BALL VALVE DEVICE

• US 20180195625A1
• Filed: 12/12/2017
• Published: 07/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chieh-An Hung
• Original Assignee: Chieh-An Hung
• Inventors: HUNG, Chieh-An
• Application Number:
  US15/838,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20180195625A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 27/067 with spherical plugs
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/602 Pivoting levers, e.g. single-sided F16K31/605 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 5/0605 with particular plug arrangements, e.g. particular shape or built-in means
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 5/0626 Easy mounting or dismounting means

Abstract

A ball valve device contains: a body and a hollow threaded tube. The body includes an operation handle, a chamber opened/closed by the operation handle, an outlet formed on a first end of the body and communicating with the chamber, a connection portion formed on a second end of the body and communicating with the chamber, at least one protrusion extending outward from the connection portion, and a connector connecting and communicating with the connection portion. The threaded tube includes a fitting portion formed on a first end of the threaded tube and fitted on the connection portion, a threaded section arranged on a second end of the threaded tube, and at least one recess corresponding to the at least one protrusion, wherein the connector is fitted in the threaded tube, and the at least one protrusion retains in the at least one recess of the body.

Claims

1. A ball valve device comprising:

a body including an operation handle, a chamber defined in the body and being opened/closed by the operation handle, an outlet formed on a first end of the body and communicating with the chamber, a connection portion formed on a second end of the body and communicating with the chamber, at least one protrusion extending outward from a peripheral side of the connection portion, and a connector connecting and communicating with the connection portion; and

a threaded tube being hollow, and the threaded tube including a fitting portion formed on a first end of the threaded tube which faces the body and fitted on the connection portion of the body, a threaded section arranged on a second end of the threaded tube, and at least one recess corresponding to the at least one protrusion, wherein the connector is fitted in the threaded tube, and the at least one protrusion retains in the at least one recess of the body.

2. The ball valve device as claimed in claim 1, wherein two protrusions extend outward from the body and are opposite to each other, and the fitting portion of the threaded tube includes two recesses retaining with the two protrusions individually.

3. The ball valve device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body further includes a positioning groove defined on the peripheral side of the connection portion adjacent to the at least one protrusion, the threaded tube further includes a screwing orifice corresponding to the positioning groove of the connection portion, and a lamination element is screwed in the positioning groove of the body via the screwing orifice of the threaded tube so as to fix the threaded tube and the body.

4. The ball valve device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connector of the body has at least one surrounding trough arranged on an outer wall thereof, and the ball valve device further comprises at least one O ring fitted in the at least one surrounding trough of the body, wherein the at least one O ring abuts against the at least one surrounding trough of the connector and the threaded tube.

5. The ball valve device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connector of the body has three surrounding troughs arranged on an outer wall thereof, and the ball valve device further comprises three O rings fitted in the three surrounding troughs of the body respectively, wherein the three O rings respectively abut against the three surrounding troughs of the connector and the threaded tube.

6. The ball valve device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one recess of the threaded tube is in an L shape, and the at least one recess has an opening defined on one end thereof and facing the chamber of the body so that the at least one protrusion moves to and horizontally retains in the at least one L-shaped recess via the opening.