Differential control valve
AssigneeTyco Fire Products LP
InventorsYoram RINGER, James E. Golinveaux
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Abstract
A differential control valve including a housing having an interior surface defining an internal chamber with a central axis. The valve further includes a first port; a second port and a third port, each in communication with the internal chamber. A first valve seat is disposed along the interior surface of the housing circumscribed about the central axis and a second valve seat is circumscribed about the first valve seat. A sealing member defines a sealed position and an open position with respect to the valve seats. A spring member biases the seal member toward the open position and is disposed between the sealing member and the interior of the housing.
Claims24
A differential control valve comprising:
- a housing having an interior surface defining an internal chamber with a central axis;
- a first valve seat disposed along the interior surface of the housing circumscribed about the central axis;
- a second valve seat disposed along the interior surface disposed and circumscribed about the first valve seat;
- a seal member defining a sealed position engaged with the first valve seat and the second valve seat under a sealing pressure of a fluid in the internal chamber, the seal member further defining an open position with the distal surface axially spaced from the first and second valve seats upon release of the sealing pressure of the fluid from the internal chamber, the seal member being substantially aligned with the central axis of the housing in each of the sealed and open positions;
- a first port proximate the first valve seat in communication with the internal chamber, and a second port in communication with the internal chamber, the second port being isolated from the first port when the seal member is in the sealed position and in fluid communication with the first port when the seal member is in the open position;
- at least one spring member disposed in the internal chamber of the housing and engaged with the seal member to bias and support the seal member in the open position upon release of the sealing pressure of the fluid from the internal chamber;
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- a plunger member having a knob to locate the seal member from the open position to a seated position against the first and second valve seats.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.