Abstract: A mold fill coupling combined with a pinch fill valve and an overflow valve permits filling of a mold at one station and disconnecting the fill valve without rotating the mold.

Abstract: A drainage tap can be readily fixed in a face-to-face manner to the wall of a plastics drainage bag and is easily operated by a user. The tap has a body and a valve member therein, and the latter is held within the body by engagement of an external rib on the valve member in a slot which extends into a flange of the body.

Abstract: There is provided a stop valve-carrying rotary nozzle for a machine tool designed to eject a fluid onto the portion of a work which is being worked thereby improving the work-cooling and cutting efficiency of the machine tool.The present rotary nozzle consists of a nozzle body having a throughbore and a spherical member having a throughbore that is in turn fitted within the fluid outlet side of said throughbore of the nozzle body with a sealing O-ring being interposed between the spherical member and the throughbore of the valve body, while allowing a free rotation of the spherical member on its own axis therein.

Abstract: A multipurpose sink spray device having an upstream and downstream stem integrally joined to a valve housing containing a two-way valve. A slot in the valve housing receives a locking tab mounted in an annular opening of an auxiliary attachment device such as a spigot or a brush. Movement of the locking tab in the slot activates a valve in the housing and allows water to flow through the attachment device. Alternatively, the sink spray device can be activated without the auxiliary attachment device by depressing a lever or handle on the sink spray housing.

Abstract: An improved beverage dispensing system utilizing a unique mixing valve design is disclosed. The mixing valve comprises an inner rotatable member an outer casing, and a flow restriction which produces a jet of spray, yielding a reconstituted beverage of uniform consistency.

Abstract: In a grip-less water mixer unit, the quantity of water outflow and the mixing temperature are controlled by pivot-mounting the water outlet about two independent axes in a valve body. The water outlet is coupled to two regulating elements of which, one serves to regulate the water quantity and the other the adjustment of the mixing temperature. In a first embodiment example both regulating elements are formed as cylindrical bodies rotatable in the valve body, and in a second embodiment example, both regulating elements are concentrated in a ball which is rotatable in the valve body.

Abstract: A ball element pivotally mounted on a sleeve that slides within the tubular valve member of a well safety valve has a radial slot extending across its width parallel to and offset from its pivotal axis. A bar extending in secant fashion across the valve member engages the slot, rotating the ball element to open and close the valve as the sleeve slides back and forth. An unslotted outer surface portion of the ball element mates with the valve seat during valve closing.

Abstract: The tap or valve is made up of a first tube and a second tube which may be located about a common axis. Each of the tubes has a portion of its wall extending around only a part of its periphery, cut away. One of the tubes is rotatable between an "open position" in which the apertures wholly or partly overlap and a "closed position" in which the apertures are overlapped by a portion of the tube.

Abstract: An air control valve is provided for use in a spa to regulate the flow of air to a hydrotherapy jet in which a recessed control knob is accessible at a rim of the spa to actuate a movable valve member to selectively constrict or dilate an air flow passage through the valve body which has an air intake opening underneath the spa rim to isolate the noise associated with the intake opening from the user.

Abstract: A button for a utensil lid includes a blocking member disposed against the lid and a handle part supported on the blocking member. A fastening element extends through the lid, holds the handle part and blocking member in place, and has passageways which provide communication from a chamber in the blocking member to the opposite side of the lid. The blocking element has openings providing communication between the chamber and the region outside the blocking member. A collar encircles the blocking member and is supported for limited rotation thereon, the openings in the blocking member being obstructed and free from obstruction when the collar is respectively in first and second positions relative to the blocking member.

Abstract: A valve is mountable in an opening in a gated pipe to control water flow, particularly in a cablegation system. A gasket is mountable in the irrigation pipe opening and a hollow leg of a T-shaped valve housing is inserted into the mounting member. The housing has a hollow, open-ended tubular portion which receives a hollow valve member. The valve member has an enlarged cap and a side opening alignable with the housing leg, the degree of alignment controlling the amount of flow. The valve member can also include a check valve.

Abstract: A ball valve with cooperative cranks for rotating the ball valve in which the cranks run in arcuate waffle plates having intersecting lands and grooves and wherein the ball valve is spherical and retainer rings cooperate with the ball valve to hold the cranks in engagement with the waffle plate even when pumping through the valve and moving the ball valve away from an upper seat while retaining the ball valve actuator in the closed position.

Abstract: A ball type valve in which the ball is rotated by the cooperation of multiple tracks and multiple track followers.Also, a pressure operated permanent lock-out is disclosed. Pressure applied to a piston withdraws an expander from under a lock ring to release a lock-out sleeve. Continued application of pressure drives the sleeve to valve lock-open position where the sleeve is permanently locked to the housing.

