Disconnect for a bag valve
CA 2005380 C · Owner: Schroeder, Alfred A. · Inventors: Schroeder, Alfred A.; Smazik, Kenneth G.
Overview
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A disconnect for coupling a postmix dispenser juice concentrate line to a bag valve of a juice concentrate bag-in-box container. The disconnect includes an open passageway therethrough with no areas or elements therein that can trap concentrate with pulp. The disconnect includes a hollow body with a juice concentrate passageway therethrough a stationary, poppet valve therein, a movable sleeve with a valve seat, and a spring biasing the sleeve into contact with the valve to close the passageway. The spring is located adjacent the outside of the sleeve to keep the spring out of the passageway.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 13, 1989 and granted December 2, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 13, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 13, 2011.
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