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Overpressure valve for packages with flexible walls
Assignee: Wipf AG
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Filing: 1982-06-29
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Granted: 1984-04-24
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Expires: 2002-06-29
Abstract
Abstract The present invention is with respect to an overpressure valve for packages with flexible walls, having a valve body able to be fluid-tightly joined with such a package. The valve body has a flat valve seat having thereon a diaphragm with a valve shutting part. In the seat there are valve openings, each having a number of concentric ring-like channels round it in the seat. The concentric channels take up a sealant, more specially silicone oil. The diaphragm is made of a single piece of material running on one side of the walls to the other without any holes therein. It is only kept in position in a middle part of the valve seat so that the diaphragm may be moved freely, at least over the valve openings. In the case of a preferred form of the invention, the diaphragm is slipped loosely into the valve body in which it is kept in position by a keeper in a middle part thereof. The keeper may be fixed in position by friction or by a keying effect.
Inventors
- 👤 Erwin B. Hollenstein
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-26 20:12
CPC Classifications
B; B65; B65D; B65D77/00; B65D77/22; B65D77/225; B65D51/00; B65D51/16; B65D51/1633; B65D51/1644; B65D81/00; B65D81/18; B65D81/20; F; F16; F16K; F16K15/00; F16K15/14; F16K15/16; F16K15/162; F16K17/00; F16K17/20; F16K17/205; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T137/00; Y10T137/4238; Y10T137/4358; Y10T137/7722; Y10T137/7837; Y10T137/7838; Y10T137/7839; Y10T137/784; Y10T137/7859; Y10T137/7866; Y10T137/7879; Y10T137/7888; Y10T137/7891; Y10T137/7892
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 24
Claim 1
Independent Claim
159 words
In an overpressure valve for a flexibly walled package, having a valve body designed to be fixed air-tightly in said wall and an elastic diaphragm in said body placed so that valve openings in said valve body are shut by said diaphragm resting against a valve seat of said body, said openings in said seat being at the ends of holes stretching through said body from said seat to an opposite side of said body, the invention residing in that each of the valve openings in the valve seat at the ends of said holes running through said body has at least two concentric channels placed around it in the valve seat, such channels having a sealant therein, said diaphragm being generally free of any hole and being supported at a middle part thereof against said valve seat, whereas parts of said diaphragm next to said valve openings are able to be freely winged towards away from said seat.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
159 words
In an overpressure valve for a flexibly walled package, having a valve body designed to be fixed air-tightly in said wall and an elastic diaphragm in said body placed so that valve openings in said valve body are shut by said diaphragm resting against a valve seat of said body, said openings in said seat being at the ends of holes stretching through said body from said seat to an opposite side of said body, the invention residing in that each of the valve openings in the valve seat at the ends of said holes running through said body has at least two concentric channels placed around it in the valve seat, such channels having a sealant therein, said diaphragm being generally free of any hole and being supported at a middle part thereof against said valve seat, whereas parts of said diaphragm next to said valve openings are able to be freely winged towards away from said seat.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
42 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 1 having a keeper for keeping said diaphragm in position and wherein said diaphragm is loosely placed in position and is kept in place by said keeper resting against an outer face of said diaphragm.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
17 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 2, wherein said keeper is keyed in said valve body.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
29 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said valve body is hollow and pot-like, a floor of said valve body forming said valve seat.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
37 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 2, wherein said keeper is keyed in said valve body, the valve body having a side wall which is inwardly grooved and into which the keeper may be keyed springingly.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
25 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 5 wherein said valve body has an inwardly radially running lip, behind which said keeper is springingly keyed.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
36 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 6 wherein said inwardly running lip has a sloping face turned towards said valve seat, said keeper having sloping faces at ends thereof for resting against said sloping face.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
44 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 2 wherein said valve body is hollow and pot-like, a floor of said valve body forming said valve seat, said keeper being in the form of a girder stretching over the inner part of said valve body.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
14 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 8 wherein said girder is an I-girder.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
21 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 8 wherein said girder has side wings forming parts thereof, spaced from said diaphragm.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
14 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 1 wherein said valve seat is round.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
25 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 11 wherein said valve openings are at an equal distance from a middle point on said valve seat.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
25 words
The overpresssure valve as claimed in claim 10, wherein said diaphragm is round and has a diameter less than the diameter of the valve seat.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
27 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 7 wherein said diaphragm is round and has a diameter the same as the inner diameter of the said lip.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
15 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, having five valve openings.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
37 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 2 wherein the keeper is let back at positions opposite to the valve openings so that at such positions the keeper is spaced from the diaphragm's face facing said keeper.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
33 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in anyone of claims 2 or 5, wherein at least one the three parts, namely: the valve body, the keeper, the diaphragm, is made of a thermoplastic material.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
46 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in anyone of claims 2 or 5, wherein at least one of the three parts, namely: the valve body, the keeper, the diaphragm, is made of a thermoplastic material, such thermoplastic material being selected from the group: polyethylene, low-pressure polyethylene, polypropylene.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
13 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 2, wherein said keeper is colored.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
30 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 1 wherein said valve body has a top edge with an outwardly running flange for making a fluid-tight joint with a package wall.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
23 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 1, having a further ring-like channel in the valve seat and concentric thereto for said sealant.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
18 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 21 having said further ring-like channel radially within said valve openings.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
19 words
The overpressure valve as claimed in claim 21 wherein said ring like-channel is placed radially outside said valve openings.
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