Rotary doser valve

US6550496B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Jerome J. Tiemann · Schenectady, US
• Andrew Philip Shapiro · Schenectady, US
• Walter Whipple, III · Amsterdam, US
• Richard DeVos · Goshen, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 2001
• Grant date: Apr 22, 2003
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/86863
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A rotary doser valve includes a stator with a plurality of ports therein which cooperates with a rotor having a plurality of channels therein. The rotor is rotatable against the stator in first and second positions which alternately channel water to and from a doser for refilling an icemaker in a preferred use.