Quick-disconnect coupling and valve assembly

A coupling and valve assembly comprising a spout having an annular tubular body open at its inner and outer ends, a valve member having an annular tubular body telescoped in the spout body and axially-slideable therein and having a closed inner end and an open outer end to provide an outwardly-opening socket for receiving a connector with the valve body having a dispenser outlet leading into the socket, a seal between the valve body and spout body axially inwardly of the dispenser outlet, one-way stop means between the valve body and spout body which prevents axial outward movement of the valve body in the spout body to keep the seal between the valve body and spout body but permits axial inward movement of the valve body relative to the spout body to move the dispenser outlet axially inwardly of the inner end of the spout body to permit dispensing through said outlet and said socket;

• a gripper arrangement at the outer end of the valve body and spout body for gripping the connector upon insertion into the socket and movement of the valve body axially inwardly into the spout body;
• said gripping arrangement comprising cam means at the outer end of said spout body and radially-movable yieldable gripping means at the outer end of the valve body normally engaging said cam means in a radially-extended position but movable positively radially inwardly by the cam means to grip the connector upon movement of the valve body axially inwardly of the spout body by the connector so as to move the outlet inwardly beyond the inner end of the spout body and to pull the valve body axially-outwardly to move the outlet into the spout body outwardly of said seal upon retraction of the connector from the spout body.