Flow control valve

• US 4,901,976 A
• Filed: 08/28/1989
• Issued: 02/20/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sudsmith Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sudsmith Incorporated
• Inventors: Smith, Richard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nilson, Robert G.
• Application Number:
  US07/398,965
• Time in Patent Office: 176 Days
• Field of Search: 251/206, 251/325, 251/364, 251/900
• US Class Current: 251/206
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/046 Adding soap, disinfectant, or the like in the supply line or at the water outletpreventing contamination of drinking-water pipes E03C1/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 251/90 Valves with o-rings

Abstract

A fluid flow control valve for a fixture having a conduit for the passage of a fluid through the fixture comprises a valve rod that is manually slideable through a hole in the fixture to intercept the conduit at right angles. The rod has a plurality of various apertures through the diameter, each alignable with the conduit and sealed of by an O-ring around the rod to prevent leakage along the rod. In addition, novel saddle shaped O-rings closely surrounding the conduit and conforming to the arcuate surface of the valve rod prevent peripheral leakage around the surface of the valve rod in its "off" position.

Claims

1. In a fixture having a tubular conduit for the passage of a fluid, valve means for controlling the flow of the fluid comprising:

a valve rod having an arcuate surface, said rod longitudinally movable through a tubular hole through the fixture to intercept the conduit at substantially right angles;

at least one diametrical valving aperture through said valve rod, said aperture being alignable with said conduit;

a pair of O-rings in grooves around said valve rod, said grooves located on each side of said aperture to prevent fluid leakage between said conduit and the exterior of said fixture; and

first and second saddle O-rings surrounding said conduit and conforming to the arcuate surface of said valve rod, said saddle O-rings positioned at the junction of said conduit with opposite arcuate surfaces of said valve rod.

2. The valve means claimed in claim 1 wherein said valve rod contains a plurality of diametrical valving apertures, said rod further containing at least one O-ring between the outermost of said plurality and the end of said rod for preventing fluid leakage from said fixture from between the surface of said rod and the wall of said tubular hole.

3. The valve means claimed in claim 2 wherein said valve rod contains a plurality of diametrical valving apertures, each separated by an O-ring for preventing fluid leakage between adjacent apertures.

4. The valve means claimed in claim 3 wherein said valve rod is manually adjustable through the tubular hole in the fixture.