Slide valve

• US 5,577,707 A
• Filed: 12/18/1995
• Issued: 11/26/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: VAT Holding AG (VAT Group AG)
• Original Assignee: VAT Holding AG (VAT Group AG)
• Inventors: Brida, Hubert
• Primary Examiner(s): Fox, John C.
• Application Number:
  US08/573,833
• Time in Patent Office: 344 Days
• Field of Search: 251/159, 251/188, 251/193
• US Class Current: 251/159
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 3/20 by movement of the seats

Abstract

A slide valve including a housing having a flow channel, a slide plate for controlling flow through the channel, and a seal ring surrounding the flow channel and engaging the slide plate in its closed position and disengageable from the slide plate in its open position, with the seal ring having on its side remote for the slide plate, a plurality of circumferentially arranged recesses spaced from each other, extending in a circumferential direction, outwardly limited by key hole-shaped openings respectively, and aligned, respectively, with the bores formed in the adjacent to the seal ring, annular surface of the housing and in which a plurality of bolts are respectively displaceable, which bolts have shaped heads extending into the recesses and engageable from behind by key hold-shaped openings.

Claims

1. A slide valve, comprising:

a housing having a flow channel;

a slide plate located in the housing and displaceable transversely to a flow channel axis between a closed position, in which it blocks flow through the flow channel, and an open position, in which it provides for the flow through the flow channel; and

a seal ring surrounding the flow channel and engaging the slide plate in the closed position thereof and disengageable from the slide plate in the open position thereof;

wherein the housing has an annular surface surrounding the flow channel and located adjacent to the seal ring, the annular surface having a plurality of bores having axes extending parallel to the flow channel axis,

wherein the seal ring has, on a side thereof remote from the slide plate, a plurality of circumferentially arranged recesses spaced from each other and extending in a circumferential direction, the recesses being outwardly limited by key hole-shaped openings, respectively, and being aligned, respectively, with the bores formed in the adjacent annular surface of the housing, and

wherein the slide valve further comprises a plurality of bolts displaceably arranged in the plurality of bores and having shaped heads extending into the plurality of recesses, respectively, and engageable from behind by respective key hole-shaped openings.

3. A slide valve as set forth in claim 1, wherein the housing has an annular chamber which surrounds the flow passage and into which the bores formed in the annular surface open, and wherein the slide valve further comprises an annular piston located in the annular chamber and operatively connected with the bolts, and at least one inlet conduit opening into the annular chamber for conducting fluid thereinto.

4. A slide valve as set forth in claim 3, wherein the slide valve comprises a plurality of springs acting on an end surface of the annular piston remote from the bolts.

5. A slide valve as set forth in claim 4, wherein a number of springs correspond to the number of bolts.

6. A slide valve as set forth in claim 5, wherein the springs are aligned with the bolts.

7. A slide valve as set forth in claim 1, wherein the seal ring has a nipple extending into the flow channel, a first annular groove provided in an end surface of the seal ring located adjacent to the slide plate, and a second annular groove provided in an outer surface of the nipple, and wherein the slide valve further comprises two o-rings located, respectively, in the first and second grooves, the o-ring located in the second groove engaging a flow channel wall.

8. A slide valve as set forth in claims 7, wherein both rings have substantially same diameter.

9. A slide valve as set forth in claim 1, wherein the seal ring has a sidewise extending handle lying in a plane of the seal ring.

10. A slide valve as set forth in claim 9, wherein the housing is formed of two parts separated by a separation plane, and wherein the handle extends beyond the separation plane.

11. A slide valve as set forth in claim 10, wherein the slide valve is formed as a pendulum slide valve, wherein the flow channel is formed in one of the two parts, and wherein the slide valve further comprises a servomotor for pivoting the slide plate between the closing and open positions, the servo-motor being and flange-mounted on the one of the two parts.

2. A slide valve asset forth in claim It wherein the shaped heads of the bolts have one of a bracket shape and a mushroom shape.