Internal Thread Patents (Class 251/273)
  • Patent number: 11313485
    Abstract: Provided is an electric valve and a manufacturing method thereof. The electric valve includes a valve body member, a valve seat member, a transmission member, a valve core member and a nut. The valve core member includes an upper tubular body including a first cavity, a valve core body and a connecting member. The valve core body is roughly in a round tubular shape and includes an annular thin wall portion and a second cavity. The connecting member includes a first axial through hole, and the upper end portion of the connecting member includes a lower stop portion. The annular thin wall portion is capable of abutting against a sealing portion of the valve seat member. A lower end portion of the nut is engageable with the lower stop portion to limit downward movement of the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG SANHUA CLIMATE AND APPLIANCE CONTROLS GROUP CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ming Lv, Jiancheng Zhi, Damai Yang
  • Publication number: 20140332089
    Abstract: In an angle valve, an externally threaded sleeve within the yoke surrounds the stem at an upper end of the stem. A yoke bushing fixed to the valve has internal threads matching with the external threading of the sleeve. A split collar assembly is located on the stem above the sleeve. The stem has a greater diameter itself, and/or via a nut, at a lower portion of the stem (below the sleeve) relative to the upper portion of stem. The plug stem is designed to pass through the yoke bushing making it possible to perform the normal open-close operation and grinding operation independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Bray International, Inc.
    Inventors: Varadharajen Lakshmanan, Mathew Varghese, Karthikeyan Rajan, Laural Marshall
  • Patent number: 8800964
    Abstract: A female screw member includes a female screw part with a female screw, and a projection part projecting in the direction of a center shaft of the female screw and having a working face in the rotating direction centering on the center shaft. The female screw part and projection part are integrally molded with a resin. The projection part has a spiral inclination face spirally inclining by one round from the working face centering on the center shaft of the female screw. The height H of the working face is equal to or smaller than a pitch P of the female screw. Using the projection part as a fully opening fixing stopper, a motor operated valve includes a valve main body having a valve seat, the female screw member attached to the valve main body, a motor having a rotator and stator, and a valve shaft. The valve shaft is screwed to a female screw of the female screw member, and is rotated and driven by the rotor, and has a fully opening movable stopper capable of contacting the fully opening fixing stopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Fujikoki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoari Ohuchi, Takeshi Suganuma
  • Patent number: 8800963
    Abstract: A discharge valve assembly includes: a valve casing that has an intake bore, an air chamber communicating with the intake bore, and a discharge aperture communicating with the air chamber; a metal intermediate ring disposed in the air chamber and having a valve hole that communicates with the air chamber, and at least one connecting aperture that communicates with the discharge aperture and the valve hole; a base ring that retains the metal intermediate ring in the air chamber and is mounted on the valve casing; and an adjuster that is disposed in the base ring and movable relative to the base ring to adjust an air flow through the valve hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Ya Horng Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 8690122
    Abstract: A valve device has integrally assembled thereto a valve side housing 2 having a valve seat 1, a motor side housing 4 provided with a motor 3, and a feeder-side housing 5 having a feeder unit, wherein a valve stem 8 provided with a valve 7 for abutting against the valve seat 1 is extended to the interior of the feeder-side housing, a rotation stopper 9 of the valve stem 8 is provided at a predetermined position of the valve stem on its way to the feeder-side housing, a screw section 11 is provided around the portion of the valve stem passing through the center hole 35a of the rotor 35 of the motor 3, the screw section being in mesh with a thread section 10 formed around the surface of the center hole thereof, and a valve position detecting sensor is provided within the feeder-side housing 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomokuni Kato, Masayuki Yokoyama, Youichi Fujita
  • Patent number: 8690121
    Abstract: An assembly for actuating a valve that is in a differential screw assembly when the valve is in a portion of its stroke that experiences high resistance. The actuating assembly is selectively changeable into a direct drive configuration when the valve is in a lower resistance portion of its stroke. A sliding sleeve moves axially within the actuating assembly and has a profile that is strategically dimensioned to change the actuating assembly configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred Olvera, Mahesha Udipi, Raymond Krolczyk
