the primary chamber from being emptied of a liquid, when the container is rotated in a prescribed direction, unless the container is inverted sufficiently to incline, at an angle of approximately 8.degree. from horizontal, a planar surface being defined by each partition and facing the other partition.

Abstract: A method and an installation for conserving and/or dispensing a liquid or semi-liquid substance (P) released in a deformable flexible bag (s). The substance may be extracted from the bag by actuating and appropriate drawing-off dust (12), with the substance being drawn off via the duct (50) which remains closed so long as the bag (s) is not in place in a conservation and/or dispensing apparatus. While the bag is in the apparatus, and so long as the bag is not entirely empty, the substance is circulated by a pump round a closed loop circuit which extends in part outside the bag, with the circuit being set up when the bag (s) is put into place in the conservation and/or dispensing apparatus.

Abstract: A tubular container for adhesive material includes a substantially tubular body and a relatively rigid spout. An insert disposed in the spout hinders the intrusion of air through the spout. A plate is positioned so that the edge of the plate abuts the shoulder of the tubular body. The plate is supported by the insert at locations spaced from the edge of the plate. The exertion of pressure on the center of the plate causes the edge of the plate to be separated from the shoulder of the tubular body, thereby defining a passage for adhesive material.

Abstract: A flexible fluid dispenser includes a flexible fluid-containing vessel which has a seal which seals a top wall of the vessel to a bottom wall and is shaped to concentrate in a region thereof forces resulting from pressure generated by applying a force to the dispenser. The dispenser further includes a shield shaped to direct fluid released from the dispenser in a desired direction. When a sufficiently large force is applied to the dispenser, the weaker top or bottom wall of the vessel ruptures, or opens, at the concentration region of the seal. The released fluid is then directed by the shield in the desired direction.

Abstract: The dispenser device for liquid substances has a chamber for accommodating a liquid substance, at least one first passage arranged in an upper portion of the chamber and adapted to allow the inflow of the liquid substance into the chamber, and a dispenser suitable for feeding the liquid substance into the chamber through the first passage. A second passage is provided for the outflow of the liquid substance from a lower portion of the chamber, a valve adjusts the flow of the liquid substance through the second passage, and a flow deflector element is arranged within the chamber and is interposed in a fixed position between the first passage and the second passage. The deflector element has a substantially torroidal shape, and an intermediate portion thereof flanks, at a substantially constant distance, the inner surface of the chamber.

Abstract: A liquid storage container includes a supply port for supplying the liquid, and liquid path forming structure provided within the liquid container for preventing direct backflow of liquid in the container to the supply port. The liquid path forming structure is detachable from the liquid container and includes a projecting member having a sloped surface provided below the supply port. The liquid path forming structure also includes structure for defining a first flow path for passing liquid therethrough. This structure includes a lowermost section of the sloped surface and defines a first port. The liquid path forming structure also includes structure for defining a second flow path for passing liquid into the container. This structure includes a portion of the projecting member and defines a second port. The second port is in communication with a lowermost portion of the second flow path, and the first port is in communication with an intermediate portion of the second flow path.

Abstract: The dispenser holds two spices therein and selectively dispenses one of the spices at a time from a top surface thereof. The dispenser includes a parabolic, oval casing having a top surface formed of two planar members which each engage an upright. Each top surface member includes a recess in the area of the upright which creates a transverse slit in an area adjacent the upright, the slits being separated from one another by the upright. The upright continues downwardly, along the length of the casing to divide the interior of the casing into two sections. Each section further includes a slotted radially outwardly directed flange element extending from the upright across the horizontal extent of the section. The flange element controls the rate of dispensing and assists in returning any unused spice to the storage section of the chambers below the flange.

Abstract: The dispenser holds two spices therein and selectively dispenses one of the spices at a time from a top surface thereof. The dispenser includes a parabolic, oval casing having a top surface which angles downwardly in a central area between narrow ends of the oval. The top surface is formed of two planar members which each engage a central upright and lock to the oval casing in a snap fit manner. Each top surface member includes a recess in the area of engagement to the central upright which creates a transverse slit in a center area adjacent the central upright, the slits being separated from one another by the central upright. The central upright continues downwardly, along the length of the casing to divide the interior of the casing into two sections. Each section further includes a slotted radially upwardly directed flange element extending from the upright across the horizontal extent of the section.

