Valve body for a traveling barrel pump

In a subsurface traveling barrel, bottom anchor pump for pumping fluid from an oil and gas reservoir, the improvement comprising a traveling valve assembly which includes:

• a cylindrical valve body having a lower section, said lower section having a central bore therethrough and external threads which interact with a threaded connection on a traveling barrel to removably attach said valve body to said traveling barrel and adjacent internal threads;
• an upper section having a rod connection externally threaded for attachment to a pumping rod, a center section having a fishing neck portion and a cage portion;
• a valve cage accommodated entirely within the internal portion of said cage portion;
• a valve ball positioned within said valve cage;
• a valve seat abutting said valve care;
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• a ball and seat plug threaded into said internal threads of the lower section of said valve body for retaining said valve seat in said valve.