Abstract: A flow control valve favorably employable for sprinkler is composed of a cylindrical housing and control means comprising an upper spring, a floating cover disc, a lower spring, a floating hollow cylinder valve, and a valve seat arranged within the cylindrical housing, in which the cover disc is composed of a disc body and plural legs attached to a side face of the disc body and extending downwardly; the cylindrical housing is composed of a bottom fluid inlet, a top fluid outlet and a fluid passage and has plural guides for vertical movement of the legs of the cover disc on its inner surface; the cylinder valve is detachably placed on the valve seat and has an upper opening, a bottom cap, a flange formed in a lower portion of the valve and a side opening formed in a portion lower than the flange; the upper spring is in contact with the top outlet of the housing at its upper end and with an upper surface of the disc body of the cover disc at its lower end; the lower spring is arranged around the cylinder valve