Telescoping waterway with integrated valve

A telescoping waterway component that is for use in firefighting equipment and has:

• an outer tube that forms part of waterway through which firefighting fluid flows;
• an inlet component that is arranged to enable a flow of fluid into the waterway, is selectively positionable at different inlet angles with respect to the waterway, and has a rotating shutoff element that rotates about an axis with respect to the inlet component between a) an open position and b) a closed position in which the rotating shutoff element blocks the waterway and leaves a hollow cross-section within the inlet component;
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• a telescoping inner tube that forms part of the waterway and moves between a) an extended position downstream of the inlet component and b) a retracted position in which the telescoping inner tube nests within the hollow cross-section left within the inlet component when the rotating shut-off element is in the closed position.

A telescoping waterway component that is for use in firefighting equipment and has:

• an outer tube that forms part of a waterway through which firefighting fluid flows;
• an inlet component that is arranged to enable a flow of fluid into the waterway, is selectively positionable at different inlet heights along the waterway, and has a rotating shutoff element that rotates about an axis with respect to the inlet component between a) an open position and b) a closed position in which the rotating shutoff element blocks the waterway and leaves a hollow cross-section within the inlet component;
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• a telescoping inner tube that nests within the hollow cross-section left within the inlet component when the rotating shut-off element is in the closed position.