Automatic stop cock valve
View Patent ↗A flow control device includes a fitting having three portals. One of the portals is an entry portal for a liquid, one of the portals is an entry portal for a gas, and the other portal is an exit portal for either the liquid or the gas. A normally closed back flow prevention valve is located in fitting. The back flow prevention valve prevents back flow of liquid through the fitting. The fitting and the backflow prevention valve also minimize or eliminate the formation of air bubbles in the liquid.
1. A flow control system, comprising:
a source for the flow of a first fluid;
a source for the flow of a second fluid;
means for switching between said flow of said first fluid and said flow of said second fluid;
a first line for said flow of said first fluid;
a second line for said flow of said second fluid; and
a fitting comprising:
a first entry portal for said first line;
a second entry portal for said second line;
an exit portal for either said first fluid or said second fluid;
a normally closed duck bill valve, said duck bill valve having first and second bill portions capable of being opened when said means for switching between said flow of said first fluid and said flow of said second fluid switches said flow of said first fluid to said flow of said second fluid; and
a receptacle having an internal surface closely mating with an external surface of said duck bill valve so as to minimize a gap volume between said receptacle and said external surface, dispose a tip of said first and second bill portions proximate said first flow of fluid, and dispose said first and second bill portions parallel to said flow of said first fluid.
2. The flow control system of claim 1 wherein:
said first line is an infusion line for a flow of liquid; and
said second line is a gas line for a flow of gas.
3. The flow control system of claim 2 whereby said disposing of said first and second bill portions parallel to said flow of said first fluid prevents turbulence and gas bubbles within said flow of said first fluid.