Re-Vac

Abstract

The RE-VAC invention is a housing, open on one end with an embedded sealing ring, and a port on the other end. The port allows insertion of a nipple and tube that is attached to a vacuum device. Or a housing, open on both ends with sealing rings embedded on each, and flanged ported lid. When the sealing ring on the open end of the housing is placed on a clean, hard, smooth non-porous surface, and firm pressure applied to the ported end, a vacuum chamber is created upon activation of the vacuum device. Air will be evacuated from any container with a lid, that was placed inside the housing. Releasing the chamber vacuum will not release the container vacuum.

1 . That the open ended housing that permits the evacuation of air inside sealed jars without any additional closing apparatus, other than a clean, hard, smooth, nonporous surface, such as a counter, desk, table top or tile, is the subject matter I regard as the invention. 
     
     
         2 . That the open ended housing be made in several sizes, from large to small, to provide for the efficient evacuation of air for smaller sized jars. 
     
     
         3 . That in lieu of different housing sizes, sealed volume reducing spacers be supplied to lift smaller jars higher in the housing, and thereby reduce the volume of air necessary to be evacuated to achieve a complete vacuum, decreasing the time required for evacuation of smaller sized jars. 
     
     
         4 . That an open ended housing be combined with one or more open ended housings that bayonet into each other and contain a seal at the joining surfaces and any other end where necessary, so that when they mate, they create a sealed vacuum chamber with each other and any clean, hard, smooth nonporous surface. 
     
     
         5 . That when one or more open ended housings with embedded seals on both ends, are combined with a flanged lid, they will create a vacuum chamber with the lid and any clean, hard, smooth nonporous surface.