Multi-handle beverage dispensing valve

摘要

Applicants' invention may retrofit or may be provided initially with a dispensing valve and comprises a second handle, interacting with a valve and/or a valve first handle for dispensing a beverage from the valve. Applicants' invention comprises a valve body typically having at least a pair of handles, one typically upstanding and one downwardly depending both which separately may be moved to actuate the dispensing mechanism within the valve to dispense a beverage therefrom.

主权项

1. A beverage dispensing device, comprising:
a beverage dispensing valve having a multiplicity of linearly moving vertically aligned activation members, a valve body, a valve top at a near end of the body, a nozzle at a removed end of the valve body, the valve body having a vertical axis; a first handle member having a removed end and engaging the activation members and extending at least partly upward from the valve top; and a second depending handle member having a removed end and a base adjacent the valve top, the second depending handle member depending downward from the top of the valve body, and lay adjacent and to a side of the vertical axis of the valve body, and trend substantially parallel to the vertical axis when in a first, non-dispensing position; the first handle member and the second depending handle member configured such that moving either handle member from a first, non-dispensing position to a second, dispensing position activates the activation members and initiate a flow of a beverage from the nozzle of the valve body;
wherein the activation members extend upward from the valve top and further include a pin for engaging the removed end thereof to the first handle member and the second depending handle member.