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US 2023/0204113 A1Published application
A valve
AssigneeReliance Worldwide Corporation (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.
InventorsGary HAY, Blake Anton PHILLIPS
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Abstract
A valve including a valve body; an adjusting assembly having an actuating portion and a regulating part; a flood prevention device at least partly located in the valve body, with the flood prevention device having a regulating portion; and a relief aperture defined through a wall of the regulating part to assist in reducing pressure on the regulating portion when the regulating portion moves to a closed position.
Claims20
A valve, comprising:
- a valve body;
- an adjusting assembly having an actuating portion and a regulating part;
- a flood prevention device at least partly located in the valve body, the flood prevention device having a regulating portion;
- and
- a relief aperture defined through a wall of the regulating part to assist in reducing pressure on the regulating portion when the regulating portion has moved to a closed position.
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A methodfor operating a flood prevention device in a valve, the method comprising:
- allowing a regulating portion of the flood prevention device to move from an open position to a closed position in response to a predetermined fluid rate;
- moving the regulating portion from a first position to a second position within a valve body, with the assistance of an actuating portion, to reduce a pressure on the regulating portion;
- and
- allowing the regulating portion to return from the closed position to the open position as fluid drains from a relief aperture.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.