| 摘要 |
In a beverage dispenser of the type in which conditioned liquid is to be tapped through a bottom opening of a bowl normally closed from within by a valve member, unseating of the valve member and attendant gravitational release of liquid are conveniently brought about by tilting a wider Z-shaped sheet-metal handle which is keyed with the valve member to form an interlocked valving assembly further including only a spring and a suspension provided by external bowl flanges. The valve member, which has a flattened end projecting through the bowl to key itself locked within an opening of cooperating shape in the center portion of the handle, is biased closed by the surrounding spring trapped in a compressed condition between the handle and the underside of the bowl, and the keyed interlocking with the end of the valve member holds the handle in a desired lateral fit within frontal notches of the flanges for pivotal movements allowing it to raise the valve member in its sleeving for release of beverage through a lower center opening fed by upper lateral openings. Once it is angularly keyed into place, the valve member cannot be accidentally dislodged, because small tabs struck integrally from the handle are disposed to engage and align its flattened end each time the handle is tilted either by pulling an upstanding end or pushing its other depending end. Advantageously, sealing of the valve may be tightened, against constrictions offered by solids from the liquid, for example, by forcing the handle ends in directions opposite to those which cause liquid to be dispensed.
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