Pouring device
OwnerRaúl Acarreta Delgadoinventor
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Abstract
A pouring device for a liquid filled container that fits into the neck of a container opening. The pouring device has a buoyant hollow ball valve that when the container or bottle is seated in its normal vertical storage position is pressed against an inner lip of the pouring device to form a seal by a spring that is seated on a distal inner lip of the pouring device. The valve opens when the container is inverted as the hollow ball valve is so buoyant that it overcomes the spring bias, thereby allowing the container's fluid contents to pour out. The hollow ball valve's movement is controlled by at least one vertical projection along the length of the pouring device.
Claims10
A pouring device for a liquid container including:
- a floatable plugging means for closing an opening of the pouring device when the pouring device is in a vertical position;
- an annular ring serving as a seating for the floatable plugging means;
- at least one vertical guide projection extending from the annular ring in a direction away from the opening and being substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the pouring device, and having an inward projection at an end opposite the opening, the inward projection extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis;
- a spring seated on the inward projection of the vertical guide projection at one end and exerting a spring force against the floatable plugging means toward the annular ring to bias the floatable plugging means against the annular ring at a closed position to close the opening of the pouring device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.