Abstract: A stem tip seal for a shutoff valve includes a valve member having an axial recess at the outer end that operatively receives a retaining sleeve. The retaining sleeve includes a flange portion engaging a shoulder formed by a circumferential groove in the valve member to effectively limit relative movement between these two components. A tapered surface at one end of the retaining sleeve cooperates with a tapered surface formed on the valve member for confining a seal ring. The seal ring is under compression and biases the retaining sleeve toward a first or outer limit position. Initial contact between the retaining sleeve and valve seat prevents nibbling or chipping of the seal ring during valve closure, and extended contact between the retaining sleeve and valve seat provides support during valve opening to prevent seal blow out.

Abstract: A valve construction and method of making the same are provided, the valve construction having an annular valve seat and a movable valve member for opening and closing the valve seat and being operatively interconnected to a thermal power element that is carried by the valve construction. The valve member has an annular rigid part for engaging the valve seat and has an annular flexible part for also engaging the valve seat at a point upstream of the rigid part, the parts of the valve member being so constructed and arranged that the rigid part moves out of engagement with and away from the valve seat a certain distance before the flexible part moves out of engagement with the valve seat. The flexible part of the valve member has an opening therethrough that is adapted to provide a certain sized fluid flow path through the flexible part of the valve member when the rigid part of the valve member is engaging the valve seat.

Abstract: The invention is of a valve member having a replaceable deformable insert installed in a groove of the member and a deformable backup member secured to the valve member, preferably by bonding, and abutting so as to abut at least a major portion of a transverse surface of the insert opposite a tapered seating surface thereof. The insert may be of harder more wear resistant material than the backup member extending service life and permitting easier repair or replacement of the insert.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a double poppet valve comprising two independently movable valve heads cooperating with a valve seat located in a valve housing between an inlet duct and an outlet duct for a liquid product, and enclosing therebetween in the open position as well as in the closed position a leak control space adapted to be sealed in the open position of the valve to reduction of the distance between the two valve heads caused on opening of the valve by one of the valve heads being advanced so as to engage the other valve head at the end of a predetermined stroke, whereafter the two valve heads are forced into mutual sealing engagement by a spring force, the advancing valve head being affixed to a hollow actuating rod adapted to have supplied therethrough a cleaning liquid for said leak control space, a drain pipe communicating with said leak control space being provided for draining said cleaning liquid to the exterior.

Abstract: A fluid pressure energized wear resistant pump valve is provided having a valve body and seal retainer formed of metal which secure a seal insert in assembly therewith. The seal insert incorporates an elastomeric sealing portion having a frusto-conical sealing surface for engagement with a valve seat of corresponding configuration. An anti-extrusion member is secured in assembly with the elastomeric seal portion and is composed of non-metal material of greater hardness than the hardness of the elastomeric material. The anti-extrusion member forms a frusto-conical sealing surface disposed in contiguous relation with the sealing surface of the elastomeric seal member. The anti-extrusion member further defines a tapered, yieldable peripheral sealing lip which yields responsive to pressure conditions to prevent pressure induced extrusion and damage to the elastomeric sealing member.

Abstract: An emergency line disconnector for an LNG loading/unloading line or the like is made capable of accommodating bi-directional fluid flow. Sliders within the fluid passageways are arranged such that a substantially uniform cross-sectional flow path is provided for the fluid. Sealing devices are mounted on the sliders to cut off fluid flow through the device, and such devices are designed so as to be resiliently operable at the extremely low temperatures of LNG. To dissipate the fluid shock due to rapid closure of the device, a fluid shock absorber employing restrictive passageways may be used to slow the advance of the sliders to their cut-off positions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a removable cartridge for a fluid valve which uses a simple O-ring to seal with the housing in which the cartridge is received. The valve comprises a body member having an axial inlet opening at one end and at least one transverse outlet opening. A valve seat is secured in the inlet opening and a valve means is positioned in the body member for axial movement toward and away from the seat. The seat extends beyond the body member and has a circumferentially extending groove to receive an O-ring for providing a seal with a housing in which the cartridge is received.

Abstract: A shut-off valve for high temperature erosive flow is disclosed having a valve and a valve engaging or seating portion in which substantial erosion of an area beginning at its initial erosion point adjacent the valve seat does not erode the valve seating portion of the valve seat and the valve seating portion of the valve member to prevent closing of the valve or to cause leaks. The valve has limited but enough universal movement to be self-seating to accommodate thermal growth. The valve and valve seat can be removed from the valve without taking the valve off the line. A number of embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for producing a reaction mixture from at least two fluid components comprising: (A) a storage container for each component; (B) feed pipes leading from each storage container via metering pumps to injection nozzles; (C) return pipes leading from each injection nozzle to the storage containers; (D) the injection nozzles opening into the mixing chamber of a mixhead, the mixhead having an outlet opening downstream of the injection nozzles, each injection nozzle comprising (i) a housing, (ii) a bore arranged in the housing, the bore connected to a feed pipe and a return pipe, (iii) a nozzle needle within the bore, the nozzle needle being provided with (a) an annular groove for connecting the feed pipe and the return pipe, (b) a sealing surface, and (c) a needle spindle, (iv) a sealing surface in the housing, the sealing surface adapted to contact the sealing surface of the nozzle needle, and (v) a central nozzle bore located in the sealing surface (vi) wherein the