  • Patent number: 8646477
    Abstract: A structure of valve stem and frame lining includes a frame lining, a valve body, and a stem. At least two ribs are formed on one face of the frame lining, and the other opposite face of the frame lining is engaged with a base portion of the valve body by molding. The stem is disposed in an air channel of the valve body to control availability of air through the air channel. More particularly, when being disposed on a wheel frame, the frame lining has a width which enables the frame lining to overlap an outer cover engaged with the wheel frame to provide good sealing performance. Besides, the ribs help the frame lining be positioned on the wheel frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Inventor: Yuan-Hung Wen
  • Publication number: 20130240768
    Abstract: A gate or gate-type valve is used as a flow regulating device specifically for use in saturated gaseous, high particulate, high temperature, and low pressure environments such as in landfill gas wellfields and similar environments where particulate and water gathering can obstruct the operation of a typical gate valve. The valve has a T-shaped body with a fluid flow tube and a transverse plunger tube. A plunger threads into the plunger tube to define a fluid-tight seal between the plunger and the plunger tube and has a distal end that opens and closes the fluid flow tube as the plunger is rotated between open and closed positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: ENERGYNEERING SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Benson, Jason MacKenzie, Brandon Holmen
  • Patent number: 8424842
    Abstract: A rotationally actuated flapper valve including a flapper; a sinuous edge perimetrically about the flapper; and a congruous sinuous edge disposed at another component of the valve, the component being rotatable to misalign the congruous sinuous edge with the sinuous edge of the flapper whereby the flapper is urged out of a closed position and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Terry R. Bussear
  • Patent number: 8297588
    Abstract: To provide a motor-driven valve with a small number of parts, with excellent assemblage, capable of maintaining a large valve port diameter even downsized, and to prevent deterioration of housing environment due to sound caused by the impact and shortened life that are generated by collisions of closing limit stopper parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Fujikoki Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoari Ohuchi
  • Patent number: 8105056
    Abstract: An aerating bag has a body, a connector, a check valve and an intake valve. The body has a connecting tube, a mounting tube and a chamber. The chamber communicates with the connecting tube and the mounting tube. The connector is detachably connected to the body and has a connecting pipe, an inserting pipe, a mounting recess, a release pipe and a cover. The release pipe is formed on and protrudes from the connector and communicates with the connecting pipe and the inserting pipe. The cover is mounted on the release pipe. The check valve mounted in the mounting recess and has an open end, a closed end and a slit. The slit is formed longitudinally in the check valve near the closed end and communicates with a clearance between the connecting pipe and the check valve. The intake valve is detachably mounted in the mounting tube of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Inventor: Shu-Chen Chan
  • Patent number: 7900888
    Abstract: An idle air control valve (11) for a vehicle includes a stator assembly (12) and a rotor assembly (26) operatively associated with the stator assembly and mounted for rotation with respect to the stator assembly. A shaft (36) is restricted from rotation and is associated with the rotor assembly such that rotation of the rotor assembly causes linear movement of the shaft. A pintle (38) is associated with a distal end of the shaft for linear movement therewith. A journal (28) is associated with the rotor assembly and is constructed and arranged to support and permit rotation of the rotor assembly relative to the stator assembly. Lubricant (30) is provided between a surface of the journal and a surface of the rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Canada, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Andrew Weldon, Dian Hong, Jian Tong
  • Publication number: 20100124688
    Abstract: A regulator is provided for supplying fluid, e.g., air, to a fluid consuming battery. The regulator includes a valve housing adapted to be in fluid communication with a fluid consuming electrode of a fluid consuming battery cell. The valve housing has an opening. The regulator also includes a valve member disposed in the opening of the housing and configured to move axial relative to the housing between an open valve position and a closed valve position, wherein fluid is able to pass to the fluid consuming electrode in the open valve position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventors: Michael J. Brandon, II, Chad E Law, Paul D Griffith, JR.
