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US 4,050,669 AGranted
Expansible tube valves
AssigneeGrove Valve and Regulator Company
InventorRichard S. Brumm
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Abstract
A valve wherein an expansible tube is stretched around a hollow core, which has a central barrier between inlet and outlet slots around the core. An annular groove is formed around the outer sealing surface of the barrier and extensions of some of the downstream slots open into the groove to vent the groove and produce a pressure drop across the expansible tube to enhance sealing and to provide an initial flow path when the tube is forced away from the sealing surface.
Claims2
In an expansible tube valve comprising:
- a housing with inlet and outlet flow passageways therein:
- a core of circular cross-section in said housing with opposite open ends thereof aligned with said flow passageways;
- said core having two axially spaced series of inlet and outlet slots therearound;
- a barrier across said core intermediate said inlet and outlet slots having a sealing surface therearound;
- an expansible tube on said core having an intermediate sealing portion normally snugly embracing said sealing surface;
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- a port in said housing for admitting pressure fluid therein against said expansible tube to construct it around said sealing surface;
- the improvement comprising:
- an annular groove with relatively sharp outer side edges extending completely around said sealing surface:
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- venting slots in and around said barrier, from within said annular groove to the downstream side of said barrier communicating with outlet slots;
- said slots tapering from said groove to a greater depth at the downstream surface of said barrier to provide gradually increasing flow passages as said expansible tube expands away from said sealing surface progressively from the upstream thereof.
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