Condensate collection system and drain
AssigneePotter Electric Signal Company, LLC
InventorsBruce M. Platusich, Henry J. Zawada
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Abstract
A valve system for collection and removal of condensation from a gas-pressurized fluid system. In one embodiment a single valve is used, having inlet, outlet and condensate collection ports and a valve body capable of movement between a position which connects the inlet port to the condensate collection port and a position which connects the condensate collection port to the outlet port. The valve is formed such that the inlet port is not connected to the outlet port while the valve is moved between the two positions, so that the pressurized system is not depressurized. A second embodiment uses two coupled valves replacing the single valve.
Claims20
A valve for draining condensate from a gas-pressurized fluid system comprising
- a valve case comprising:
- an inlet port for coupling to the system;
- an outlet port for coupling to a drain;
- a condensate collection port for coupling to a condensate collection chamber;
- and
- a rotating valve body within the valve case, coupled to the inlet port, the outlet port and the condensate collection port, the valve body being formed such that:
- when the valve body is in a first position the inlet port is in communication with the condensation collection port, condensate flows from the inlet port and through the condensation collection port by gravity, and the outlet port is blocked,
- when the valve body is in a second position the outlet port is in communication with the condensate collection port, condensate flows from the condensation collection port and through the output port by gravity, and the inlet port is blocked, and
- the inlet port is not in communication with the outlet port when the valve body is at any position between the first position and the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.