Valve for flowing liquid-phase medium

• US 5,390,703 A
• Filed: 09/24/1993
• Issued: 02/21/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Paul Tengesdal
• Original Assignee: Covent AS
• Inventors: Tengesdal, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Nilson, Robert G.
• Application Number:
  US08/122,419
• Time in Patent Office: 515 Days
• Field of Search: 137/629, 137/630.14, 137/630.15
• US Class Current: 137/629
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/44 Details of seats or valve members of double-seat valves
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/54 Arrangements for modifying the way in which the rate of flow varies during the actuation of the valve
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 39/024 using an auxiliary valve on the main valve
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86936 Pressure equalizing or auxiliary shunt flow

Abstract

A valve for a pipe system wherein liquid circulates is intended to be controlled dependent on the liquid temperature within the system by means of a thermostat adapted to actuate an electro magnet which, on its part, dependent on whether it is current-carrying or not, is adapted to retain the valve spindle in a position corresponding to open or closed valve position, respectively. The valve housing has plate-shaped seat body having a large central through-going flow opening and a number of smaller corresponding openings closer to the circumference. A spring-loaded first valve body is displaceably arranged on the spindle and cooperates with the central opening of the seat body in order to close/open the opening, a concentrical, spring-loaded hollow piece constituting a second valve body which also is displaceably arranged on the spindle cooperating with the peripheric openings via an annular flange portion in order to close/open the last-mentioned openings. The two valve bodies are axially displaceable in relation to each other, and they are each assigned a carrier on the spindle.

Claims

1. A valve for a flowing liquid-phase medium, said valve comprising a valve housing having an inlet and an outlet as well as a seat body having at least one flow opening for liquid defined within a central area thereof, a first spring-loaded valve body disposed on an axially displaceable valve spindle being adapted to cooperate with said at least one flow opening, in order to close or open, respectively, the latter, dependent on the axial displacement position of said valve spindle, said seat body, radially outwardly of said central area wherein said at least one flow opening is located, is formed with at least one further flow opening for liquid, and that said at least one further flow opening is adapted to be closed and opened, respectively, by means of a second valve body disposed on said spindle, said second valve body being spring-loaded and being constituted through a substantially hollow body surrounding said first valve body, said first and second valve bodies being relatively displaceably disposed on said spindle, said spindle being provided with carrier means for said first and second valve bodies, respectively, said first valve body being formed with a cavity in liquid-communication with the interior of said valve housing through at least one throttle opening, said spindle penetrating with a free end portion into said cavity, said spindle'"'"'s penetration depth into said cavity varying in size as the valve changes from open to closed position, and vice versa, said penetration depth increasing whenever said spindle is being displaced corresponding to said valve'"'"'s positional change from an open position toward a closed position, said spindle during the displacement thereof in the last-mentioned direction displacing liquid from said cavity out through said throttle opening, simultaneously effecting a damping braking of said spindle during a completion phase of the displacement thereof toward a completely closed valve position.

2. A valve as set forth in claim 1, wherein said second valve body substantially has the shape of a cup, concentrically surrounding said first valve body, and comprising a central bearing sleeve portion, with which the former may slide along said spindle, as well as a flange-annular closure portion, with which said second valve body may rest sealingly against said seat body, closing said at least one further flow opening in one axial displacement position along said spindle, a wall of a hollow piece forming said second valve body being perforated, in order to establish and maintain equal pressure internally and externally of said second valve body.

3. A valve as set forth in claim 2, wherein said first valve body is assigned a pressure spring adapted to urge said first valve body toward a closing position, said pressure spring resting supportingly against a shoulder of said first valve body and, at the other end thereof, against a radially directed internal portion of said second valve body, oppositely located in relation to the second valve body'"'"'s closing end.

4. A valve as set forth in claim 3, wherein said second valve body is assigned a relatively weak pressure spring adapted to urge said second valve body toward closing position, said relatively weak pressure spring, at one end thereof, resting supportingly against a shoulder disposed at the closure end of said second valve body and, at the other end thereof, against an internal face of a radially directed wall of said valve housing.

5. A valve as set forth in claim 4, wherein said carrier means on said spindle is comprised of fixed rings, one of said rings located at each side of said first valve body'"'"'s bearing portion on said spindle, said fixed rings having a mutual spacing exceeding the axial longitudinal extent of said bearing portion.

6. A valve as set forth in claim 5, wherein one of said fixed rings which is intended to cooperate with said first valve body during the displacement of the latter from closed toward open position, is attached to said spindle at the end thereof and disposed within said cavity.