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Slide valve

  • US 4,817,915 A
  • Filed: 12/16/1987
  • Issued: 04/04/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1986
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A slide valve assembly which comprisesa valve housing which includes a pair of flange members and a plurality of casing members positioned between said flange members so as to fixedly position said flange members in parallel with one another, each of said flange members having openings therein to form a fluid flow passage through the valve housing, and each of said flange members having a seating surface surrounding the opening therein on a side thereof which faces the other flange member, anda valve closure control device which is movable between said flange members of said valve housing into and out of a closure position within said valve housing at which said valve closure control device functions to block said fluid flow passage in said valve housing, said valve closure control device includinga frame means,a first and second closure plates supported by said frame means so as to extend in parallel with said flange members, said first closure plate including three triangularly-arranged cam projections on a side thereof which faces said second closure plate and said second closure plate including three triangularly-arranged cam projections on a side thereof which faces said first closure plate, each of said cam projections including a first surface portion which is inclined relative to the associated closure plate,resilient means positioned between said first and second closure plates to urge them towards one another, andtwo spaced apart shafts mounted on said frame means and extending between said first and second closure plates, each said shaft including three roll bodies thereon, two of said three roll bodies on each said shaft being capable of contacting and rolling along the first surface portions of two cam projections on one of said closure plates and the third of said three roll bodies on each said shaft being capable of contacting and rolling along the first surface portion of a cam projection on the other of said closure plates,movement of said valve closure control device into said closure position causing said roll bodies on each of said shafts to contact said cam projections of each of said first and second closure plates to move said closure plates apart and into respective contact with said valve seating surfaces of said flange members.

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