Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deformable elastomeric valve and valve assembly
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Application No.: US14807861Application Date: 2015-07-23
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Publication No.: US09609969B1Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Donald J. Panec , Kathryn Kelsey Anne Stillinger , Scott H. Stillinger
- Applicant: Acorn Bay
- Applicant Address: US CA Novato
- Assignee: ACORN BAY
- Current Assignee: ACORN BAY
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Novato
- Agent Michael J. Andri
- Main IPC: A47G21/18
- IPC: A47G21/18 ; F16K21/04 ; F16K7/12 ; A45F3/16 ; B65D47/20

Abstract:
An elastomeric valve includes a barrel having one or more walls defining an interior fluid pathway. The barrel is deformable between a non-deformed state and a deformed state. The elastomeric valve further includes a gate assembly of two or more gate elements forming a tapering volume projecting into the fluid pathway from the one or more walls of the barrel. In at least some examples, each gate element joins the barrel at a reduced cross-section that forms a hinge of that gate element. The two or more gate elements interface with each other along one or more gate boundaries to collectively block the fluid pathway in the non-deformed state and separate from each other along the one or more gate boundaries in the deformed state to permit fluid flow through the gate assembly.
Public/Granted literature
- US3258253A Method of and apparatus for mixing glass batch materials Public/Granted day:1966-06-28
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