Abstract: An adjustable valve incorporated into a faucet or shower head which is manually manipulatable in order to control water flow at the faucet or shower head with the adjustable valve including interchangeable components to enable the faucet and shower head to be provided with an aerator or jet spray arrangement and enabling the components to be assembled in a manner which will reduce the number of different components necessary to assemble either a faucet or shower head which includes an adjustable valve therein. The adjustable valve includes a rotatably supported crown or shower head bell which can be manually rotated to adjust the valve with the valve itself including a restrictor having orifices therein and a valve plate having flat surfaces and a cavity associated with a central opening to enable control of flow through the orifices.

Abstract: A housing having a longitudinal aperature therethrough, and an exterior surface adapted to be securable to a container. A stem is longitudinally movable within the housing and is cooperatively conformed with the housing such that an annulus exists between a portion of the housing and the stem. The stem includes a plurality of ports allowing fluid communication between the annulus and a longitudinal cavity extending from the top end of the stem. A sealing instrumentality if included proximate a bottom end of the valve to prevent the flow of fluid into the valve annulus when the valve is in a first "closed" position. The stem is adapted to be moved longitudinally within the housing to a second, "open", position wherein the sealing instrumentality is released and fluid may enter the annulus and pass through the ports to exit the valve through the stem cavity.

Abstract: A valve for directing and controlling the flow of pressurized gas comprises a socket and a spheroidal hollow shell mounted in said socket for swivel motion. The shell interiorly forms a spheroidal socket which receives an axially rotatable valve body. The shell and the valve body respectively have an alignable aperture and gas inlet. The body and shell are rotatable between a closed position and an open position wherein the aperture aligns with the inlet.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for lubricating a vacuum pump, preferably a rotary vane vacuum pump, wherein the pump rotor is mounted on a hollow drive shaft continuously fed with a lubricating oil stream under excess pressure from an oil pump, radial openings being provided in the hollow shaft for the outward supply of lubricating oil to the elements being lubricated with the lubricating oil stream from said oil pump being fed under excess pressure as a pulsating and preferably intermittent flow stream into the interior of the hollow shaft.

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.

Abstract: A water-saving faucet, particularly for kitchen sinks and bathroom basins, is provided. The faucet comprises at least one water valve, a sink-sweeping movable spout and a spout valve means coupled to the spout. The open and closed states of the faucet are controllable by the movable spout and the open state of the faucet is substantially unaffected by the sweep of the movable spout across the effective area of the sink or basin. An attachment for converting a standard mixing faucet having a movable spout into a water-saving mixing faucet is also provided.

Abstract: A drain assembly for a urostomy pouch or other similar collection device for permitting continuous overnight draining of the pouch into a suitable receptacle, thereby allowing the user to wear the pouch in bed without the risk of fluid leakage or the inconvenience of interrupting sleep for periodic emptying of the pouch. The assembly includes a body member adapted to be secured to a pouch at the lower end thereof and defining a path for the outflow of the fluid contents of the pouch, a rotary valve member for selectively opening and closing the flow passage, and a drainage tube equipped with a coupler for releasably engaging a stem portion of the valve member.

Abstract: A test valve assembly is provided which is adapted to be lowered on a tubular string between upper and lower tubular sections into position within a blowout preventer stack at the upper end of a well bore of a subterranean oil or gas well. The apparatus has first and second fluid flow passageways within a housing. A valve member is disposed between the flow passageways and is shiftable to open position to communicate the flow passageways during selective incremental testing of the well and is manipulatable to closed position to isolate the flow passageways prior to and subsequent to selective incremental testing of the well. Means are provided which are responsive to mechanical manipulation of the tubular string for shifting of the valve member between closed and open positions. The apparatus and the tubular string may be selectively latched with respect to one another without manipulation of the valve member between closed and open positions.

Abstract: A valve apparatus is provided for use in a subterranean well and is responsive to manipulation of a fluid transmission conduit to manipulate a valve head relative to a valve seat between open and closed positions, the valve head means comprising camway slot means defined exteriorly thereon. Camway ball means are secured to the valve seat means and carriable in the camway slot means to pivot the valve head means as the head is rotated relative to its seat.

Abstract: A two-part delivery outlet closure device for containers, especially for liquids, including a cap part whose end wall is provided with a through bore leading into a recess which has two side walls wherein a rocking lever, which is also provided with an axial through bore, is pivotally mounted by a bearing system including a pair of bearing pins normal to the bores, one on each side thereof, and a pair of latch slots each adapted to receive one pin and open on one side and of narrower width in this region to the diameter of the bearing pin so that the pins are adapted to engage in the slots in the manner of a snap fastening, for which reason at least one part of the device is made of a resilient material, and the bearing pins being arranged in the side walls of the cap part and the latch slots on the lever part.

