Vacuum packing device

Claim 2

A vacuum packing device comprising a resiliently flexible container, a resilient cover, said cover having a valve aperture therein, said cover being releaseably engageable with the top of said container, valve means connectable to said cover through said valve aperture and selectively openable and closable when said cover is engaged to said container permitting the withdrawal of air from said container and to therefor prevent air from entering said container support means insertable in said container before engagement of said cover to prevent the collapse of said container when air is withdrawn therefrom, said valve means including cover grasping means for grasping opposed lateral surfaces of said cover and providing a pair of pluralities of ribbed-like protrusions extending outwardly from each of said opposed lateral surfaces for manually releaseably securing said valve means to said cover.

Claim 3

A device according to claim 1, wherein said support means comprises a wire cage.

Claim 4

The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said pair of pluralities of protrusions extend further outwardly from said opposed surfaces at one end of each of said protrusions disposed adjacent said aperture than the other end of said protrusions, said other end of said protrusions disposed radially outwardly from said aperture.

Claim 5

A device according to claim 1, wherein said valve means comprises an elongated valve stem having a central throughbore, means disposed on a first end portion for effecting the connecting thereof to a vacuum apparatus and a threaded second end portion, a valve member disposed adjacent said first end portion, said valve member being manually operable to open and close said throughbore, said cover grasping means including a mounting member disposed around said valve stem between said valve member and said second end portion of said valve stem and a locking nut threadably engageable with said second end portion of said valve stem for mounting said cover between said mounting member and said locking nut with said valve stem through said valve aperture in said cover, said mounting member carrying one of said pair of pluralities of protrusions, said locking nut carrying the other of said pair of pluralities of protrusions.

Claim 6

The apparatus as claimed in claim 4 further comprising a rubber-like gasket removeably disposed between one of said pair of opposed surfaces and said locking nut.