Valve assembly with liquid-seal electrical plug connection

Claim 1

A VALVE ASSEMBLY COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: (A) A PLURALITY OF SEPARABLE CASING SECTIONS RELEASABLY SECURABLE TOGETHER AT COOPERATIVELY ABUTTING MATING FACES FORMED RESPECTIVELY THEREON, (B) A SOLENOID IN ONE OF SAID CASING SECTIONS FOR ACTUATING VALVE MEANS IN A SECOND ONE OF SAID CASING SECTIONS, AND (C) MEANS FOR ESTABLISHING AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN A THIRD ONE OF SAID CASING SECTIONS AND SAID ONE CASING SECTION WHEREBY TO CONNECT SAID SOLENOID TO A SOURCE OF CURRENT INCIDENTAL TO THE ASSEMBLY OF SAID CASING SECTIONS, AND MEANS COMPRISING: (I) A FIRST TERMINAL ELEMENT HAVING TERMINALS CONNECTED TO SAID SOLENOID AND A FLANGE SLIDABLY INSERTABLE IN AN APERTURE THROUGH AN OPEN SIDE OF SAID APERTURE, SAID APERTURE BEING IN THE MATING FACE OF SAID ONE CASING SECTION THAT ABUTS WITH A MATING FACE OF SAID THIRD CASING SECTION AND SAID OPEN SIDE COINCIDING WITH THE MATING FACE OF SAID ONE CASING SECTION THAT ABUTS A MATING FACE OF SAID SECOND CASING SECTION, (II) A SECOND TERMINAL ELEMENT HAVING TERMINALS RESPECTIVELY CONNECTED BY WIRES TO A SOURCE OF CURRENT AND SECURED IN SAID THIRD CASING SECTION AT THE MATING FACE THEREOF THAT ABUTS WITH A MATING FACE OF SAID ONE CASING SECTION, (III) SAID FIRST AND SECOND TERMINAL ELEMENTS BEING MOVABLE COAXIALLY INTO OR OUT OF COOPERATIVE CONNECTION UPON ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY, RESPECTIVELY, OF SAID ONE AND SAID THIRD CASING SECTIONS, AND SAID ONE CASING SECTION BEING REMOVABLE WITHOUT SEPARATION OF SAID TERMINAL ELEMENTS BY LATERAL SLIDABLE ACTION OF SAID ONE CASING SECTION WITH RESPECT TO SAID FIRST TERMINAL ELEMENT.