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US 6,659,741 B2Granted
Travelling valve assembly for a fluid pump
OwnerJeffrey D. Spearsinventor
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Abstract
A travelling valve assembly for use in a sucker rod activated fluid pump includes: a flow through body member having at least one rounded groove formed in the lower end of a central passageway of the flow through body member; and a downwardly depending member adapted to strike a ball valve of the valve assembly after the ball valve rises off a valve seat member of the valve assembly.
Claims10
A travelling valve assembly, for use in a sucker rod actuated fluid pump having a pump barrel having a lower end with a standing valve disposed in the lower end of the pump barrel and a moveable plunger disposed within the pump barrel, comprising:
- a housing having upper and lower ends, the housing adapted to be disposed within the pump barrel and associated with the moveable plunger;
- a valve seat member generally disposed toward, and within, the lower end of the housing;
- a flow through body member generally disposed within, and secured to, the upper end of the housing and is adapted to be secured to the lower end of the moveable plunger;
- a ball valve disposed within the housing, generally below the flow through body member, and above the valve seat member;
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- the flow through body member includes a downwardly depending member adapted to strike the ball valve after the ball valve rises off the valve seat member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.