Abstract: Stacked valve bodies have adjacent sides pressed against one another and fluid bores extend through adjacent sides to place the bodies in fluid communication with one another. Resilient seals are around the bores and between adjacent sides so as to form fluid seals between adjacent sides. The bodies also each have opposite outer sides with partial grooves formed in the outer sides of the adjacent bodies. The partial grooves form a complete groove and central post in opposite sides of the adjacent bodies. A ring-like connecting member corresponds in shape to the complete groove and is adapted to be pressed in the complete groove and snugly around the post when the adjacent bodies are pressed together against the resiliency of the seals.

Abstract: A metering device for the precision feeding of a liquid, such as, for example, an oil lubricant. The device has a fluid supply chamber with a working medium such as oil and which in turn is in open communication with a metering chamber also containing the medium fluid. A fluid pumping piston passes through the supply chamber and then into the metering chamber. Upon entering the metering chamber, the pumping piston passes through an annular flexible seal of generally U-shaped cross section that has a pair of axially extending lips which act, respectively, along the piston and the metering chamber to thereby form a one-way valve therebetween. The piston forces the fluid out of the metering chamber and the volume displaced by the piston can be adjusted by adjusting the axial position of the metering chamber and thereby vary the extent to which the pumping piston enters the metering chamber.