Abstract: A safety valve formed of a body with a fluid inlet and outlet and a passageway there between having a reduced diameter port providing an internal radial ledge, a cylindrical seat member supported on the internal ledge, the seat member having a circumferential groove in the upper face, the groove having an inner frusto-conical surface tapering inwardly in the upper direction so that the width of the groove is wider at the top than at the bottom, a toroidal elastomeric seal received in the seat member groove, the lower portion of the seal being configured to correspond to the groove with an integral upwardly extending reduced internal diameter lip portion, a cylindrical seat retainer member engaging the upper end of the seat member to retain it in position and simultaneously engaging a portion of the upper surface of the seal to retain it in the groove, and a spring biased ball member positioned above the seat member permitting so that fluid flow through the valve body when the fluid pressure exceeds a pre-sele

Abstract: A pressure regulator system for providing controlled reduction of fluid pressure from a relatively high pressure fluid source to a relatively low regulated fluid pressure output. The pressure regulator system includes a pressure reduction regulator designed for stable flow under transonic conditions, and an improved solenoid valve assembly for switching the reduction regulator to an operational condition.

Abstract: A baghouse valve construction including an annular valve seat member and valve member adapted to cooperate with the same in assuming open and closed relative positions. The valve seat having a pair of annular, radially spaced resilient seal members and at least one generally rigid seal member. Retainers secure the resilient seal members in relative spaced position. The valve seat may have two generally rigid seal members. One generally rigid seal member may be adjustable relative to the position of the valve element. In a preferred form, the resilient seal members have a core composed of a first material and a tubular outer member composed of a second material.

Abstract: A poppet or non-return valve, in particular for high speed cycle operation, comprising a valve chamber, a valve seat and a valve member movable in the valve chamber. The valve member has a grooved button which carries an O-ring which forms an elastomeric seal. The groove is so shaped that on closing of the valve the surface of the groove does not interfere with the deformation of the O-ring.

Abstract: A high pressure globe and check valve mechanism according to the present invention incorporates a valve body structure having a globe valve type seat removably positioned therein. A globe type valve element is adapted for seating engagement with respect to the removable seat and is positionable within the valve body by means of a valve actuating stem. A connection element establishes a lost-motion connection between the valve element and valve stem and thus allows relative movement between the valve element and valve stem during check valve type operation. The valve stem is also positionable within the valve body structure so as to maintain the valve element in positive seated engagement with respect to the valve seat.

Abstract: A New Three Stage 15,000 p.s.i. Balanced Valve, controlling fluid flows and pressures equally well in either direction, giving dependable leak proof operation with a very low control force.The first stage acts to gradually cut off the flow as a metering pin enters the orifice, the second stage seat is a standard 45 degree poppet valve closing directly after the metering pin cuts off the flow, the third stage positive shut off is made by teflon under extreme pressure forming a cut off point between the metering pin and the inside walls of the orifice, just below the 45 degree poppet valve.This needed high contact pressure is created by a unique pressure multiplier, a system in which the metering pin causes the self lubricated teflon to be telescoped smoothly without obstruction into a slightly smaller confinement while the valve is being fully closed. A coil compression spring is used to restore the teflon back into the low pressure confinement.

Abstract: A nipple operated animal liquid valve having a valve body defining a passage through which liquid passes to be dispensed by the valve, and a passage closure selectively operable to close the passage, the closure having a nipple which may be operated by an animal to operate the valve.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a dump valve. In the preferred and illustrated embodiment, the dump valve incorporates a valve operator and comprises a valve body having a side located port for admission of high pressure fluid and an axial outlet. The valve operator powers an elongate push rod which passes through an axial passage in the body and supports a hard metal valve element at the tip which is profiled to fit against a valve seat, blocking flow in the axially located passage. Additionally, it incorporates a second seat which is formed of a shaped inner valve of resilient material. This comprises a second valve element. The two valve elements collectively seal the passage. This is particularly helpful in that a hard trimmed, primary shutoff mechanism is first provided incorporating the hard trimmed valve element and seat, and a second soft trimmed valve element and seat cooperates with it. The hard trim valve must seat first before the rubber plug is expanded.

