US 2014/0150906 A1 · FLOW DIVERTER DEVICE

Abstract

A flow diverter device includes a valve body component defining therein two inlet channels and an outlet channel; and a rotatable diverter component comprising an exterior side wall and defining therein a connecting channel in the form of an annular slot positioned around a portion of the exterior side wall. The rotatable diverter component is rotatably received by the valve body component and being movable between a first position where the connecting channel fluidly connects one of the inlet channels with the outlet channel only and a second position where the connecting channel fluidly connects the other of the inlet channels with the outlet channel only.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A flow diverter device comprising:

a valve body component defining therein two inlet channels and an outlet channel;
and
a rotatable diverter component comprising an exterior side wall and defining therein a connecting channel in the form of an annular slot positioned around a portion of the exterior side wall, the rotatable diverter component being rotatably received by the valve body component and being movable between a first position where the connecting channel fluidly connects one of the inlet channels with the outlet channel only and a second position where the connecting channel fluidly connects the other of the inlet channels with the outlet channel only.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/692,105Filed 3 Dec 2012

Published

5 Jun 2014

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

F16K 11/0853
With cylindrical plug: having all the connecting conduits situated in a single plane perpendicular to the axis of the plug
E03B 7/074
Arrangement of devices, e.g. filters, flow controls, measuring devices, siphons or valves, in the pipe systems: arrangement of water treatment devices
E03C 2201/40
Details, devices or methods not otherwise provided for: arrangement of water treatment devices in domestic plumbing installations
Y10T 137/794
Fluid handling: with means for separating solid material from the fluid

Flow diverter device

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Flow diverter device

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Abstract

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