Hydraulic cleaning apparatus

• US 3,147,767 A
• Filed: 06/22/1962
• Issued: 09/08/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John B. Goss
• Original Assignee: John B. Goss
• Inventors: Goss, John B.
• Application Number:
  US04/204,447
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• US Class Current: 137/879
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 3/044 Hand-held cleaning arrangements with liquid or gas distributing means B60S3/045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86171 With pump bypass
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87845 For valve having a ball head
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/87877 Single inlet with multiple distinctly valved outlets

Claims

1. A SOLENOID ACTUATED VALVE COMBINATION INCLUDING:

(A) A BODY HAVING INLET AND OUTLET FLUID FLOW PASSAGES THEREIN, (B) A VALVE MEMBER IN SAID BODY FOR OPENING AND CLOSING ONE OF SAID OUTLET FLUID FLOW PASSAGES, (C) ROD MEANS EXTENDING INTO SAID BODY FOR ENGAGING SAID VALVE MEMBER TO OPEN SAID ONE OF SAID OUTLET FLUID FLOW PASSAGES, (D) PIVOTALLY MOUNTED LEVER MEANS HAVING INNER AND OUTER ENDS, (E) PIVOT MEANS DISPOSED NEAR SAID INNER END FOR PIVOTING LEVER MEANS IN RELATION TO SAID BODY, (F) SOLENOID MEANS ABUTTING SAID LEVER MEANS NEAR SAID OUTER END AND MOVEABLE THEREAGAINST WHEN ENERGIZED TO PERMIT SAID VALVE MEMBER TO CLOSE, (G) A PRESSURE ACTUATED VALVE IN A SECOND OUTLET FLUID FLOW PASSAGE ADAPTED TO OPEN FOR REDUCING THE PRESSURE IN SAID BODY TO A PREDETERMINED AMOUNT PRIOR TO OPENING OF SAID ONE OF SAID OUTLET FLUID PASSAGES, AND (H) SPRING MEANS ABUTTING SAID LEVER MEANS AND ADAPTED TO OPEN SAID VALVE MEMBER WHEN THE PRESSURE IN SAID BODY IS SUCH THAT SAID PRESSURE ACTUATED VALVE IS CLOSED.