Patent ID: 8899283

Claim:
A device for dividing up a volume of liquid contained in an original container by filling bottles that are smaller than the original container, comprising: a source of pressurized gas; a first line running from the source of pressurized gas and opening into the original container so as to place it under pressure; and a line for withdrawing the contents of the original container, connecting the latter to one of the smaller bottles, wherein said device comprises: a second line running from the source of pressure gas and ending in the smaller bottle to be filled, and valve means for closing and opening certain of said lines, which can only be activated in a fixed sequence so that gas flow starts in the second line before liquid starts to flow in the withdrawing line and stops after this flow of liquid has stopped; and wherein the valve means comprise directional control slide valves, the opening and closing of the two lines being ensured by a single activating handle which comprises a lever hinged about a pivot at one of its ends and which acts on push-rods of the directional control valve slides, located in the angular sector passed through by the lever during its motion about its pivot.