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US 2015/0240954 A1Published application
Valve with adaptive facial sealing ring
AssigneeCameron International Corporation
InventorsChristophe Avdjian, Jacques Berardo
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Abstract
A valve including a flow control assembly having an adaptive, floating closure member is provided. In one embodiment, a ball valve includes a floating closure member having a shoulder enclosed within a recess of the valve body. The recess is larger than the shoulder of the closure member and allows axial movement of the closure member with respect to the valve body and along a flow path through the valve. Additional valve systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
Claims15
A valve comprising:
- a body;
- a flow control assembly inside the body, the flow control assembly including a ball and a closure member having a shoulder enclosed within a recess of the body, wherein the closure member is a floating closure member in that the recess in the body is larger than the shoulder of the closure member to allow movement of the closure member with respect to the body and along a flow path through the valve.
A method comprising:
- receiving fluid in a valve disposed between first and second sections of a fluid conduit, the valve including a closure member disposed in a valve body and configured to seal against the first section of the fluid conduit;
- and
- maintaining sealing of the closure member with the first section of the fluid conduit by enabling the closure member to move with respect to the valve body in response to movement of the first section of the fluid conduit with respect to the valve body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.