  • Publication number: 20090250647
    Abstract: A simplified piercing valve stem assembly system and apparatus which includes a valve stem component to which a piercing point has been securely affixed, and an easily manufactured stub-out with a flattened or partially flattened end adapted for piercing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventor: Richard Anderson
  • Patent number: 7290753
    Abstract: This invention relates to pressure torque sanitary diaphragm valves and methods of using torque sensitive sanitary valves in the production of chemical and biological therapeutics to obtain procedural reproducibility in the production pharmaceutical compounds and intermediates related thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Inventor: Scott Christopher Meyers
  • Patent number: 7216844
    Abstract: The invention relates to pipeline accessories and can be used for working medium flow control in pipelines in particular the pipelines having a high pressure and flow rate of working fluid. Technical result is achieved due to the fact, that the inventive valve comprises a body provided with inlet and outlet holes, a valve seat, a closure, connected to a drive and seal assemblies, where the body comprises a cylindrical insert and the closure is embodied in the form of a hollow sleeve consisted of two coupled cylindrical parts, the external diameter of the part thereof contacting the body constituting 0.9-1.1 of the internal diameter of the part thereof contacting the insert. Said invention makes it possible to reduce the forces for moving the closure and increase the stable operation of the valve. The inventive valve is characterized with respect to existing valves in that it ensures the stability of operational characteristics at any pressure of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Inventors: Petr Vasilievich Malina, Aleksandr Viktorovich Kurlov
  • Patent number: 7004447
    Abstract: This invention relates to pressure torque sanitary diaphragm valves and methods of using torque sensitive sanitary valves in the production of chemical and biological therapeutics to obtain procedural reproducibility in the production pharmaceutical compounds and intermediates related thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventor: Scott Christopher Meyers
  • Patent number: 6059262
    Abstract: The valve operator of the present invention provides an apparatus and method for reducing torque necessary for opening and closing a valve, such as a quarter-turn rotary valve. In the preferred embodiment, an outer handle adaptor has inner curved tracks that drive balls positioned in straight slots of a middle cylinder. As the balls move in the straight slots, they transfer torque energy to a valve shaft adaptor mounted within the middle cylinder and having outer curved threads that mesh with the balls. The pitch of the curved tracks of the outer handle differ from the pitch the curved tracks of the valve shaft adaptor to thereby effect a desired torque reduction ratio. The valve operator has relatively few components, at least three or more relatively rotatable components, preferably arranged in meshing configuration so as to effect a small size operator without the use of a gear box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Gulf Technologies International, L.C.
    Inventors: David G. Hosie, Michael B. Grayson, David G. Ward
  • Patent number: 5671903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat treatment apparatus, specifically a valve device for use in an exhaust system of a low pressure heat treatment furnace, which comprises urging device for urging a valve body in a valve closing direction, and a drive unit for opening/closing the valve body against an urging force of the urging device. An interconnection releasing mechanism is provided between the driving unit and the valve rod of the valve body, the interconnection releasing mechanism connecting both with each other, and releasing their connection in an emergency. Thus, an exhaust system of the low pressure heat treatment furnace is instantaneously shut off in an emergency to prevent reverse flow of exhaust gas into the furnace. An evacuation fine adjustment gap is defined between the periphery of the valve body and that of the valve casing for facilitating evacuation control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Tohoku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Homma, Hironobu Nishi
  • Patent number: 5598973
    Abstract: An improved flow control mechanism for use in an automatic continuous flow liquid dispensing device for dispensing liquid through a dispensing output onto a receiving surface of an article, is disclosed. The improved flow control mechanism comprises a needle valve on a threaded elongate shaft, which shaft is threadably mounted on the dispensing device housing, for movement of the needle valve between a full flow position where the needle valve is retained in spaced relation with respect to the dispensing output opening so as to permit a full flow of liquid from the main chamber through the dispensing output opening, and a reduced flow position where the needle valve is retained in a reduced spaced relation with respect to the dispensing output opening so as to permit only a reduced flow of liquid from the main chamber through the dispensing output opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1997
    Inventor: Colin K. Weston
  • Patent number: 4989830
    Abstract: A rotatable valve stem in a fluid (e.g. water) hydrant controls the axial position of a plug relative to a valve seat to control fluid-flow through the valve seat. The valve stem is threaded into a bushing of the hydrant so that rotational movement of the stem causes axial movement thereof. According to the invention, rotation of such valve stem is motorized by the coupling of a rotatably-driven drive shaft of an electric motor to the valve stem. The motor and, optionally, a gearing arrangement are enclosed by a protective housing supported by the hydrant. The motor is slidably mounted within the protective housing to accommodate axial movement of the motor caused by the axial movement of the valve stem and its coupled motor drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Ratnik Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: H. Ronald Ratnik
  • Patent number: 4964613
    Abstract: In a gate valve, the valve member is connected to an operating stem which extends upwardly through an opening in the housing for connection to a hand wheel rotatably carried by a yoke through which a portion of the stem extends; rotation of the hand wheel is transferred to linear motion of the valve stem through a split pair of threaded nut members the upper one of which is rotatably engaged with the hand wheel and the lower one of which is rotatably carried in a bore of the support yoke through which a threaded portion of the stem extends; the upper and lower nut members are intergaged to prevent relative rotation therebetween and are of identical configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Mueller Co.