Abstract: A low pressure low volume plastic metering valve comprised of a cylinder having an external tapered port and a piston having a tapered through port for communicating with the port in said cylinder. Both the tapered port in the cylinder and the through port in the piston are offset from the axis of the cylinder and communicate with each other along an arcuate tapered passageway that varies from a maximum where the ports abut to a minimum. The piston is held by a lip on the cylinder walls which prevents axial movement of the piston but allows rotation of the piston to vary the fluid flow. Sealing is improved by constructing the cylinder of a yieldable plastic and the piston of a different plastic that is brittle and non-yielding.

Abstract: An adapter for connection to a liquid faucet comprises an inlet member, a coaxial outlet member, and a valve device which is rotatable relative to the outlet member about an axis common to the inlet and outlet members. The inlet member is connectable to the outlet end of the liquid faucet. The outlet member has several outlet openings or groups of outlet openings separated from each other. The valve device is rotated in order to continuously adjust the opening ratio between the various outlet openings of the outlet member relative to each other, thereby providing a precisely regulated amount of liquid which is branched off from the liquid faucet for operating auxiliary devices such as a douche.

Abstract: A showerhead of the type including an inlet end, an outlet end, and a bore defining a passage between the two. Two discs are disposed in the passage, in face-to-face engagement with each other and mounted for relative rotation about a central axis. A plurality of orifices, arranged with their centers spaced at regular intervals around a circle of predetermined diameter, extend through each disc. Each orifice of the downstream disc defines a small port at the downstream face and a large port at the upstream face of the disc. Each orifice through the upstream disc defines at its downstream face a port that communicates with but is smaller than a respective port at upstream face of the downstream disc.

Abstract: An adjustable outlet nozzle for heating and venting systems of automobiles having a double-wing butterfly valve arranged inside a convex-spherically shaped ring which is universally pivotably supported by a concave-spherically shaped connector housing, the wing flaps of the valve being actuatable by means of a rotatable cross handle and a bevel gear drive, the flanks of the cross handle being axially aligned with a transverse supporting member and with the fully open wing flaps of the valve, to form a smooth air guide through the nozzle.

Abstract: A two-piece valve including a first tubular member having a flow passageway therethrough with a tapered valve seat formed at one end of the flow passageway. A second tubular member is provided having a flow passageway therethrough and a valve element mounted in the flow passageway on the axis thereof. The first and second tubular members are slidably telescopically engaged with each other with one end of the first tubular member slidably positioned inside one end of the second tubular member. The valve element of said second tubular member has a tapered valve surface formed thereon adapted to move into and out of sealing engagement with the tapered valve seat of the first tubular member when the tubular members are telescoped axially one inside the other. The taper angles of the valve element and seat are in the "self-holding" category so that when the valve element is firmly seated in the valve seat the parts will be retained in mating engagement without any additional retaining means.

Abstract: A gas nozzle for a gas-using appliance containing a passage for gas formed at least in part in two members which are relatively rotatable while remaining in contact with one another over a surface of contact presented by each member. The passage in each member has a debouchment at the surface of contact on that member eccentric with respect to the axis of relative rotation of the members.

Abstract: The invention involves an adjustable drain control assembly for a bathtub or the like, comprising a cylindrical component having both end and side openings exposable within the tub when installed, and having a total flow capacity of the order of that of said cylindrical component, and a cap rotatably installed over such openings, the cap having corresponding end and side openings adapted to be simultaneously aligned with the end and side openings in the cylinder component, to permit of maximum drainage flow through the drain control assembly.

Abstract: A faucet including a spout with a longitudinal duct, a housing, a recess in said housing for rotatably receiving the inner end of the spout; the spout being rotatable between at least two positions, a first position and a second position, a transverse duct in the spout proximate the inner end of the spout and communicating with the duct longitudinal of the spout; a bore in the housing for connection with a fluid source extending to the recess and the inner end of the spout; an adjustable sealing member in the bore; and a passage extending through the adjustable sealing member to the recess for communicating with the transverse duct in the first position and not in the second position.

Abstract: An adjustable air outlet nozzle for automobile heating and venting systems in which a spherical hollow nozzle is connected to a surrounding housing lodgement by means of an intermediate gimbal ring and includes a double-clappet valve which is operable by means of a wing knob, through a bevel gear drive. The nozzle shell has an inner wall with an abutment shoulder for the valve clappets and a progressively widening gap for sensitive throttling of the air flow.