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Throttling gasket insert for use with knife gate valve

US4798365A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 20, 1987
Grant dateJan 17, 1989
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Expiry dateMay 20, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/7036
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A throttling gasket insert (34) for attaching a knife gate valve (10) into a pipe string is constructed of a single piece of resilient gasket material having a washer-shaped flange portion (36), to be clamped between a facing surface (52) of a knifegate-valve face plate (26) and a pipe flange (60), and a tubular portion (42), extending through a knife-gate valve flow passage (22) to a knife-gate blade (12) thereof, having a V-shaped passage therethrough.

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