Instant Siphon

Instant Siphon FARM HOME Miscellaneous 13-1-23 "It's incredibly useful around the farm. People can't believe how easy it is to use," says George Haizer, inventor of a new "instant" siphon valve that makes siphoning liquids from one container to another as simple as shaking the end of a hose. Ordinarily when you want to siphon from one container to another you have to suck on one end of the hose or use a pump to get it started. With Haizer's amazing new siphon valve, all you do is slip it onto the end of a hose and shake it up and down two or three times while submerged in the liquid and it'll start siphoning instantly. The secret to Haizer's invention is a spring-loaded glass marble inside the valve. The marble floats, so when the valve is dipped into the liquid, it floats up, allowing liquid up into the hose. When you lift the hose back up, relieving the upward pressure of water inside the valve, a spring pushes the ball against the opening in the valve, trap-ping liquid in the hose and preventing it from escaping. When you drop the valve back down again, it forces more liquid up the hose. After two or three shakes, the liquid starts flowing just as it would if you had sucked or pumped on the hose to get it started. Haizer sells a 3/4-in. dia. valve, which fits both 1/2 and 3/4-in. hose, for $5. He also makes a larger 1-in. hose and is working on a 2-in. dia. model to use for flood irrigation and on other large-scale applications. For more information, contact FARM SHOW Followup, George Haizer, GMGJ, 22 River Rd., Eurobadalla, N.S.W. 2545 Australia (ph 04 473-5463)

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