Abstract: A valve slide has a housing with a sealing surface which has portions located one behind the other seen in direction of the axis of a slide passage opening. The portions located one behind the other are connected to outwardly extending plane sealing surface portions through continuously extending curved portions. The imaginary generatrices of the sealing surface portions forming a sealing surface extend parallel to the axis of the slide passage openings. The sealing surface is finished. The closing member has a contact surface corresponding to the shape of the sealing member. The slide can be used in vacuum systems. The closing member is formed of one piece and can be subjected to high accelerating forces, so that the slide can be used for quick-closing valves and emergency valves.

Abstract: A shutoff valve includes a pivotably displaceable flap shaped cutoff part mounted in a flow passageway through a housing. The flap shaped cutoff part is relatively thin so that in the fully open position it does not appreciable reduce the flow passageway cross-section. The cutoff part is pivotably supported at one point in the housing wall and at a diagonally opposite it is supported by a combination of a guide pin and a sliding guide. An actuator located outside the flow passageway is connected to the cutoff part for displacing it between the closed and opened positions. The actuator includes a piston cylinder unit connected to a shifter rod. The shifter rod effects the movement of the guide pin in the sliding guide so that the cutoff part is pivoted about an axis extending transversely of the axis of the flow passageway between the closed and opened positions.

Abstract: A sealing device for a high vacuum valve having a movable member which is adapted to be moved to open and close said valve, wherein a first sealing surface is formed on the movable member and a second sealing surface is formed on a housing of the valve with the first and second sealing surfaces being moved relative to each other during movement of the movable member. The first and second sealing surfaces are spaced apart when the valve is in the closed position and a solid sealing member is interposed therebetween, the sealing member being formed with an annular configuration having an inner rounded edge and an outer rounded edge adapted to be engaged between the first and second sealing surfaces. The outer edge of the annular sealing member is formed with a smaller curvature than the inner edge.

Abstract: A vacuum gate valve includes a spreading mechanism with an actuating member extending between first and second valve plates and movable transversely of the axis of the valve, and parallelepiped spreading members disposed between the first valve plate and the actuating member and between the second valve plate and the actuating member. In the open position of the valve, the spreading members include an acute angle with the direction in which the actuating member is moved for closing the valve. When the actuating member is moved in order to spread apart the valve plates and to close the valve, the spreading members pivot about intersecting lines of contact surfaces formed in the valve plates and in the actuating member. In the closed position of the valve, the spreading members extend perpendicularly to the direction of the movement of the actuating member.