Abstract: A lighter having a body bounding a liquefied gas reservoir and an exhaust chimney through which the gas issues to the outside when a lid is opened. The lighter has a gas rate-of-flow limiter in the form of a tube of a length greater than 5 mm and of a very reduced flow cross-section between 0.03 and 0.002 mm. The tube is disposed in the reservoir and is fitted hermetically in the body either directly or with the interposition of a support member.

Abstract: A bottled water plastic cap opener and flow controller assembly includes a three-part unit forming a hollow housing which has a generally circular cross section and is slightly tapered from end to end. The larger end of the housing is open and has a diameter sufficient to receive the end of a five-gallon water bottle provided with a plastic "tear-away" cap. The smaller end of the housing is closed except for a central opening. A transverse partition extends across the housing about half way between the two ends thereof, and is provided with a large central opening, and at least one additional smaller drainage opening. A piercing member is mounted on the central partition enclosing the central opening and extends upwardly toward the larger open end of the housing but not beyond its edge, to pierce a hole in the plastic cap when the assembly is firmly pushed down on the top of one of the five gallon water bottles.

Abstract: A storage bin arrangement especially suited for receiving, storing and discharging, in accordance with a combination of induced vertical flow and impelled retrieving concepts, bulk solid materials, in one embodiment of which essentially the entire bin itself is arranged for responding to a circular conveying type vibratory helical stroke movement generated by a pair of electric motors secured to the opposite sides of the bin in oppositely oriented positions to dispose their respective driving shafts at opposite, typically 45 degree angulations with respect to the horizontal, and with each such motor shaft driving a pair of eccentrically oriented weights, with the bin having a low profile bottom section equipped with one or more off center located, vertically oriented, vertically rectilinear, discharge chute arrangements and having one or more internally applied baffles, either of inverted cone type or one or more rows or levels of internally applied centerless, radial, sidewall mounted type, in spaced relatio

Abstract: An outer container, formed from a unitary blank of foldable paperboard, for use with an inner flexible bag in a composite package adapted to hold and dispense liquids. The container includes a detachable tab in the bottom wall, to provide access to a bag spout, and an integral, internal, wedge-shaped ramp, formed entirely from material of the bottom wall and adjacent side walls of the container, and which is located adjacent a lower rear corner of the container to help evacuate liquid from a bag positioned within the container.

Abstract: A beverage dispensing head and a method of dispensing that provide increased carbonation in a dispensed fountain beverage; the dispensing head has a discrete carbonated water decompression chamber in-between an upstream volumetric flow control and a downstream normally closed valve; the method includes the steps of propelling carbonated water through a flow control and then decompressing the carbonated water before it reaches the normally closed valve.

Abstract: A dispenser apparatus for accurately and repeatedly dispensing predetermined quantities of a flowable material in a continuous rapid succession. The dispenser apparatus includes a durable valve for controlling the flow of the flowable material, particularly granular flowable material. A ventilation system is also provided for preventing ambient moisture from causing the granular flowable material to absorb moisture and clog the passageways of the dispenser apparatus. The dispenser apparatus can be incorporated into conventional container filling systems that are otherwise limited by the speed with which granular flowable materials can be dispensed.

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 in 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 product-discharging device of a powdery/granular material processing apparatus incorporating a rotary pan. The product discharging device extends along an end wall from the vicinity of the rotary pan to the vicinity of an aperture provided at the end wall of the rotary pan. The product-discharging device guides the finished product from the interior of the rotary pan to the aperture and then automatically discharges the finished product out of the apparatus.

Abstract: An orifice disc insertion and removal device for the syrup tube of the mixing valve of a post-mix beverage dispenser, comprising a cylindrical plastic adaptor having an inside shoulder on which interchangeable orifice plates are disposed, a flange on the opposite end thereof which seats on the end of the syrup tube to accurately position the orifice device and a pull-tab connected to the flange for removing the cylindrical adaptor from within the syrup tube.

Abstract: A silo for pulverulent and other loose materials has outer silo walls, a lower circular silo base, a conical cover in the center of the lower circular silo base, and an upper intermediate circular silo base arranged between the outer silo wall and the conical cover and above the lower circular silo base. An annular space is formed between the upper and lower silo bases to act as a collecting chamber for receiving loosened material from the silo upper storage area and collecting and feeding the lossened material to discharge outlets in the lower silo base. The loose material passes via radially directed slots formed in the intermediate silo base from the upper silo area into the collecting chamber. The slots are adustable and pneumatic mechanisms are located adjacent the slots for fluidizing and ensuring proper mass flow of the materials from the upper silo area into the collecting chamber. Outlets are located in the lower silo base for discharge of loosened material held in the outlet chamber.

