Control valve

• US 3,234,967 A
• Filed: 06/10/1963
• Issued: 02/15/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alfred J. Munn, Harmon A. Poole Jr
• Original Assignee: Alfred J. Munn, Harmon A. Poole Jr
• Inventors: Munn, Alfred J., Poole, Harmon A. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/286,586
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• US Class Current: 137/625.45
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 11/06 comprising only sliding valves , i.e. sliding closure elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86855 Gate

Claims

1. A VALVE COMPRISING A BODY PROVIDED WITH CHAMBER MEANS HAVING INLET MEANS FRO CONNECTION TO A SUPPLY OF GAS UNDER PRESSURE AND HAVING TWO INDEPENDENT OUTLETS FOR DIRECTING THE GAS TO ITS POINT OF USE, A FIXED ELEMENT IN SAID CHAMBER MEANS HAVING A PAIR OF ALIGNED OPENINGS DISPOSED IN A COMMON PLANE AT OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID ELEMENT AND HAVING A PARTITION BETWEEN SAID OPENINGS FOR ISOLATING SAID OPENINGS FROM EACH OTHER, BOTH OF SAID OPENINGS AT EACH SIDE BEING IN FLOW COMMUNICATION WITH SAID INLET MEANS UPSTREAM OF SAID OUTLETS AND EACH OF SAID OPENINGS AT EACH SIDE BEING IN FLOW COMMUNICATION WITH ONLY ONE OF SAID OUTLETS, A CONTROL MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF CONNECTED PLATE PORTIONS MOUNTED FOR SLIDING MOVEMENT ACROSS SAID OPENINGS AT THE UPSTREAM SIDE OF SAID OPENINGS AT EACH SIDE AND EACH PLATE PORTION BEING CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED FOR OPENING ONE OF SAID OPENINGS WHILE CLOSING THE OTHER OF SAID OPENINGS AND VICE VERSA AT ONE SIDE OF SAID ELEMENT, AND MEANS FOR EFFECTING MOVEMENT OF SAID CONTROL MEMBER.