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Device and method for connecting in a switchable manner

US10780470B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignees

Michael Saier · DE
Beatrice Saier · DE

Inventors

Michael SAIER · Fischbach, DE
Lothar Weber · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 20, 2012
Grant date	Sep 22, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 7, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T137/86501
WIPO fieldMechanical elements
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus has a plurality of inlet ports each connectable to a material supply container and an outlet port. A disk-shaped valve body has a first side and an opposite second side with a straight throughgoing passage from the first side to the second side, the body being displaceable relative to the inlet ports to provide a switchable connection between a respective one of the plurality of inlet ports and the outlet port. The passage can be also be connected with a respective one of the various inlet ports to enable feeding of different materials successively to the outlet port. One of the inlet ports is a flushing medium inlet port of a flushing device, and the passage can connected with the flushing medium inlet port by displacement of the valve body for flushing the passage.

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