Tapping device for a bag-in-box package and actuating apparatus and cartridge therefor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9834424
APP PUB NO 20160194186A1
SERIAL NO

14916833

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The invention relates to a tapping device for at least one bag-in-carton package equipped with a tapping valve. The tapping device has a housing for receiving the bag-in-carton package and an actuating unit which corresponds with the tapping valve and which has a valve-receiving bearing and at least one actuating portion for actuating the tapping valve. The actuating portion is articulated on the valve-receiving bearing by a pivot pin, has an upwardly directed lever arm and is arranged completely within the housing. Upstream of a contact region which is situated above the pivot pin on the lever arm there is arranged an actuating portion which engages through the housing and acts on the lever arm in the contact region in order to actuate the tapping valve by way of the actuating portion and can be actuated manually from outside the housing. The invention further relates to the actuating unit and to a cassette for the tapping device.

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SQUELL PRODUKTION UND HANDEL GMBH68766 HOCKENHEIM

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Samson, Rainer Munster, DE 7 40

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