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A fluid flow-control valve is housed within a fluid transport container or vessel. The valve is operated by a trigger actuating a plunger or shaft. The trigger is located in the handgrip space of a pouring handle so as to resiliently provide one-handed control of fluid flow from the vessel. The valv

A fluid flow-control valve is housed within a fluid transport container or vessel. The valve is operated by a trigger actuating a plunger or shaft. The trigger is located in the handgrip space of a pouring handle so as to resiliently provide one-handed control of fluid flow from the vessel. The valve is resiliently biased to a closed state. A telescopically extendable spout is attached to and housed within the main body of the valve and may include an integral breather passageway. When the spout is retracted it locks out the operation of the trigger.

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1. A valved fluid transport container comprising a hollow vessel having a spout aperture and a first handle oppositely disposed on said vessel to said spout aperture, said first handle having a corresponding handle cavity, said handle cavity having a handle side wall common with said vessel, said ha

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A valved fluid transport container comprising a hollow vessel having a spout aperture and a first handle oppositely disposed on said vessel to said spout aperture, said first handle having a corresponding handle cavity, said handle cavity having a handle side wall common with said vessel, said handle side wall having a shaft aperture therein, nested first, second and third tubes mounted in said spout aperture, each of said first, second and third tubes having opposite downstream and upstream ends, said downstream and upstream ends having openings therein,wherein said first tube is telescopically nested for first telescopic motion relative to and within said second tube, and said third tube is telescopically mounted on, for second telescopic motion relative to said second tube, and wherein said second tube is rigidly mounted into said spout aperture,and wherein said first and second telescopic motions are along a common centroidal longitudinal axis of said tubes, and wherein said longitudinal axis intersects said first handle cavity,a valve shaft mounted along said longitudinal axis and journalled through said shaft aperture so as to dispose a handle end of said valve shaft in said first handle cavity of said first handle, an opposite hollow end of said valve shaft, opposite to said handle end, mounted to said third tube whereby translation of said valve shaft along said longitudinal axis translates said third tube between seal open and seal closed positions, and wherein, in said seal closed position, said third tube is in a lockable position when said first tube is in a corresponding storage position nested in said second tube,a selectively releasable lock mounted to, for selectively releasable locking cooperation between said second tube and said third tube when said third tube is in said lockable position, wherein when said lock is locked by said telescopic motion of said first tube into said storage position in said second tube so as to engage said lock and whereby said third tube is immobilized relative to said second tube,wherein a sidewall of said second tube has a fluid-flow aperture formed therein, and wherein said second tube has an airflow aperture formed therein, upstream of said fluid-flow aperture relative to a direction of fluid flow from said vessel and through said first and second tubes when decanting a fluid from said vessel,downstream and upstream seals on respectively said downstream and upstream ends of said second and third tubes, said seals sealing so as to prevent, when said third tube is in said seal closed position, said fluid flow through said fluid-flow aperture, and said airflow through said airflow aperture respectively,wherein as said first tube is telescopically extended from said second tube said downstream end of said first tube extends from said vessel and said upstream end of said first tube disengages so as to unlock said lock, whereafter translation of said valve shaft into said first handle cavity retracts said third tube from said seal closed position into said seal open position to thereby unseal said upstream and downstream seals so as to open a fluid path for said fluid flow, whereby said fluid in said vessel flows through said fluid-flow aperture and said extended first tube to exit from said first tube, and so as to open an airflow path for said airflow through said first and second tubes, through said airflow aperture, and into said vessel,and wherein said second and third tubes are permanently contained in, so as to be protected within said vessel, and wherein said first tube when in said storage position in said second tube is contained in so as to be protected within said vessel. 2. The container of claim 1 wherein said first tube includes an air channel to separate said air flow from said fluid flow and so as to define an airflow path which is separated from said fluid flow path in said first tube. 3. The container of claim 2 wherein said vessel has an upper end and an opposite lower end, and a front end and an opposite back end, and wherein said spout aperture is in said front end and said first handle is on said back end, and wherein said tubes have upper sides and opposite lower sides, and wherein said air channel is formed along said upper side of said first tube. 4. The container of claim 3 wherein said air channel is formed within said first tube. 5. The container of claim 1 wherein said lock includes at least one dog positioned in said second tube so as to be engaged by said first tube when in said storage position, and wherein said engagement of said first tube with said at least one dog biases an end of said at least one dog into locking engagement with said third tube, when in said seal closed position. 6. The container of claim 5 wherein said at least one dog includes at least one flexible member. 7. The container of claim 6 wherein said at least one dog includes at least one end of a spring. 8. The container of claim 1 wherein a first spring is mounted in said second tube so as to resiliently compress and expand between an upstream end wall of said upstream end of said second tube and said upstream end of said first tube to thereby resiliently bias said first tube to telescopically extend outwardly of said second tube from said storage position. 9. The container of claim 8 further comprising a second spring cooperating with said valve shaft to resiliently urge said third tube into said seal closed position. 10. The container of claim 9 wherein said second spring cooperates between said valve shaft and said handle side wall. 11. The container of claim 8 further comprising a retainer cap releasably mountable onto, so as to cover, said spout aperture when said first tube is in said storage position. 12. The container of claim 3 wherein said valve shaft has a hollow end opposite said handle end, said hollow end in airflow communication with said third tube, and wherein said airflow aperture is formed in said hollow end of said valve shaft so that said airflow path flows serially through said channel, said second tube, and said hollow end of said valve shaft. 13. The container of claim 12 wherein said airflow aperture is in a lower side of said hollow end. 14. The container of claim 13 wherein said tubes are substantially cylindrical and wherein said hollow end is substantially cylindrical. 15. The container of claim 12 wherein said fluid-flow aperture is formed in a lower side of said downstream end of said second tube and in a lower side of said upstream end of said first tube. 16. The container of claim 12 further comprising a flashback screen mounted in said airflow path between said second tube and said airflow aperture. 17. The container of claim 1 wherein said tubes, said valve shaft, said spout aperture, said first handle and said first handle cavity all lie substantially in a common plane, said common plane substantially bisecting said vessel. 18. The container of claim 17 wherein said downstream end of said first tube is substantially flush with said spout aperture when in said storage position and wherein said handle end is substantially fully contained within said first handle cavity. 19. The container of claim 18 further comprising a second handle lying substantially in said common plane on said upper end of said vessel, said second handle for lifting and carrying said vessel. 20. The container of claim 19 further comprising a filling aperture on said upper end of said vessel, and wherein said second handle has a corresponding second handle cavity, and wherein said first handle cavity and said second handle cavity define a passageway therebetween within said vessel, and wherein said filling aperture is substantially aligned with said passageway so that said airflow escaping from said airflow aperture into said vessel rises through said passageway towards said filling aperture when said vessel is inclined forwardly to thereby tilt said longitudinal axis and said tubes for said decanting of said fluid flow, and further comprising a cap releasably mountable onto said filling aperture is releasably sealed by said cap. 21. The container of claim 12 wherein said airflow aperture is in an upper side of said hollow end. 22. The container of claim 21 further comprising a venting tube mounted to said airflow aperture so as to extend said venting tube upwardly within said vessel. 23. The container of claim 22 wherein said venting tube has an upper end, and wherein said venting tube is sufficiently long so as to position said upper end of said venting tube above the surface of the fluid contained in said vessel when said vessel is full of the fluid.