Food product dispenser and valve

US9717354B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GEHL FOODS, LLC · US

Inventors

• Michael Gehl · Germantown, US
• Michael Sowieja · Richfield, US
• Christoph Albiez · Eßlingen, DE
• Paul Hatch · Chicago, US
• Thomas O. Mitchell · Trenton, US
• David Mucci · Chicago, US
• Anders Olof Rostlund · Chicago, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 3, 2014
• Grant date: Aug 1, 2017
• Expiry date: Oct 3, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01F11/36
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for dispensing a flowable food product from a reservoir is provided. A wall of the reservoir defines an aperture therethrough allowing the flowable food product to exit the reservoir. The system includes a valve having a base member having a first passageway extending therethrough and a moving member having a second passageway extending therethrough, the moving member configured to slide relative to the base member between a closed position in which the first passageway and the second passageway do not overlap and an open position in which the first passageway and the second passageway overlap. When the moving member is in the open position, an axis extending through the first passageway and the second passageway extends through the aperture in the reservoir.