Medical valve

• US 3,276,472 A
• Filed: 12/03/1963
• Issued: 10/04/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles C. Waldbillig, Charles W. Jinkens
• Original Assignee: Charles C. Waldbillig, Charles W. Jinkens
• Inventors: Jinkens, Charles W., Waldbillig, Charles C.
• Application Number:
  US04/327,685
• Time in Patent Office: 1,036 Days
• US Class Current: 137/556
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/223 Multiway valves
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 251/904 Snap fit plug valves
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/8275 Indicator element rigidly carried by the movable element whose position is indicated
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86823 Rotary valve

Claims

1. A VALVE COMPRISING A CUP SHAPED CASING OF CIRCULAR CROSS SECTION HAVING A PLURALITY OF DUCTS EXTENDING FROM THE INTERIOR OF SAID CASING TO THE EXTERIOR OF SAID CASING, SAID DUCTS BEING FORMED IN PART BY ELONGATED SPIGOTS PROJECTING RADIALLY FROM SAID CASING, SAID CASING HAVING AN INTERNAL ANNULAR GROOVE ABOVE SAID DUCTS, A CIRCULAR PLUG HAVING A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL SURFACE, AN EXTERNAL ANNULAR RIB ON THE UPPER PORTION OF SAID PLUG IN SEALING AND LOCKING ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID ANNULAR GROOVE, SAID PLUG HAVING A RECESS IN ITS LOWER END AND AXIALLY EXTENDING FLOW CHANNELS IN THE CYLINDRICAL SURFACE OF SAID PLUG COMMUNICATING WITH SAID RECESS WHILE EXTENDING ABOVE SAID RECESS BUT TERMINATING BELOW SAID RIB, SAID CHANNELS BEING SELECTIVELY ALIGNABLE WITH SAID DUCTS, AND ELONGATED HANDLE ARMS ON SAID PLUG EXTENDING OUTWARDLY THEREFROM, SAID ARMS BEING IN THE SAME ANGULAR POSITIONS AS SAID CHANNELS, SAID HANDLE ARMS BEING ALIGNABLE WITH SAID SPIGOTS.