F16K 17/366
The closure member being a movable ball
Official title: {the closure member being a movable ball (F16K17/38 takes precedence)}
F16K17/366 (The closure member being a movable ball) appears on 107 US grants and 52 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 107
- Published applications
- 52
- Assignees
- 58
- Inventors
- 170
- Latest grant
- 4 Nov 2025
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| 2020 | 3 | 5 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 |
| 2022 | 4 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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