Abstract: A solenoid valve assembly including a movable armature acting through a lost motion unit for moving a valve member to an open position. The lost motion unit stores armature stroke energy during an initial stage of armature stroke, and sums the stored energy with armature stroke energy during a latter stage of armature stroke to open the valve member.

Abstract: A valve arrangement for injecting a gas into a polyvinyl chloride fluid suspension, through an inlet port in the bottom of the suspension tank. The valve includes an overhanging upper disk with a hollow foraminated cylinder, so that the gas exits the cylinder under pressure through the foraminations, thus keeping the operating portion of the valve free of the suspension, with the valve disk overhang providing additional protection against intrusion of suspension material into the clearance space between the valve cylinder and surrounding injection tube. The valve disk overhang terminates in a pointed ridge which engages the top of the injection tube to form a seal.

Abstract: The invention provides a valve having a plunger which is moveable towards and away from an annular seat surrounding an inlet port, the seat has, immediately adjacent and surrounding the port, an upstanding annular rim and, immediately surrounding said rim, a flat annular seating surface. The plunger has a nose constituted in part by a flat annular metal portion adpated to be brought into metal-to-metal contact with the flat annular seating surface on the valve seat. On the nose of the plunger immediately within said flat annular metal portion there is formed a recess in which is housed a sealing ring of elastomeric material. When the flat annular portion of the plunger nose is in metal-to-metal contact with the flat annular seating surface of the valve seat, the raised rim of the valve seat enters or is entered into the mouth of the recess and is pressed into resiliently deforming contact with the part of the elastomeric sealing ring which occupies the recess, thus obtaining sealing obturation of the port.

Abstract: A fuel pressure regulator assembly comprising, a housing, a diaphragm separating the housing into a first and second chamber, the housing has a radial inlet extending to the first chamber and a connector having an axial outlet is mounted in the housing and extends axially into the first chamber. The connector supports a sealing ring in a groove. The diaphragm supports a valve member that is adapted to engage the sealing ring, and a spring in the second chamber urges said valve member against the sealing ring.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a solids handling valve for use in combination with lock hoppers utilized for conveying pulverized coal to a coal gasifier. The valve comprises a fluid-actuated flow control piston disposed within a housing and provided with a tapered primary seal having a recessed seat on the housing and a radially expandable fluid-actuated secondary seal. The valve seals are highly resistive to corrosion, erosion and abrasion by the solids, liquids, and gases associated with the gasification process so as to minimize valve failure.

Abstract: A fuel pressure regulator assembly comprising, a housing, a diaphragm separating the housing into a first and second chamber, the housing has a radial inlet extending to the first chamber and a connector having an axial outlet is mounted in the housing and extends axially into the first chamber. The connector has an annular groove adjacent its inner end that faces radially outwardly and a sealing ring is positioned in the groove. The sealing ring includes an integral retainer portion which engages an annular groove spaced from the end of the connector to retain the sealing ring in the groove. The diaphragm supports a valve member that is adapted to engage the sealing ring, and a spring in the second chamber urges said valve member against the sealing ring.

Abstract: A seat ring assembly in a ball valve or a gate valve provides a primary metal-to-metal seal and a secondary metal-to-synthetic resin seal. The primary seal is accomplished by direct contact between the valve body and the interior conical surface of the seat ring. The secondary seal is made by contact between the valve body and a synthetic resin seat ring insert. The synthetic resin seat ring insert is slidably inserted into an annular groove cut into the conical surface of the seat ring. A compressible seal member is inserted between the bottom surface of the annular groove and the synthetic resin seat ring insert to urge the seat ring insert into contact with the valve body. An additional compressible seal member is inserted into an annular space defined by an inner cylindrical surface of the valve casing and a facing cylindrical surface of the seat ring.

Abstract: The valve closure element has an annular peripheral groove opening outwardly onto the periphery of the closure element. An annular sealing element has an annular heel portion disposed in the groove. The latter has an inner end face whose diameter is less than the inside diameter of the heel portion. The groove is defined laterally by two confronting annular faces of the closure element which have a substantially rectilinear generatrix and grip the heel portion so as to prevent relative movement of the heel portion and closure element.

Abstract: A needle valve having a stem movably carried in a body defining a flow chamber with the tip of the stem being provided with a soft movable valve portion adapted to have seating engagement with an annular valve seat of a body port. The soft movable valve element may be defined by a tubular sleeve formed of a cold flowable material. A tubular retainer is slidably carried about the sleeve to prevent undesirable radial expansion of the sleeve as a result of cold flow and to direct the cold flowed material of the sleeve inwardly about a retainer portion of the stem disposed within the body port when the sleeve is in seating engagement with the body seat. The retainer is arranged to limit the adjustment of the stem to a maximum inward position wherein a major portion of the sleeve is cold flowed into the body port.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in a reciprocating pump wherein a one-way check valve opens to admit fluid from a reservoir during the pump upstroke and a second one-way check valve opens to expel fluid from the pump during the downstroke. The apparatus includes a valve seat having a frusto-conical shape and formed from resilient material, and a spherical metallic ball, together with a rigid seat edge liner for restricting the seat resilient expansion. In operation, the invention enables the check valve in the check position to automatically compensate for excessive forces against the ball by distributing these forces over a variable spherical ball/seat surface to provide a predetermined maximum pressure on the valve seat.

