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US 11,892,089 B2Granted
Gas valve assemblies
AssigneeHubbell Incorporated
InventorGregory Harlan Goble
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides gas valve assemblies that include a replaceable excess flow valve within a movable flow control body that is removably secured within a valve seat housing. The gas valve assemblies permit the replacement of an excess flow valve without interrupting the supply of gas to a structure and without replacing gas piping.
Claims20
A gas valve assembly comprising:
- a valve seat housing including:
- a first gas port extending through the valve seat housing;
- a second gas port extending through the valve seat housing;
- a flow valve body within the valve seat housing, the flow valve body having a main flow bore extending therethrough and a bypass bore extending therethrough, wherein the main flow bore is angularly displaced from the bypass flow bore;
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- valve holding assembly having a lid and a valve holding body, the lid being releasably secured to the flow valve body, and the valve holding body extends into a valve receptacle within the flow valve body, the valve holding body having an excess flow valve removably positioned within a valve bore within the valve holding body.
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A gas valve assembly comprising:
- a valve seat housing including:
- a first gas port extending through the valve seat housing;
- and
- a second gas port extending through the valve seat housing;
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- a flow valve body within the valve seat housing, the flow valve body having a main flow bore extending therethrough, a bypass bore extending therethrough and a removable excess flow valve positioned within main flow bore, wherein the main flow bore is angularly displaced from the bypass flow bore.
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A gas valve assembly comprising:
- a valve seat housing including:
- a first gas port extending through the valve seat housing;
- a second gas port extending through the valve seat housing;
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- a flow valve body within the valve seat housing, the flow valve body having a main flow bore extending therethrough, a bypass bore extending therethrough and a removable excess flow valve positioned within main flow bore, wherein the main flow bore is angularly displaced from the bypass flow bore.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.