Patent ID: 6412518
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: B65D,B65G,Y10T

Abstract:
Apparatus for off-loading incoherent material from a container, for dispensing the incoherent material itself along a determined feeding route and towards a user unit, comprising a valve organ positioned in correspondence with an outlet of said container and a conduit having an axis, a first and a second extremity; the axis developing parallel to said route; the first extremity being releasably associated to said valve organ and the second extremity being connectable with said user unit; said valve organ comprising a shutter element, movable between an extreme position of air tight closure and one of opening of the outflow port of said feeding conduit, and provided with a first closure element and with a second closure element and actuator means directly connected to said first closure element; the second closure element being removably positionable on the first extremity of the conduit; said valve organ further comprising connecting means able to associate mutually and in releasable manner said first closure element and second closure element making said first closure element and said second closure element mutually adherent along a plane of substantial mutual tangency and of mutual detachment.