Battery filler

Claim 1

A VALVE AND SPOUT MECHANISM ADAPTED TO BE SECURED TO THE POURING SPOUT OF A BATTERY FILLER COMPRISING, A BODY MEMBER ADAPTED TO BE SECURED TO THE POURING SPOUT, A PARTITION ON SAID BODY MEMBER FOR COVERING THE SPOUT OF THE BATTERY FILLER, SAID PARTITION HAVING AN INTEGRAL GUIDE SLEEVE FORMED THEREIN PERPENDICULAR TO SAID PARTITION, SAID GUIDE SLEEVE HAVING INNER< AND OUTER SECTIONS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID PARTITION, A MOVABLE MEMBER MOUNTED ON SAID BODY MEMBER FOR RECIPROCATION THEREON ALONG THE AXIS OF SAID GUIDE SLEEVE, SAID MOVABLE MEMBER INCLUDING A HOLLOW TUBE RECEIVED IN SAID SLEEVE, AN EXTERIOR RADIAL PROJECTION ON SAID TUBE DIVIDING THE SAME INTO INNER AND OUTER PORTIONS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID PARTITION, SAID INNER PORTIONS HAVING A UNIFORM OUTER DIAMETER SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN THE INNER DIAMETER OF SAID SLEEVE TO THAT SAID INNER PORTION CAN BE INSERTED THROUGH AND HAS A SNUG FIT WITH SAID SLEEVE, SAID TUBE HAVIN AN OPEN END IN SAID OUTER PORTION AND A CLOSED END IN SAID INNER PORTION, WALL MEANS IN SAID TUBE TO SEPARATE THE INTERIOR THEREOF INTO TWO LONGITUDINAL SEPARATE PASSAGES, EACH OF SAID PASSAGES HAVING A RADIAL OPENING NEAR SAID CLOSED END OF SAID TUBE, SAID RADIAL PROJECTION AND THE CLOSEST PORTION OF SAID OPENINGS BEING SPACED APART A DISTANCE WHICH IS EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN THE LENGTH OF SAID SLEEVE SO THAT SAID CLOSED END AND SAID OPENINGS WILL PASS THROUGH SAID INNER SECTION AND EXTEND BEYOND SAID INNER END OF SAID SLEEVE INTO THE POURING SPOUT, A CIRCUMFERENTIAL RING GROOVE IN THE EXTERNAL SURFACE OF SAID TUBE BETWEEN SAID CLOSED END AND SAID OUTLET OPENINGS, A RESILIENT O-RING SEAL REMOVABLY MOUNTED IN SAID GROOE AND EXTENDING RADIALLY OUTWARD OF SAID TUBE FOR SNUG ENGAGEMENT WITH THE INNERMOST END OF SAID INNER SECTION OF SAID GUIDE SLEEVE TO PROHIBIT MOVEMENT OF SAID CLOSED END OF SAID TUBE INTO SAID GUIDE SLEEVE, AND SPRING MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID BODY AND MOVABLE MEMBERS FOR URGING SAID TUBE TO A CLOSED POSITION WHEREIN SAID O-RING SEAL IS URGED AGAINST SAID INNERMOST END OF SAID TUBE TO BLOCK FLOW BETWEEN SAID TUBE AND THE BATTERY FILLER, SAID MEMBERS BEING MOVABLE TO AN OPEN POSITION WHEREIN SAID OPENINGS ARE MOVED OUTWARDLY OF SAID GUIDE SLEEVE FOR AIR AND LIQUID FLOW TO AND FROM THE BATTERY FILLER THROUGH SAID PASSAGES.