Valve for speed filling a dunnage bag
View Patent ↗A nozzle for accelerating filling a container with gas up to a required gas pressure including a barrel having venturi openings in a side of said barrel and a sleeve that, in one position uncovers the tunnels and in another position, closes off the openings. In another version the nozzle further includes a pressure chamber, having a wall coupled to the sleeve. In a contracted position the sleeve is moved by the wall of the chamber to close off the tunnels. In another position of the wall where the chamber is in an expanded position the tunnels are so as to increase the rate of flow.
1. A nozzle for filling a container with a gas from a pressurized source of gas, comprising:
a barrel having an entry end of said barrel adapted for communication with said pressurized source and an exit end adapted for communication with said container;
said barrel having plurality of tunnels extending from an exit opening at an interior surface of said barrel to an entrance opening at an exterior surface of said barrel
said exit opening at said interior surface of said barrel being closer to said entry opening than said entrance opening at said exterior surface;
a sleeve adapted for telescopingly sliding on said barrel where, in a slow flow position of said sleeve, said sleeve on said barrel covers said tunnels preventing gas from flowing through said tunnels and in a non flow position of said sleeve on said barrel, said gas is able to flow through said tunnels;
a flange mounted integrally on said barrel;
a jacket having one end integrally mounted on said sleeve and another end telescoping onto said flange arranged to provide an expandable pressure chamber defined by an interior surface of said jacket, said flange, said exterior surface of said sleeve, and an end surface of said sleeve;
an opening in said barrel arrange to provide communication between said pressure chamber and an interior region of said barrel;
a compression spring having one end abutting a surface of said flange and another end of said spring abutting a member of said jacket;
said compression spring, being outside said compression chamber;
said compression spring, flange, barrel, sleeve, jacket all arranged in operable combination to provide that when gas pressure in said barrel increases, a size of said pressure chamber increases, said spring is compressed, and said sleeve is forced toward a position where said sleeve closes said tunnels and when said gas pressure in said barrel decreases, said sleeve is forced toward a position where said tunnels are open.
2. The nozzle of claim 1 wherein a position of said member is adjustable.
3. The nozzle of claim 2 further comprising a valve means inside said barrel for closing said valve when pressure in said barrel reaches a critical value.
4. The nozzle of claim 3 wherein said valve means comprises:
a pair of seat rings positioned concentrically inside said barrel;
one of said seat rings positioned closest to said exit end of said barrel;
a plate positioned concentrically between said set rings;
a compression spring having one end abutting one said seat ring closest to said entrance end of said nozzle and another end abutting said plate;
a tube fitting snugly and anchored to an inside surface of barrel ,
an entry shoulder on an entry end of the tube;
said tube having an internal thread on an exit end of said tube;
a stop ring screwed into the threaded end of tube;
a moveable valve plate adjacent said entry shoulder;
a compression spring having one end abutting a surface of said valve plate opposite said entry shoulder;
another end of said spring abutting said stop ring arrange to provide that said compression spring forces said valve plate toward said entry shoulder 36 with a spring force adjustable by adjusting position of the stop ring in the threaded end of tube and providing that when air pressure is initially applied to the entrance end of the nozzle, said valve plate is forced away from said entry shoulder allowing gas to flow through said nozzle into said container and when pressure in said container reaches a value preset by positioning stop ring, then said valve plate is forced against entry shoulder 36 and stops flow of gas through said nozzle.