Device for withdrawing liquid from a reservoir by means of a water jet device
AssigneeSara Lee/DE N.V.
InventorsJan C. van Hattem, Jan A. E. Sperna Weiland
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Abstract
A device for attaching a water jet device to a concentrate container or a reservoir by means of a clamping device or a foot, comprising a connecting piece, in which the foot is arranged to be fixed and put into sealing abutment with the insert piece in one movement, for which purpose the connecting piece is provided externally with threaded parts designed to cooperate through a bayonet catch with a complementarily designed part of the foot. The container, which is designed as a flexible bag, may be provided with a base plate at the position of the connecting piece, said connecting piece being designed as an insert piece, so as to ensure that the outlet opening of the insert piece remains open.
Claims7
An apparatus for withdrawing liquid from a reservoir, comprising:
- a reservoir box having a bottom wall provided with an opening;
- a flexible bag for containing a supply of liquid to be withdrawn from said flexible bag through said opening, said flexible bag being supported in said reservoir box;
- a connector extending as an outlet opening means from within said flexible bag near said bottom wall, down and out of said flexible bag through said opening;
- said connector being fitted with a valve mechanism including a normally closed lip seal which, while externally subjected to lowered pressure flexes to an open condition which permits liquid contained in the bag to flow out through the connector;
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- a water jet assembly comprising:
- a water jet device arranged to be connected at an inlet end thereof to a supply of pressurized water and to be connected at an outlet end therefor to a drain for water mixed with liquid withdrawn from said flexible bag by operation of said water jet device, said water jet device including a socket through which water is jetted, in use, for creating a lowered pressure on said lip seal, said lip seal arranged to be communicated by said socket, in use, to water jetted through said socket;
- and a clamping device at least partially housing said water jet assembly, characterized in that the clamping device is arranged to be fixed and put into sealing abutment with said connector in one movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.