Patent ID: 8950637
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A valved fluid transport container comprising a hollow vessel having a spout aperture and a first handle oppositely disposed on said vessel to said spout aperture, said first handle having a corresponding handle cavity, said handle cavity having a handle side wall common with said vessel, said handle side wall having a shaft aperture therein, nested first, second and third tubes mounted in said spout aperture, each of said first, second and third tubes having opposite downstream and upstream ends, said downstream and upstream ends having openings therein, wherein said first tube is telescopically nested for first telescopic motion relative to and within said second tube, and said third tube is telescopically mounted on, for second telescopic motion relative to said second tube, and wherein said second tube is rigidly mounted into said spout aperture, and wherein said first and second telescopic motions are along a common centroidal longitudinal axis of said tubes, and wherein said longitudinal axis intersects said first handle cavity, a valve shaft mounted along said longitudinal axis and journalled through said shaft aperture so as to dispose a handle end of said valve shaft in said first handle cavity of said first handle, an opposite hollow end of said valve shaft, opposite to said handle end, mounted to said third tube whereby translation of said valve shaft along said longitudinal axis translates said third tube between seal open and seal closed positions, and wherein, in said seal closed position, said third tube is in a lockable position when said first tube is in a corresponding storage position nested in said second tube, a selectively releasable lock mounted to, for selectively releasable locking cooperation between said second tube and said third tube when said third tube is in said lockable position, wherein when said lock is locked by said telescopic motion of said first tube into said storage position in said second tube so as to engage said lock and whereby said third tube is immobilized relative to said second tube, wherein a sidewall of said second tube has a fluid-flow aperture formed therein, and wherein said second tube has an airflow aperture formed therein, upstream of said fluid-flow aperture relative to a direction of fluid flow from said vessel and through said first and second tubes when decanting a fluid from said vessel, downstream and upstream seals on respectively said downstream and upstream ends of said second and third tubes, said seals sealing so as to prevent, when said third tube is in said seal closed position, said fluid flow through said fluid-flow aperture, and said airflow through said airflow aperture respectively, wherein as said first tube is telescopically extended from said second tube said downstream end of said first tube extends from said vessel and said upstream end of said first tube disengages so as to unlock said lock, whereafter translation of said valve shaft into said first handle cavity retracts said third tube from said seal closed position into said seal open position to thereby unseal said upstream and downstream seals so as to open a fluid path for said fluid flow, whereby said fluid in said vessel flows through said fluid-flow aperture and said extended first tube to exit from said first tube, and so as to open an airflow path for said airflow through said first and second tubes, through said airflow aperture, and into said vessel, and wherein said second and third tubes are permanently contained in, so as to be protected within said vessel, and wherein said first tube when in said storage position in said second tube is contained in so as to be protected within said vessel.