Abstract: The discharge rate of a solid particulate material from a storage hopper is increased beyond the rate attainable by gravity flow along through the introduction of a pressurized gas into a plenum that lies over the discharge hopper. In one embodiment, a first pipe extends vertically downward from a storage hopper, and a second pipe of larger diameter is fitted over the lower end of the first pipe so that an annular plenum is formed between the pipes. A pressurized gas is injected into this plenum and results in an increase in the discharge rate. The discharge rate can be controlled by altering the pressure of the injected gas, and the flow can be rendered intermittent by opening and closing a gate valve at the outlet of the discharge hopper.

Abstract: An arrangement for supplying and dosing a loose filling material comprises a dosing wheel rotatable in a predetermined direction and having a plurality of dosing chambers movable along a movement path, forming a filling chamber arranged above the movement path of the dosing chamber and limited from below by the dosing wheel and in the direction of rotation by an end wall having a lower edge, a stripper arranged in the region of the lower edge and abutting against the dosing wheel. Means is provided for substantially maintaining a constant filling pressure over a whole opening cross-section of the filling chamber, the maintaining means including a plurality of members having a stepped configuration and disposed on the end wall of the filling chamber, the members being varied in height in response to variations of filling pressure of the filling chamber, so that the filling pressure substantially remains constant by varying the volume of the filling chamber.

Abstract: A damper device for dampening a grain stream flowing from a discharge end of a spout has an adjustable band for mounting on the spout, a bucket for surrounding the grain stream and composed of a pair of main deflector members located at a first pair of opposite sides of the grain stream, a pair of supplementary and auxiliary deflector members located at each of a second pair of opposite sides of the grain stream in orthogonal relation to the first pair of stream sides, and a support arrangement suspending the main, supplementary and auxiliary deflector members from the mounting band. The support arrangement pivotally mounts the main deflector members to extend below the spout and across the grain stream for impact with grain flowing from the spout and biases the main deflector members for movement toward and away from one another between contracted and expanded relations in response to absence and presence of the grain stream flowing from the spout.

Abstract: A storage bin type ice dispenser includes a storage bin having front and rear walls, opposed side walls, a bottom wall and an inclined wall formed between a lower end of the front wall and a front end of the bottom wall to form a semicylindrical internal surface extending upward from an internal surface of the bottom wall. The bin is formed therein with a guide groove which is located at the center portions of the bottom and inclined walls in a lateral direction and extends upward from the bottom wall to a lower part of the front wall. The guide groove is formed at a front part thereof with a dispensing opening which opens downward through the inclined wall. The ice dispenser further includes an agitator having a rotary shaft rotatably mounted within the bin and positioned laterally in parallel with the semicylindrical internal surface of the inclined wall. A finger assembly is mounted on the center of the shaft to rotate along the guide groove.

Abstract: A storage bin arrangement especially suited for receiving, storing and discharging, in accordance with a combination of induced vertical flow and impelled retrieving concepts, bulk solid materials, in one embodiment of which essentially the entire bin itself is arranged for responding to a circular conveying type vibratory helical stroke movement generated by a pair of electric motors secured to the opposite sides of the bin in oppositely oriented positions to dispose their respective driving shafts at opposite, typically, 45 degree angulations with respect to the horizontal, and with each such motor shaft driving a pair of eccentrically oriented weights, with the bin having a low profile bottom section equipped with one or more off center located, vertically oriented, vertically rectilinear, discharge chute arrangements and having one or more internally applied baffles, either of inverted cone type or one or more rows or levels of internally applied centerless, radial, sidewall mounted type, in spaced relati

Abstract: A container in the form of a soft plastic bag divided into at least two and possibly three non-communicating chambers. The first two chambers may contain predetermined quantities of physiological salt washing solution for the extracorporeal circuit on the blood. side of a dialysis apparatus before employment of the apparatus in dialysis. Physiological salt solution in the first chamber may be used for washing the circuit by recirculation, if necessary, after an initial quantity of physiological salt solution has passed through the circuit and has been removed or discharged into the third chamber. Physiological salt solution in the second chamber may be utilized to complete the washing of the circuit and, if necessary, for replacement of water in the patient's blood to the patient's body at the end of the dialysis.

