Ebtech, Inc.

A.k.g.s.

A.k.g.s. Partnership, a Partnership of Las Vegas

Robert M Clemens

James L Durbin

Bruce D Burrows

An improved valve assembly is provided for use in dispensing liquids, particularly such as flavored syrup and the like in a soft drink dispenser station. The valve assembly comprises a compact unit adapted to mount directly into the neck of a bottle containing a flavor syrup, wherein the bottle is designed for inverted installation into the dispenser station with the neck seated within a mating support socket. The valve assembly includes parallel dispense and vent ports, together with a dispense valve for regulating syrup outflow and a check valve for permitting air inflow. The dispense valve comprises the armature of a solenoid actuator, the coil of which is integrated with the support socket and adapted for connection to an electrical current for displacing the dispense valve to an open position and thereby permit gravity syrup flow from the bottle. The dispensed syrup volume is replaced by air drawn into the bottle through the vent port and an associated vent tube which projects a short distance into the bottle interior. The check valve, such as a duckbill type check valve, is mounted on the vent tube to permit low resistance air inflow into the bottle while preventing syrup backflow through the vent tube. The check valve is positioned a short distance above the dispense port such that syrup dispensing occurs under the influence of a relatively small and substantially constant pressure head.

Syrup dispenser valve assembly

An improved aircraft trash compactor having an elongated inner chamber which is separated into front and rear chamber sections by means of a movable door or wall disposed transversely across the width of the chamber. The movable door or wall supports the rear panel of the trash container in the front chamber section during the compaction of trash therein and may be moved to an out-of-the-way position to allow the filled trash container to be moved into the rear chamber section for storage or disposal. The filled trash container in the rear chamber section supports the rear panel of a trash container in the front chamber section during the compaction of trash therein.

Aircraft trash compactor

This invention is directed to a trash compactor suitable for use in aircraft and aerospace vehicles. The compactor includes improved hydraulic power and control systems which provide short compaction cycle times and high compaction ratios and which has integrated means to loosen trash containers from the supporting walls of the compacting chamber at the completion of the compaction cycle so that the filled trash containers can be readily removed from the compactor.

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Newhall, CA, United States of America

Robert M Clemens