Check Valve With Override
AssigneeUnibloc Hygienic Technologies UK, Ltd.
InventorsRobert George Grantham-Hill, Sebastian Antoni Soyke
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AssigneeUnibloc Hygienic Technologies UK, Ltd.
InventorsRobert George Grantham-Hill, Sebastian Antoni Soyke
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A check valve is provided with an over-ride configuration whereby a poppet located above a valve seat seals against the valve seat in a check valve configuration under the influence of at least one of gravity and fluid pressure from above the valve seat. A flow configuration occurs when pressure above the valve seat is lower than below the valve seat thereby at least assisting in pulling the poppet off the valve seat and permitting flow. An over-ride configuration exists due to foot downwardly extending from poppet through valve seat to below a lower section of the valve housing to contact a surface to thereby push the foot upwardly (and the poppet off the valve seat) so that flow could proceed in a direction normally prevented by the check valve configuration.
A check valve with over-ride comprising:
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