Melitta-werke Bentz & Sohn

Jurgen Bockstiegel

Dieter Brindopke

Peter Ullrich

A filter vessel including a vessel body having a bottom outlet opening; a carrying handle mounted on the vessel body; a closing rod extending alongside the vessel body and being longitudinally movably supported thereby between first and second positions; a valve mounted on the closing rod for maintaining the outlet opening open or closed in the respective first or second position of the closing rod; a spring urging the closing rod into the first position; an engagement face carried on the closing rod; an operating lever pivotally supported by the vessel body in an upper zone of the carrying handle and having a depressed position and a raised position; and a clamping cam carried by the operating lever. The clamping cam is in contact with the engagement face and displaces the closing rod toward the second position upon manual movement of the operating lever into the depressed position.

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Minden, Germany

Jurgen Bockstiegel