Patent ID: 7360670
Filing Date: 2008-04-22
Classification: B67D

Abstract:
1. A dispenser for non-carbonated consumable liquids compnsing: (a) a compartment for receiving a flexible, at least partially collapsible container of consumable liquid, in a container receiving location therein below a counter, (b) a compressed gas activated pressure applicator secured at a location contiguous to the container receiving location and adapted to apply container-collapsing pressure to the container in the container receiving location, (c) a liquid dispensing location above the counter, (d) a consumable liquid flow channel for routing at least one removable, flexible consumable liquid delivery tube from a container in the below-counter container receiving location to the above-counter liquid dispensing location and thereby defining a liquid flow path communicating between the container receiving location and the liquid dispensing location, (e) a consumable liquid control dose regulating valve operatively connected to contact the exterior of the liquid delivery tube to open and close the flow path and control the dispensing of consumable liquid at the liquid dispensing location; and (f) the dose regulating valve comprising a slide slidably received in a housing, a biasing element urging the slide away from a dispensing position to a home position in the housing at which the slide defines, with the housing, a chamber, a liquid inlet opening into the chamber through the housing, connected, in use, to the container of consumable liquid via the flow channel, a liquid dispensing opening in the housing closed by the slide when the slide is in the home position, and a liquid path formed in a portion of the slide, the liquid path extending from an opening into the chamber to an opening movable into alignment with the liquid dispensing opening when the slide is moved against a force of the biasing element to the dispensing position.