Patent ID: 8678249

Claim:
A mounting system for mounting a valve for accommodating flow of a substance from a supply of the substance, wherein said valve includes: (1) a peripheral attachment portion; (2) a flexible, resilient, intermediate portion extending from said peripheral attachment portion; and (3) a flexible, resilient head that extends from said intermediate portion, and that has (a) a first side, (b) a second side, (c) at least two self-sealing slits through said head, (d) a laterally marginal portion adjacent said intermediate portion, and (e) at least three confronting, openable portions along said slits to define an initially closed orifice wherein said valve head openable portions can move to an open configuration, the head being thicker in transverse cross section than the intermediate portion; said mounting system comprising: (A) a retention structure to engage and hold said valve peripheral attachment portion; (B) an annular flange located to extend over at least a portion of said valve intermediate portion adjacent said laterally marginal portion of the flexible resilient head; a unitary housing defining said annular flame and at least part of said retention structure, said housing defines a through passage, and said valve is initially separate from, but subsequently attachable to, said housing across said through passage; and wherein said flow of said substance from said supply is via a probe that selectively penetrates said valve, and said annular flange includes a probe directing surface sloped toward said valve head as said surface extends inward radially.