Flow regulating apparatus

Claim 1

FLOW REGULATING APPARATUS COMPRISING BODY MEANS DEFINING AN AREA FOR RECEIVING A FLEXIBLE TUBULAR MEMBER, OPERATING MEANS MOVABLY SUPPORTED BY SAID BODY MEANS AND INCLUDING TUBE ENGAGING MEANS IN POSITION TO ENGAGE A FLEXIBLE TUBULAR MEMBER DISPOSED WITHIN SAID AREA, THE TUBE ENGAGING MEANS AND THE BODY MEANS COOPERATING UPON RELATIVE MOVEMENT THEREBETWEEN TO ADJUSTABLY CONTROL THE AMOUNT OF LIQUID FLOWING THROUGH A TUBULAR MEMBER DISPOSED WITHIN SAID AREA, SAID OPERATING MEANS BEING ROTATABLY SUPPORTED BY SAID BODY MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE TUBE ENGAGING MEANS AND THE AREA, SAID BODY MEANS INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND INDICATING MEANS FORMED THEREON, SAID OPERATING MEANS INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND INDICATING MEANS THEREON, THE FIRST INDICATING MEANS ON SAID BODY MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SPACED VISIBLE LINES, THE FIRST INCIDATING MEANS ON SAID OPERATING MEANS COMPRISING A FLANGE PORTION, SAID FLANGE PORTION BEING ADAPTED TO BE ALIGNED WITH SAID LINES UPON RELATIVE ROTATION, RECIPROCATION BETWEEN THE OPERATING MEANS AND THE BODY MEANS TO INDICATE THE NUMBER OF COMPLETE REVOLUTIONS OF MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID OPERATING MEANS AND SAID BODY MEANS, THE SECOND INDICATING MEANS ON SAID BODY MEANS COMPRISING AN INDICATOR RIB, THE SECOND INDICATOR MEANS ON SAID OPERATING MEANS COMPRISING INDICATING RIBS AND INDICIA, SAID SECOND INDICATING MEANS ON SAID BODY MEANS AND SAID OPERATING MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO INDICATE PARTIAL REVOLUTIONS OF SAID OPERATING MEANS WITH RESPECT TO SAID BODY MEANS.