Abstract: A hopper assembly for uniform distribution of sludge, in which distribution elements on the bottom of the hopper are rotatable about vertical axes to enhance uniformity of distribution of the sludge issuing from the hopper.

Abstract: When dispensing unhomogenized materials from bottles such as those containing some salad dressings, mint sauce and the like, it is difficult to obtain a portion thereof with the correct proportions of the unmixed ingredients even though they are shaken before dispensing, because of the rapid settlement of the heavier fraction or fractions. The present device consists of a small cylinder insertable in or formed integrally with the bottle neck and having a vertical web dividing the neck into two chambers, one chamber being open at the upper and lower ends and the other being closed at the base and open at the top to communicate with the top portion of the first chamber. When the cap is secured to the top of the bottle neck, the contents can be shaken whereupon the bottle is inverted so that the contents flow through the first chamber and fill the second chamber.

Abstract: A metering valve for a pressurized dispensing container. The container is intended to operate in the inverted position. An element having a raised peripheral portion is provided about the valve housing which substantially closes the space between the wall of the container and the valve housing. The element prevents the settling of active substances of the material being dispensed in the region of the inlet opening of the metering valve.

Abstract: The invention concerns a tube for the distribution of a paste with stripes in which the head 1 which is connected by moulding to the skirt 4 of the tube has an inner skirt 8 which is in one piece with said head 1, which skirt 8 having flow openings 13, 14 for the stripe product, which skirt 8 has pairs of inner longitudinal ribs 17, 18, 22 for guiding the stripe product, disposed on respective sides of said openings 13, 14 and extending towards the top of the neck portion 7. The head of the tube is of a double skirt configuration, its outer skirt 16 forming the outside of the neck portion 7 and its inner skirt 8 extending from the top 5 of the head 1 and forming the inside of the neck portion 7 and the discharge duct 8 for the pasty product. Flow openings 13, 14, 15 are disposed in part at least above the notional extension of the slightly inclined rear surface 10 of the shoulder 2.

Abstract: A beverage dispensing head and a method of dispensing that provides increased carbonation in a dispensed fountain beverage. The dispensing head has a discrete carbonated water decompression chamber in-between an upstream volumetric flow control body and a downstream normally closed valve. The method includes the steps of propelling carbonated water through a flow control body and then decompressing the carbonated water before it reaches the normally closed valve.

Abstract: A container for dispensing measured quantities of free flowing material such as powders which is designed to be manufactured from a single blank of cardboard.The operation of the container is controlled by two generally parallel baffles spaced from each other and at an acute angle to the bottom of the container. The first baffle defines the measuring chamber between its lower end and the bottom of the container. The second baffle overlays the first baffle and defines a passageway from which material can be conducted to the measuring chamber when the measuring chamber is to be loaded and from which excess material can be returned to the container when the material is dispensed.

Abstract: Tip part (3) of a dosage vessel (1) for the dosage of liquid dropwise through a downwardly directed tip part. The tip part is provided with a capillary exhaust duct (6) as well as with a neck duct (8) wider than the exhaust duct. The liquid having access through the neck duct out of the vessel (1) into the exhaust duct (6). The neck duct (8) contains an oblong member (5) parallel to the neck duct.

Abstract: A package comprising, an elongated collapsible tube defining a chamber to receive a flowable material, with the tube having a tapered shoulder, and a hollow neck having an inner end extending from the shoulder, and an outer end. The shoulder normally causes flavor loss of the material in the region of the chamber adjacent the shoulder. The package has an insert comprising a tubular section having an outer end connected to the neck, and an inner end extending into the chamber a sufficient distance to prevent extrusion of the material in the region of the shoulder through the neck.

Abstract: A dispensing container for a liquid or paste-like substance, consisting of two sheets of foil material, the edges of which are interconnected by means of a liquid-tight connecting seam, enclosing therebetween a filling space, the interior of the filling space communicating with a tube fixed in the connecting seam, the tube forming an outflow opening, the sheets being extended beyond the end of this tube to form a handle, and being interconnected there in a liquid-tight manner in order to close the dispensing opening of the tube, at least a portion of these extended sheet portions being adapted to be loosened in order to uncover the dispensing opening of the tube so as to allow to dispense the contents of the filling space, which is characterized in that the connecting seam between the foil sheets (1) near the tube (5) is provided with a preformed channel portion (4) in which the tube (5) is fixed in a liquid-tight manner, the channel (4) being extended (4') beyond the extremity of the tube (5) and into the ha

Abstract: A sprinkler for distribution of powdered and granular products has a chamber defined by a closure having holes and a plate having openings abutted by a system of flanges protruding into the interior of the container which the closure and plate surmount.

