In-floor pool cleaning system
AssigneeBlue Square Manufacturing, LLC
InventorPaul Gerald Malinasky, Jr.
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Abstract
A distribution valve of an in-floor pool cleaning system is provided. The distribution valve includes a housing having an inlet port and a plurality of outlet ports. A turbine within the housing rotates about a shaft in response to fluid flowing through the inlet port. The turbine is releasably coupled to a gear mechanism, and the gear mechanism is releasably coupled to a distribution valve disk, the disk having an aperture therein. As the turbine rotates, the gear mechanism also rotates and drives the rotation of the disk around the shaft. The rotation of the disk sequentially places the aperture over one of the plurality of outlet ports, thus allowing fluid to flow out of the outlet port over which the aperture is positioned, but restricting fluid flow into any of the outlet ports that are covered by the disk.
Claims20
A valve for use in an in-floor pool cleaning system, the valve comprising a housing, having an internal cavity, an inlet port, and a plurality of outlet ports;
- a drive source and a fluid control plate inside the cavity and connected to the drive source, the fluid control plate having an aperture that is U-shaped extending from an edge surface of the fluid control plate;
- whereas the drive source rotates the fluid control plate to move the aperture sequentially over each of the outlet ports in order to permit fluid to exit the outlet port over which the aperture is positioned, wherein the fluid control plate substantially prevents blow-by into any of the other outlet ports of the plurality of outlet ports over which the aperture is not currently positioned.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.