Electronic valves
AssigneeEnglish Electric Valve Company Limited
InventorsDavid Mark Wilcox, Robert Edward Corkhill
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Abstract
An electronic valve includes a shell electrode which is mounted on a support in such a way as to provide a good continuous electrical contact therewith. The base of the shell electrode is flared and mates with a tapered portion of the support, and is held in contact therewith by means of a clamp.
Claims14
An electronic valve including at least one shell electrode wherein the base of said shell electrode is flared outwardly, a support therefor is tapered inwardly to accommodate said flare and a clamping member is provided to urge the flared base of said shell electrode onto the tapered portion of said support.
In an electronic valve, the combination of:
- a support member having a substantially flat annular portion and a frusto conical tapered portion joined with the inner periphery of said annular portion;
- a shell electrode of cylindrical form having an outwardly flared base dimensioned to receive and seat upon said tapered portion of the support member in face-to-face contact therewith;
- a clamping member having a substantially flat annular portion and a frusto conical tapered portion joined with the inner periphery of such annular portion, said tapered portion of the clamping member being dimensioned to seat upon said outwardly flared base of the shell electrode in face-to-face contact therewith and to clamp said base between said frusto conical portions when said annular portion of the clamping member is urged into contact with said annular portion of the support member;
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- means for maintaining said annular portions in contact with each other whereby firmly to grip said base of the shell electrode between said frusto conical portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.