    Inventor: Timothy M. Logman
  • Patent number: 4945941
    Abstract: In a check valve or stop/check valve comprising a housing having an inlet port, an outlet port and a valve seat between the two ports, a valve disc moves axially within a valve housing between open and closed positions, so that fluid flow applies pressure against the valve disc to automatically open the valve, but when the fluid stops or reverses, the valve automatically closes to prevent backwash. Under conditions of pulsating, low-volume fluid flow, a ridge on the valve seat and a deflector ring on the valve disc deflects the flow of fluid, thereby using the velocity of fluid to increase pressure against the valve disc so as to smoothly and gently move the valve disc, reduce vibration of the valve disc and prevent it from striking the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1990
    Assignee: Vilter Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Erich J. Kocher
  • Patent number: 4915348
    Abstract: An exhaust valve (10), particularly for a blood pressure measuring apparatus, comprising a valve seat (31) disposed along the course of an outlet channel in a valve housing (11) and oriented toward the pressure side of the valve. A valve body (25) having the form of a slender conical frustum arranged on the pressure side of the valve seat (31) cooperates with the valve seat. Valve body (25) is urged against the valve seat (31) by a closing spring (27). To facilitate controlled release of an elevated pressure contained by the valve, a screw cap (37) is arranged on the valve housing (11) along the axial projection line of the valve body (25), and the valve body (25) is connected to the screw cap (37) through a support bearing (43). A two-stage steep thread (44,45) is provided between the screw cap (37) and the valve housing (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1990
    Assignee: Speidel & Keller GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Blasius Speidel
  • Patent number: 4909271
    Abstract: In an ultrahigh purity sealed gas valve of the Y-type having a bellows located in a stem bore, a second seat is provided so that the seat seal engages the second seat to seal off the space within the bonnet tube and the bellows from communicating with the gas flow path, thereby preventing contaminating particles from the bellows from entering the gas system and also decreasing the dead space presented to the closed gas system by the valve. A purge port is located between the open and closed positions of the seat seal thereby permitting purging gas to bathe the sealing members and the bellows in both positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Assignee: Cryolab, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Canaan, Joseph H. Nichols, Charles M. Obermeyer, Ronald G. Hendry
  • Patent number: 4744391
    Abstract: A flow control valve operable to bleed pressure from a pressurized source. The flow control valve includes an integral body, a bleed cap, a bleed valve element and a check valve assembly formed of a valve housing and a valve element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignee: Halkey-Roberts Corporation
    Inventor: George E. Lardner
  • Patent number: 4732192
    Abstract: A normal directional flowing type water supply device comprising: a connector in a form of short pipe with threads at both ends, a leading hole and a ball with a diameter slightly larger than that of the leading hole in it, to be connected to a water supply pipe, and stops water outlet by means of the ball which can seal the leading hole by water pressure over it; the normal directional flowing faucet has an inlet path and an outlet path below the inlet path, a push rod in the inlet path for extending to the aforesaid water stopper to push away the ball so that water can flow into the inlet path, and a knob between the inlet and outlet paths to control opening and closing of the leading hole by rising and lowering a valve rod; and the instant opener, which is to be connected to outlet of the faucet, has a ball in it to control opening and closing of its leading hole, and a push rod to push the ball aside in order to open the leading hole for outflowing of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Inventor: Chung-Shan Shen
  • Patent number: 4634093
    Abstract: A manually operated valve is usable as a shut-off and stop/check valve for handling refrigerant fluids in a system subject to reverse fluid flow. The valve comprises a hollow valve body having fluid inlet and outlet ports, a valve plate within the body with a fluid flow passage therethrough, an annular valve seat on the valve plate around the passage, a hollow internally threaded valve stem sleeve attached to the valve body, a rotatable and axially shiftable externally threaded valve stem extending through the valve stem sleeve into the valve body, and a valve disc which is rotatably and axially shiftably mounted on the inner end of the valve stem and releasably engageable with the valve seat to open and close the valve. Rotation and axial shifting of the valve stem effects axial shifting of the valve disc to open and close the valve to enable it to function as a shut-off valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Vilter Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Robert J. Schintgen