Abstract: A fuel dispensing nozzle for gasoline fuel pumping stations and the like has an inlet through which the fuel is supplied within a range of supply inlet pressures, an outlet from which fuel is discharged and a flow passage having valving for selectively opening communication between the inlet and the outlet. At least one turbulence generating body is located in the flow passage between the inlet and the outlet and a turbulence damping or laminar flow inducing member is disposed in the flow passage upstream from the turbulence generating body member. The turbulence damping body member ensures that substantially laminar flow is directed to the turbulence generating member which thereby may predictably limit the rate of fuel flow through the nozzle to a predetermined maximum rate independent of the fuel inlet pressure within the supply range and independent of the amount of communication provided between the inlet and the outlet by the valving.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating dough balls from reusable breading having a container for holding breading containing dough balls, the container having an aperture in the bottom thereof for selectably discharging the breading having dough balls co-mingled therewith, a sifter having foraminous portions positioned below the container bottom aperture and having a bottom with a central opening therein, an actuator to cause breading to be sifted through the foraminous portions, a plurality of concentric circular walls having openings therethrough arranged to cause dough balls to be separately discharged through the sifter central opening, a breading collector container below the sifter to receive breading sifted from the sifter, and a dough ball collector directly below the sifter central opening for separately receiving dough balls passing therethrough.

Abstract: A vacuum bottle wherein the housing of the insulating jacket has a top section with a circular opening for the extension of a cover which overlies the opening and can be rotated to move one of two apertures in a downwardly extending skirt of the extension into register with a passage at the inlet end of a spout. The cover is separably coupled to the top section of the housing by a bayonet mount which causes the cover to rise during rotation to a pouring position and to descend during rotation to a sealing position. The jacket confines a receptacle for a hot or cold beverage which can be dispensed by way of the spout in the pouring position of the cover.

Abstract: A bulkhead for use with a cargo container, and comprising a wall member and at least a first slanted corner member. The wall member holds a cargo in the container, and the corner member is connected to the wall member adjacent a lower corner thereof to guide cargo downwardly and laterally toward an outlet in the wall member. Also disclosed is a lining system for a cargo container, and comprising a flexible liner and a bulkhead to hold the liner in place in the container. The liner includes an inlet and an outlet, and collapsible inlet and outlet chutes are provided to selectively open and close the inlet and outlet of the liner. With one embodiment the lining system is air and water tight; and with an alternate embodiment, the liner allows gases to pass outward through the liner.

Abstract: A container for dispensing carbonated beverages and fluids sensitive to oxidation is provided. The dispenser contains a follower which communicates with the ambient environment through a one-way valve. The dispenser preferably includes a liquid flow rate and a flow velocity regulator to control the rate and velocity at which liquid is dispensed therefrom.

Abstract: Provided is a bulk storage silo defined by a frame and having a flexible fabric liner, internal load distribution control, vibratory discharge and helicopter-type content spreaders.

Abstract: A toner replenishing device for replenishing toner to a toner storage area, from where the toner is supplied to a developing section, includes a holder for releasably holding a cartridge containing therein a quantity of toner, which may be located at a cartridge mounting and dismounting position and at a replenishing position, in which the cartridge is held substantially horizontally and driven to rotate thereby discharging the toner to a toner transporting path leading to the toner storage area. The cartridge is provided with a first mating member and the holder is provided with a second mating member corresponding in position and receiving the first mating member.

Abstract: A cut-off nozzle for use in dispensing increments of flowable products comprised of a liquid medium in which solids are dispersed, particularly burrito fillings. The cut-off nozzle structure incorporates a light-weight slide member which is shuttled with fast movement between "open" and "close" positions within a chamber having outlet openings in the bottom with which discharge openings in the slide member register or coincide when the slide member is shuttled to its "open" position. The geometry of the chamber-outlet and slide-discharge openings combines with the fast closing action of the slide to provide a sharp positive cut-off of increments of product dispensed from the nozzle with elimination of leakage or drip, plugging and separation of product constituents. The nozzle may be fed with a single stream of product or with two different streams.