Swing check valve

• US 4,141,381 A
• Filed: 10/12/1976
• Issued: 02/27/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Brookfield Asset Management Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Brookfield Asset Management Incorporated)
• Inventors: Eminger, Harry E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nilson, Robert G.
• Application Number:
  US05/731,389
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: 137/527-527.8, 137/855-858, 251/298
• US Class Current: 137/527.2
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 15/03 with a hinged closure member or with a pivoted closure member
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 27/0232 the valve member retained by a removable closure
• CPC Class Codes: G21D 1/02 Arrangements of auxiliary equipment
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 30/00 Energy generation of nuclear origin
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 30/30 Nuclear fission reactors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/79 Head retained by removable closure
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/7901 Valve head movably connected for accommodation to seat

Abstract

A swing check valve which includes a valve body having an inlet and outlet. A recess in the valve body designed to hold a seal ring and a check valve disc swingable between open and closed positions. The disc is supported by a high strength wire secured at one end in a support spacer pinned through bearing blocks fixed to the valve body and at its other end in a groove formed on the outer peripheral surface of the disc. The parts are designed and chosen such to provide a lightweight valve disc which is held open by minimum velocity of fluid flowing through the valve which thus reduces oscillations and accompanying wear of bearings supporting the valve operating parts.

Claims

1. A swing check valve for facilitating flow of liquid in a forward direction while precluding reverse flow through the valve comprising:

a valve body having an inlet and an outlet;

a recessed portion in the central part of said valve of a size sufficient to accept a sealing ring which is welded therein;

a lightweight swing check valve disc assembly mounted in said valve body;

said check valve disc assembly including mounting means on one end thereof removably mounted in the valve body;

spaced flexible arms interconnecting said mounting means with a valve disc designed to selectively engage and provide a seal with said seal ring;

said spaced flexible arms including a bar of spring steel which is substantially closed on itself and has the two arm ends of said bar placed in close proximity to each other and fitted into said mounting means on the valve body, the remaining portion of said bar being secured to said disc to provide a lightweight disc assembly; and

said valve disc assembly being arranged to swing into said recessed area from a substantially vertical closed valve position to a substantially horizontal valve open position when subjected to the velocity of liquid flowing through said valve.

2. A swing check valve for facilitating flow of liquid in a forward direction while precluding reverse flow through the valve comprising:

a valve body having an inlet and an outlet;

a recessed portion in the central part of said valve of a size sufficient to accept a sealing ring which is welded therein;

a lightweight swing check valve disc assembly mounted in said valve body;

said check valve disc assembly including mounting means on one end thereof removably mounted in the valve body;

spaced flexible arms interconnecting said mounting means with a valve disc designed to selectively engage and provide a seal with said seal ring;

said spaced flexible arms including a bar of spring steel shaped to the configuration of said disc, and said disc having a groove in its outer peripheral surface of a depth sufficient to loosely accept the bar of spring steel;

said bar being essentially closed on itself and the free ends thereof being secured in said mounting means mounted in the valve body; and

said valve disc assembly being arranged to swing into said recessed area from a substantially vertical closed valve position to a substantially horizontal valve open position when subjected to the velocity of liquid flowing through said valve.

3. A swing check valve for facilitating flow of liquid in a forward direction while precluding reverse flow through the valve comprising:

a valve body having an inlet and an outlet;

a recessed portion in the central part of said valve of a size sufficient to accept a sealing ring which is welded therein;

a lightweight swing check valve disc assembly mounted in said valve body;

said check valve disc assembly including mounting means on one end thereof removably mounted in the valve body;

spaced flexible arms interconnecting said mounting means with a valve disc designed to selectively engage and provide a seal with said seal ring;

said spaced flexible arms comprising a bar of spring steel of circular cross section having the main body thereof attached to said valve disc and the other free ends thereof secured to said mounting means; and

said mounting means including a spacer arranged to accept the ends of said bar, and means supporting said spacer mounted in the valve body for permitting swinging movement of said valve disc assembly into said recessed area from a substantially vertical closed valve position to a substantially horizontal valve open position when subjected to the velocity of liquid flowing through said valve.

4. A swing check valve for facilitating flow of liquid in a forward direction while precluding reverse flow through the valve comprising:

a valve body having an inlet and an outlet;

a recessed portion in the central part of said valve of a size sufficient to accept a sealing ring which is welded therein;

a lightweight swing check valve disc assembly mounted in said valve body;

said check valve disc assembly including mounting means on one end thereof removably mounted in the valve body;

spaced flexible arms interconnecting said mounting means with a valve disc designed to selectively engage and provide a seal with said seal ring;

said mounting means comprising a pair of spaced bearing blocks fitted in said valve body;

a pin interconnecting said blocks and

a support spacer mounted on the central portion of said pin between said bearing blocks, and means securing said spaced flexible arms to said support spacer so that when the bearing blocks are placed in position on said housing, the disc assembly including said arms and disc is permitted to rotate between substantially vertical and horizontal positions in response to liquid flowing through said valve.

5. The combination according to claim 4 wherein said means securing said arms to said spacer includes openings in said spacer for said arms which intersect the opening for said pin;

and

notches in each of said arms which have a surface complementary to the surface of said pin, the arrangement being such that when said arms are positioned in said spacer openings and the notches aligned with the pin opening, the pin may be inserted in said pin opening and said notches to thereby lock the arms to said spacer through the medium of said pin.