Abstract: A hydraulic diaphragm valve comprising a housing, an inlet, an outlet, a diaphragm valve seating between the inlet and the outlet, a sealing diaphragm mounted in the housing and displaceable about the diaphragm valve seating, so as to close and open a flow path between the inlet and outlet, a valve control chamber and a command valve comprising a first duct communicating a one end thereof with the valve inlet, and at an opposite end thereof with a first command valve seating, a second duct communicating into one end with the valve outlet, and at an opposite end thereof, with a second command valve seating. A third duct communicates at one end with the valve control chamber and at its opposite end it selectively communicates with the first and second command valve seatings.

Abstract: A hydraulic diaphragm valve comprising a housing, an inlet, an outlet, a diaphragm valve seating between the inlet and the outlet, a sealing diaphragm mounted in the housing and displaceable about the diaphragm valve seating, so as to close and open a flow path between the inlet and outlet, a valve control chamber and a command valve comprising a first duct communicating at one end thereof with the valve inlet, and at an opposite end thereof with a first command valve seating, a second duct communicating into one end with the valve outlet, and at an opposite end thereof, with a second command valve seating. A third duct communicates at one end with the valve control chamber and at its opposite end it selectively communicates with the first and second command valve seatings.

Abstract: An over filling interdiction valve, fitted within a fluid tank, the valve comprising a housing furnished with a first fluid inlet at a bottom end thereof and a first fluid outlet at top end thereof, a float member located within the housing and being displaceable along its longitudinal axis between the first inlet and the first outlet. The float member comprises at its bottom end a second fluid inlet and near its top end a second fluid outlet. Sealing means are associated at a top end of the float member for sealing the first fluid outlet and biasing means are provided within the housing for biasing the float member towards the first fluid outlet.

Abstract: A roll over vent valve comprising:a housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, the latter comprising a substantially elongated slit-like outlet aperture of the housing bounded by a valve seating. There is furthermore provided a float member located in the housing and axially displaceable within the housing between the inlet and the outlet; an elongated flexible closure membrane strip anchored at one end thereof to an end of the float member adjacent the outlet and at a portion thereof offset with respect to the outlet; spring biassing means located within the housing and bearing on the float member so as to spring bias it in the direction of the outlet; whereby the spring biassing together with buoyancy forces acting on the float member tend to press the membrane strip into sealing engagement with the outlet aperture whilst gravity forces acting on the float member tend to displace the float member away from the outlet so as to progressively detach the strip from sealing engagement with the outlet.

Abstract: A rotary sprinkler having a base member for coupling to an irrigation supply and formed with one or more base member outlets, there being furthermore provided a rotary distributor member of substantially cuspidal shape rotatably mounted with respect to said base member with an apical end thereof adjacent the base member and an opposite broad end thereof remote from the base member, a plurality of distributor passages are formed in a curved surface of the distributor member, each passage extending from a passage inlet located in said apical end adjacent to a base member outlet to a passage outlet located in said broad end, a rotary turbine member is rotatably mounted with respect to the distribution member and provided with a plurality of turbine blades disposed adjacent the passage outlets so that irrigation streams emerging from the passage outlets strike said blades and rotatably displace the turbine member, ball drive means being located between the turbine and distributor members for transmitting the rota

Abstract: A compact electronic weighing scale whose major dimension is not substantially greater than the width of an average adult shoe and comprises a capacitive load cell adapted to be acted upon by an annular load transmission element coupled to the weighing platform. The capacitive load cell and the load transmission element are so dimensioned that the change in capacitance of the load cell in response to a load acting upon the weighing platform is substantially uniform regardless of the point of application of the load on the weighing platform.

Abstract: There is disclosed a tub diaphragm valve for controlling hydraulic flow therethrough. The valve includes a diaphragm composed of innermost and outermost layers formed of elastic resiliently distortable fluid tight material and an intermediate layer of mesh material of relatively limited stretchability being unbonded to the innermost and outermost layers.

Abstract: In a rotary irrigation mini-sprinkler of the kind comprising a housing having a housing inlet and a housing outlet and, intermediate thereof, a differential pressure control means responsive to variations in the pressure differential between the inlet and outlet and including a throughflow path serving to communicate with said housing inlet and outlet, the throughflow dimensions of the path varying in accordance with the differential, the improvement wherein the housing outlet includes an outflow port in direct communication with the path and having a non-circular cross-sectional shape such as to reduce substantially the velocity of water entering the port from the path and thereby ensuring that the water fully occupies the port.

Abstract: A fluid flow valve such as a faucet or air-purge valve comprising a housing having defined therein a fluid through-flow aperture with a valve seating formed in the housing and bounding said aperture. A flexible closure membrane is secured at one end to the housing and is adapted to be biased, under fluid pressure in the housing, against the valve seating so as to seal the aperture. Membrane displacing means are secured to an opposite end of the membrane so that displacement of the displacing means in a first sense progessively detaches successive transverse portions of the membrane from the seating so as to open the aperture while displacement of the displacing means in an opposite sense allows for the membrane to become sealingly biased against the seating.

Abstract: A tube valve having a tube that closes the valve by being moved to a position juxtaposed to an impervious support structure having a traversing impervious barrier and that opens the valve by being moved away from the support structure wherein the "water hammer" effect is minimized by tube movement resistance generated by the barrier configuration.