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Control valve with axial sealing

US6203601A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 27, 1999
Grant dateMar 20, 2001
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Expiry dateAug 27, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T137/86686
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A two-way control valve arrangement for selectively opening a first passageway to either one of a second passageway and a third passageway, wherein a housing structure is provided having a valve body opening with circular sidewall and a base portion intersecting the first, second and third passageways; a valve body secured within the valve body opening, and a piston with a plunger at the end thereof reciprocally disposed within a piston cylinder extending axially through the valve body, the piston being reciprocal to either bias against the valve body to close the piston cylinder therethrough and accordingly the second passageway, or to bias against the base portion of the valve body opening to close the third passageway.

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