Abstract: An improved valve for high speed, high pressure pumps, having a dished, rectangular-sectioned, radially stretched seal overhanging the valve body to both cushion and seal the body's closure against the valve seat, and which is pre-stressed in tension sufficiently to stiffen against pinch off under the high fluid pressures of, and to attain full elastic shape recovery in the very brief time interval between the valve closings of, such pumps.

Abstract: A pressure regulator with a spring loaded diaphragm having spring pressure and atmospheric pressure on one side and line pressure on the other for moving a valve stem in a valve seat for controlling downstream pressure. A soft seat design utilizing a metal seat in the regulator body and a resilient valve insert carried on the valve stem for engaging the seat. An annular flexible insert carried in an annular groove in the valve stem.

Abstract: This invention relates to controlled inlet valves for metering pumps. The metering pumps for which the valve of the invention is applicable are of the kind comprising a cylinder in which moves a piston to which a reciprocating movement is imparted. In the valve of the invention a member is mounted to slide in the pump cylinder and one of the ends of this member has an obturator which co-operates with a sealing gland arranged at the inlet opening to the cylinder. The sliding member is selectively coupled at its other end to the piston and is subject to the urging of an elastic member which is capable of thrusting the obturator back to the closed position.

Abstract: A control system for supplying uncured propellant into the combustion char of a missile. The system includes a moving injector cooperating with a pressurized putty-like uncured propellant. This combination provides the missile with a propulsion system having rapid wide range throttling, shut off and restart capabilities.

Abstract: The valve for use in thermal shock deburring apparatus, in which oxygen and hydrogen are combined under explosive conditions, and which provides reliable shut-off of the respective gas component being supplied to an explosion jet chamber, and which prevents backfire or backflash, is enclosed in a housing formed with a bore, preferably cylindrical, in which an insert sleeve is located; a resiliently deformable sealing material such as, for example, Teflon, is located between a portion of the bore and the sleeve.

Abstract: This invention relates to the art of pressure vessels and more particularly to a valve assembly for use in a pressure vessel of the type having a rigid container with a deformable bladder therein, dividing the container into two variable volume chambers, one adapted to receive gas under pressure and the other to receive liquid under pressure.The valve assembly which is screwed into a port in communication with the gas chamber includes a slidably mounted stem having a resilient valve member at one end normally urged to seat on the beveled inner end of an axial bore in the valve assembly in a first seating position of the valve member, and urged further into said beveled inner end when the bladder is charged with gas under pressure in a second seating position of the valve member. The inward movement of the valve member is limited by a stop carried by the stem. When the liquid chamber is charged, if the bladder should abut against the resilient valve member, no extrusion of the bladder would occur.

Abstract: A portable mixing-dispensing device having a manual flow control valve means between a ventable flow control chamber and a solution-proportioning chamber, and a manual feed valve between the proportioning device and a source of concentrate supplied at a negative gauge pressure, same including means to selectively coordinate the operation of the valves. The feed valve serves also as an anti-backflow check valve for the concentrate supplied under a negative gauge pressure as well as maintaining the prime thereof without dilution when concentrate is not being supplied to the mixing chamber. A translucent concentrate supply tube readily visible from above the mixing chamber serves as a visual check as to the prime of the concentrate.

Abstract: Pilot valve, of the quick opening and quick closing type, actuated to open or close by a hydraulic fluid acting on a piston.

Abstract: A tight shutoff valve seal is disclosed, wherein an easily deformable annular valve seal member is retained within an annular groove in a valve element. Protecting this seal member from erosion or damage by a fluid flowing therepast is a slidable seal retaining member which additionally retains the seal member within the groove. The retaining member is resiliently urged to a seal-protecting position when a valve employing this seal is opened, and when the valve is closed the retaining member slides on a surface of the seal member and on a surface of the valve element to allow the seal member to abut and seal against a valve seating surface.

Abstract: A throttling valve which includes a stem having a shoulder thereon. The lower end of the valve stem extends into a valve seat. The stem includes a shoulder which forces the seat downwardly. The seat mechanism incorporates a seal which encircles the stem. The shoulder on the stem engages a wedge-shaped member driven into a softer member, causing radial expansion to tighten snugly about the stem. A fixed seat member is also incorporated. This enables throttling without erosion of the components when the flow is cut to a trickle, particularly in high pressure circumstances.