Cooling tower flow control inlet valve

• US 10,365,050 B1
• Filed: 06/05/2017
• Issued: 07/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Carl Hare
• Original Assignee: Carl Hare
• Inventors: Hare, Carl
• Primary Examiner(s): Bastianelli, John
• Application Number:
  US15/614,598
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• Field of Search: 251 92- 93, 251285, 251318, 251264, 251274, 251205, 251229
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/02 with screw-spindle F16K1/12 - F16K1/28 take precedence; actuating mechanisms with screw-spindles F16K31/50
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/50 with screw-spindle or internally threaded actuating means
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 35/00 Means to prevent accidental or unauthorised actuation
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 25/02 for distributing, circulating, and accumulating liquid spraying or atomising in general B05B, B05D
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 27/003 specially adapted for cooling towers

Abstract

A cooling tower by using a valve with an adjustable disk. Thus, a cooling tower flow control inlet valve for modulating the flow of return water entering a cooling tower by using a valve with an adjustable disk. The cooling tower flow control inlet valve includes a valve body assembly, a valve stem assembly, a backplate assembly, and a valve and permits regulated flow through the spatial rotational placement along the valve stem of the adjustable disk.

Claims

1. A cooling tower flow control inlet valve comprising a valve body assembly, a valve stem assembly, a back plate assembly, a valve disk, an external adjustment handle, and an external jam nut, wherein said valve disk is adjustable through spatial rotational placement along said valve stem assembly through operation of said external adjustment handle, wherein said adjustable value disk is locked into place along said valve stem assembly with said external jam nut, wherein said back plate assembly provides a buttress to provide a limit to adjustable value disk movement along said valve stem wherein said position of said adjustable value disk allows for controlled flow of fluid within said valve body assembly, and wherein said adjustable value disk is within the confines of said valve body assembly.

2. The inlet valve of claim 1 wherein said adjustable disk moves along said valve stem through a screw-type threaded configuration.

3. The inlet valve of claim 1 wherein said adjustable disk is configured with a flat disk face.

4. The inlet valve of claim 3 wherein said valve body assembly includes a flat wall component through which fluid flows therein;

wherein said flat disk face of said adjustable disk is parallel with said flat wall and, when flush with said flat wall, said flat disk face prevents passage of fluid through said flat wall into said valve body assembly.

5. A cooling tower including the inlet valve of claim 1.

6. A cooling tower including the inlet valve of claim 2.

7. A cooling tower including the inlet valve of claim 3.

8. A cooling tower including the inlet valve of claim 4.