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US 4,726,393 AGranted
Power valve assembly
AssigneeMosier Industries, Inc.
InventorRay H. Herner
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AssigneeMosier Industries, Inc.
InventorRay H. Herner
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This invention relates to power valve assemblies and systems thereof and more particularly to their controls. It features a body having flow passages through which control fluid is directed to operate the interrelated valve. Said body is constructed to provide therein a plurality of openings or cavities each of which intersect one or more of said flow passages. Per the present invention, a plurality of unique independent adapters or control units are provided for application to said openings or cavities. Said adapters and/or control units are so designed that each thereof has different form and utility, may be selectively applied to said openings or cavities and easily and quickly interchanged or shifted from one thereof to another by virtue of which to influence the delivery and mode of application of control fluid and thereby the means and/or mode of control of the operation of the valve to which they relate. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides a simplistic compact valve assembly wherein said body serves in part as the base of a directional control valve with which it functionally interrelates to direct working fluid to and from a designated point of use. In any case the construction and arrangement insures a physical divorce of controls and attachments required for operation of a valve from the body of the valve per se.
Apparatus for use in controlling the operation of power valve assemblies or the like and systems thereof comprising means defining structure a portion of which serves as a valve base and another portion of which defines an extension of said valve base which is clear of that valve which it mounts in use thereof, said extension having therein a plurality of flow passages for the delivery therethrough and the direction therefrom a pressured flow of control fluid which is to be applied to control the operation of such valve as may be mounted to said valve base, said extension having an exterior surface portion opening from which are cavities which are directed inwardly thereof, at least a portion of said cavities being arranged to selectively intersect said flow passages within said extension and means selectively applied to said portion of said cavities at said exterior surface portion of said extension which are constructed and arranged, at least in part, to selectively influence and determine the movement of said control fluid in those passages to which said cavities relate thereby to determine and provide a selective means for and mode of control of the operation of the valve to which the control fluid delivered from said flow passages applies.
Apparatus for use in connection with power valve assemblies and the like and systems thereof comprising means defining a valve base including a portion which is adapted to mount a valve and an extension thereof which positions outwardly from the valve which it mounts, said extension being formed to receive and transmit therethrough a pressured flow of control fluid for the delivery and application thereof to control the operation of whatever valve may be mounted to said portion of said base at the time of such flow, and means mounting to said extension of said base constructed and arranged, at least in part, to selectively influence and determine the course of said flow and dictate the means and mode of control and operation of that valve which is mounted to said portion of said base at the time of said flow, said last named means being physically separated and apart from that valve which depends for its operation on the application thereof of said control fluid, said valve base and said extension thereof being integrated and having the form of an elongate generally rectangular block the valve mounting portion of which is offset to one end of its length and said last mentioned means being located adjacent the opposite end of said length of said base.
Apparatus for use in connection with power valve assemblies and the like and systems thereof comprising means defining a valve base including a portion which is adapted to mount a valve and an extension thereof which positions outwardly from the valve which it mounts, said extension being formed to receive and transmit therethrough a pressured flow of control fluid for the delivery and application thereof control the operation of whatever valve may be mounted to said portion of said base at the time of such flow, and means mounting to said extension of said base constructed and arranged, at least in part, to selectively influence and determine the course of said flow and dictate the means and mode of control and operation of that valve which is mounted to said portion of said base at the time of said flow, said last named means being physically separated and apart from that valve which depends for its operation on the application thereto of said control fluid, said extension of said base being formed with a plurality of cavities and said last named means comprising part of a plurality of adapters at least a portion of which may be selectively, releasably and interchangeably inserted in said cavities, at least in part, as and when required.
Apparatus for use in connection with power valve assemblies and the like and systems thereof comprising means defining a valve base including a portion which is adapted to mount a valve and an extension thereof which positions outwardly from the valve which it mounts, said extension being formed to receive and transmit therethrough a pressured flow of control fluid for the delivery and application thereof to control the operation of whatever valve may be mounted to said portion of said base at the time of such flow, and means mounting to said extension of said base constructed and arranged, at least in part, to selectively influence and determine the course of said flow and dictate the means and mode of control and operation of that valve which is mounted to said portion of said base at the time of said flow, said last named means being physically separated and part from that valve which depends for its operation on the application thereto of said control fluid, said means defining a valve base including said portion thereof adapted to mount a valve and said extension thereof forming parts of a block having an elongate generally rectangular form, said portion of said means defining a valve base adapted to mount a valve being offset to one end portion of the length of said block and being formed to provide therein a path for working fluid to move through and from said base, by way of the valve which mounts thereto, for a directed cycling of working fluid to and from a selected point of use and said path for said working fluid being spaced from and clear of said extension.
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