  • Patent number: 4556193
    Abstract: A motor-driven expansion valve comprises a valve casing having a first passage, a second passage, and a communication passage having a valve seat and permitting the first passage to communicate with the second passage, a valve member provided within the valve casing and movable toward and away from the valve seat, bellows covering the area between the valve member and the valve casing and urging the valve member away from the valve seat, a drive screw disposed substantially in alignment with the valve member and threaded into the valve casing such that, by its rotational movement, it is moved in the same direction as the valve member to cause the valve member to be moved toward and away from the valve seat, a motor, a drive gear to which a rotational force is transmitted from the output shaft of the motor, and a driven gear which is concentrically mounted on the drive screw to be rotated with the drive screw and which meshes with the drive gear to receive the rotational force from the drive gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Koki Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Yoshiga
  • Patent number: 4488704
    Abstract: A dual valve plug stem actuator device for plug or globe type valves is disclosed wherein said actuator mechanisms provide respectively coarse and fine independent movement of the valve plug stem. One actuating device controls the movement in the axial direction of the valve plug stem relative to and onto a valve seat port by the rotational movement of the threaded valve plug stem through the internal threads of an internally and externally threaded actuator nut. The other of the actuating devices controls the movement of the valve plug stem relative to and onto a valve seat port through the rotation of the internally and externally threaded valve actuator nut where rotation of the actuator nut causes movement in the axial direction of said actuator nut in relation to the stationary valve body and where the axial displacement of the actuator nut causes the same relative axial rotationless displacement of the valve plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1984
    Assignee: AMAX Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon R. Wicker
  • Patent number: 4364543
    Abstract: A valve device comprises a valve body having an inflow passage and an outflow passage, a valve seat fixed to the valve body at a position between the passages, a valve element for seating against and separating from the valve seat, a valve stem movable together with the valve element toward and away from the valve seat, a stem holding member secured at a portion thereof to the valve body in the body interior and holding the valve stem at a screw engagement part therewith where a surface at an extremity of the portion of the stem holding member is in abutting contact with a surface of the main body thereby to form a first metal-contact seal, a bonnet which is detachably fixed to the valve body with a sealing member interposed therebetween, and through which the valve stem is rotatably fitted, where the bonnet covers the remainder portion of the stem holding member, and a mechanism for forming a second metal-contact seal at a stem holding part of the stem holding member when the valve is in the fully opened sta
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1982
    Assignee: Tokico Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Soya, Isao Sato, Seiji Kurose
  • Patent number: 4341370
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Inventor: George W. Banks
  • Patent number: 4176674
    Abstract: A replacement valve stem assembly for a faucet in the form of an internally and externally threaded sleeve extending through and secured by nuts to the faucet cap and a threaded valve stem engaging the internal threads of the sleeve and having a valve washer secured to the inner end thereof and a faucet handle secured to the outer end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1979
    Inventor: Manuel F. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 4166607
    Abstract: An improved bellows valve is disclosed having a relatively long bellows attached at one end to the valve control stem and at its other end to a recessed bellows mounting in the valve bonnet. The recessed attachment permits the use of a relatively long bellows with a valve bonnet of minimal size and mass and permits a wide valve opening with a relatively small valve port. Such a small valve port requires a low closing force for the stem and the use of a wide opening resists clogging. An anti-torque member connected between the valve bonnet and the valve stem prevents stem rotation to isolate the bellows from undesirble rotation during the axial stem and bellows movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1979
    Assignee: Hoke, Inc.
    Inventor: Maurice J. Webb