Patents Assigned to GLOBAL FIRE SPRINKLER CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 9795815
    Abstract: A control valve assembly includes a valve body having inlet and outlet ends, and an endless valve seat therebetween. A clapper disk is pivotably mounted within the valve body, and is pivotable between a sealingly closed position and an open position according to a pressure differential across the clapper disk. A U-shaped arm is rotatably supported in the valve body, and rotatable between a first position, wherein a bight of the U-shaped arm is positioned out of an operational range of movement of the clapper disk such that the clapper disk is freely movable between the open and closed positions thereof, and a second position, wherein the bight of the U-shaped arm engages and maintains the clapper disk in the sealingly closed position thereof. A selectively rotatable control arm operatively coupled with the U-shaped arm and utilized to move the U-shaped arm between the first and second positions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBAL FIRE SPRINKLER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoram Ringer, Stephen J. Meyer, Thomas Edwin Archibald
  • Patent number: 9772047
    Abstract: A cross-wall indicator post is provided to control through a wall, open and closed configurations of a piping system control valve having a manual actuator with a valve-hand wheel. The indicator post includes a post body having a mounting flange to mount the post body to a wall separating the post body from the control valve. An operating stem extends through the post body and is adjustably, slidably, non-rotatably, telescopingly engaged with an extension rod. A post-hand wheel is engaged with the operating stem for rotation thereof. An engagement member is fixedly attached to the extension rod, configured to be selectively, mechanically engageable with, and releasable from, the valve-hand wheel to actuate the control valve between the open and closed configurations thereof. Rotation of the post-hand wheel rotates the operating stem, the extension rod, and the engagement member, to, in turn, rotate the valve-hand wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBAL FIRE SPRINKLER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen J. Meyer, Yoram Ringer