Valve assembly
AssigneeBTR plc
InventorsMartin W. Denmark, Stephen M. Buchan
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Abstract
A valve assembly comprising a valve body, an obturator rotatably mounted in the body and a transducer connected to or located adjacent the obturator in order to determine the position thereof. The transducer may comprise e.g. a potentiometer or a Hall effect device.
Claims11
A valve assembly comprising a valve body having a through bore, an obturator rotatably mounted within the body and capable of being rotated between open and closed positions, a stub axle extending from said through bore into a blind bore in said obturator, the outer extent of the through bore being plugged by a mounting plug which the stub axle abuts, and an electrical transducer secured to the valve body and operable on rotation of the obturator, said transducer having a spindle which is connected to the obturator and which is generally coaxial to an axis of rotation of the obturator, the position of said obturator being determined by the effect of said transducer on circuitry electrically connected thereto.
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