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US 2017/0356564 A1Published application
Valve Assembly
AssigneeInsight Technical Services, Inc.
InventorsClark Meyer, Vern Mauzy
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Abstract
A valve assembly including a valve having an opening and closing mechanism for controlling the flow of a fluid through the valve controlled by an actuator and an actuator mounting bracket secured to the valve. The actuator mounting bracket includes upper and lower clamps securing the valve actuator to the valve regardless of the valve position.
Claims11
A valve assembly comprising:
- a valve having a body;
- an opening and closing mechanism positioned in the valve body, the mechanism being adapted to selectively control flow of a fluid through the valve;
- a valve stem secured to the opening and closing mechanism;
- a valve actuator mounting bracket operatively connected to the valve, the mounting bracket including an upper clamp and first and second lower clamps, each of the first and second lower clamps being adapted to be releaseably secured to the upper clamp;
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- an actuator drive adaptor secured to the upper clamp, the drive adaptor including an actuator coupler located intermediate a valve actuator and the opening and closing mechanism, the coupler being adapted to operatively interconnect the valve actuator to the opening and closing mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.