ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,105, issued on Aug. 5.
"Beer bottling flow control apparatus" was invented by Pierre Vincent Boucher (Georgetown, Guyana).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottling apparatus includes a valve block having several valves that are configured to selectively open or close a respective tubing line of several tubing lines that pass through the valve block. The valves are each individually controlled by a respective cam wheel that are all rotatable about a common axis that is in line with the valves. Each valve is at a valve position relative to the cam wheel. Each cam wheel includes a cam about its circumference that has one or more reliefs i...