Valved mechanism

• US 3,078,068 A
• Filed: 07/18/1960
• Issued: 02/19/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Russell H. Romney
• Original Assignee: Russell H. Romney
• Inventors: Romney, Russell H.
• Application Number:
  US04/043,406
• Time in Patent Office: 946 Days
• US Class Current: 251/149.2
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 37/101 in which the coupling is coaxial with the pipe
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 37/373 with two taps or cocks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87949 Linear motion of flow path sections operates both

Claims

1. A VALVED MECHANISM OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED, COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A BODY HAVING A CYLINDRICAL HOLE WHICH EXTENDS TRANSVERSELY THERETHROUGH, SAID BODY HAVING THEREIN A PLURALITY OF PASSAGES WHICH EMANATE FROM SAID CYLINDRICAL HOLE AND WHICH EMERGE FROM SAID BODY SO AS TO COMMUNICATE WITH COOPERATING MEANS;

A CYLINDRICAL PLUG MOUNTED SNUGLY BUT ROTATABLY IN SAID CYLINDRICAL HOLE, SAID PLUG HAVING AT LEAST ONE PASSAGE WHICH EXTENDS THERETHROUGH AND WHICH IS POSITIONED THEREIN SO AS TO COOPERATE WITH SAID PASSAGES IN SAID BODY;

A SLEEVE MOUNTED SNUGLY BUT SLIDABLY ON SAID BODY AND EXTENDING OVER SAID HOLE IN WHICH SAID PLUG IS MOUNTED, SAID PLUG AND SAID SLEEVE BEING MUTUALLY ADAPTED TO PREVENT DISPLACEMENT OF SAID PLUG IN THE DIRECTION OF THE PLUG'"'"''"'"'S ROTATIONAL AXIS;

CRANK MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID PLUG AND SAID SLEEVE SO THAT LONGITUDINAL SLIDING OF SAID SLEEVE ON SAID BODY CAUSES ROTATION OF SAID PLUG IN SAID BODY, SAID ROTATION CAUSING SAID PLUG TO ACT AS A VALVE INTERMEDIATE SAID PASSAGES IN SAID BODY.