Serving valve for continuous freezers

Claim 1

IN A FREEZER HAVING A DISCHARGE END WITH AN OPENING ADJACENT THE BOTTOM THEREOF AND THROUGH WHICH A FINISHED PRODUCT CAN BE DISCHARGED; A SERVING VALVE COMPRISING A GENERALLY VERTICALLY DISPOSED TUBE IN PRODUCT RECEIVING COMMUNICATION WITH SAID OPENING, A PLUNGER VERTICALLY SHIFTABLE IN SAID TUBE BETWEEN A LOWER POSITION IN WHICH SAID OPENING IS BLOCKED BY SAID PLUNGER AND AN UPPER POSITION IN WHICH SAID OPENING IS IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID TUBE, A BRACKET HAVING A VERTICAL BORE THERETHROUGH BY WHICH IT IS SLIPPED OVER AND THEREBY ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID TUBE FOR SWINGING IN A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL DIRECTION, SAID BRACKET HAVING AN OPEN-ENDED OPENING, AND A HANDLE EXTENDING THROUGH SAID OPENING AND THEREBY PIVOTALLY MOUNTED INTERMEDIATE ITS LENGTH ON SAID BRACKET, SAID HANDLE BEING REMOVABLE FROM SAID BRACKET THROUGH SAID OPEN-ENDED OPENING, SAID HANDLE HAVING AN INNER END PIVOTALLY CONNECTED WITH SAID PLUNGER AND ALSO HAVING AN OUTER END WHEREBY DOWNWARD MOVEMENT OF THE LATTER CAUSES VERTICAL PIVOTING OF SAID HANDLE ABOUT SAID BRACKET AND CONSEQUENT RAISING OF SAID PLUNGER.