Filling valve
AssigneeStork Bottling Systems B.V.
InventorArthur Everardus Officier
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Abstract
Filling valve for dispensing metered quantities of a flow of medium, comprising: a valve housing with a flow passage which has an inlet and an outlet opening; an actuable valve body which is accommodated in the flow passage, for opening and closing the outlet opening; actuating means for moving the valve body to and fro between an open position and a closed position; in which the valve body comprises a transitional part having a substantially circular cross section, which transitional part transits into a pointed end part, the transitional part and the pointed end part merging smoothly into one another via a convexly curved part running into an adjoining concavely curved part.
Claims11
Filling valve for dispensing metered quantities of a unidirectional flow of medium having a flat velocity profile, comprising:
- a valve housing with a flow passage which has an inlet and an outlet opening;
- an actuable valve body which is accommodated in the flow passage, for opening and closing the outlet opening;
- actuating means for moving the valve body to and fro between an open position and a closed position, wherein said valve body comprises a transitional part having a substantially circular cross section, which transitional part transits into a pointed end part, said transitional part and said pointed end part merging smoothly into one another via a convexly curved part running into an adjoining concavely curved part, wherein said transitional part is substantially cylindrical, and said transitional part has a length L of at least 6 mm.
Filling valve for dispensing metered quantities of a flow of medium, comprising:
- a valve housing with a flow passage which has an inlet and an outlet opening;
- an actuable valve body which is accommodated in the flow passage, for opening and closing the outlet opening;
- actuating means for moving the valve body to and fro between an open position and a closed position, wherein said valve body comprises a transitional part having a substantially circular cross section, which transitional part transits into a pointed end part, said transitional part and said pointed end part merging smoothly into one another via a convexly curved part running into an adjoining concavely curved part, wherein said valve body is provided with guide fins, and wherein, a circumferential discharge groove is provided in said flow passage in the vicinity of said guide fins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.