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A TOGGLE ACTION VALVE COMPRISING A VALVE BODY HAVING A CYLINDRICAL BORE EXTENDING THEREIN FROM A MOUTH, A FIRST OPENING IN SAID BODY EXTENDING RADIALLY BORE, A SECOND OPENING IN SAID BODY AXIALLY DISPLACED FROM SAID FIRST OPENING, A SPOOL TRANSLATABLY DISPOSED WITHIN SAID BORE, SAID SPOOL HAVING A CIRCULAR FLANGE SEALED TO THE BORE ADAPTED TO PREVENT PASSAGE OF FLUID FROM SAID FIRST TO SAID SECOND OPENING, SPRING BIAS MEANS DISPOSED IN THE VALVE BODY ENGAGING THE SPOOL AND URGING THE SPOOL TOWARD THE MOUTH OF THE VALVE BODY, A TOGGLE HANDLE STRUCTURE MOUNTED OF THE VALVE BODY, A TOGGLE BORE OPENING, SAID HANDLE STRUCTURE INCLUDING A SPHERICAL BALL SEGMENT HAVING A CIRCULAR RIM AT ONE SIDE AND A RADIALLY DISPOSED SHAFT EXTENDING NORMALLY FROM THE CIRCULAR RIM, A SOCKET MOUNTED ON THE BODY CONFINING SAID BALL SEGMENT WITH ITS CENTER ON THE AXIS OF THE BORE HAVING AN OPENING ALIGNED WITH THE AXIS OF THE BORE AND EXTENDING ABOUT THE SHAFT, THE OPENING IN THE SOCKET BEING IN THE FORM OF A SLOT AND EXTENDING ALONG THE SOCKET FOR A DISTANCE TO ALLOW THE TOGGLE HANDLE TO BE MOVED FROM SAID AXIAL POSITION TO A SECOND POSITION AT AN OBTUSE ANGLE FROM SAID FIRST POSITION WHEREBY THE HANDLE IS LOCKED IN SAID SECOND POSITION, SAID SOCKET HAVING AN ELONGATED CHANNEL ALIGNED WITH THE BORE AND EXTENDING BETWEEN THE OPENING AND THE MOUTH OF THE BORE, SAID SPOOL HAVING AN ELONGATED DRIVE MEMBER TRANSLATABLY DISPOSED WITHIN THE ELONGATED CHANNEL OF THE SOCKET AND HAVING A SURFACE CONFRONTING THE ONE SIDE OF THE BALL SEGMENT, AND THE ONE SIDE OF THE BALL SEGMENT BEING IN ABUTMENT WITH THE CONFRONTING SURFACE OF THE DRIVE MEMBER, ROTATION OF SAID BALL SEGMENT ON ANGULAR MOVEMENT OF THE HANDLE FROM ITS AXIAL POSITION MOVING A PORTION OF THE RIM OF THE BALL SEGMENT CLOSURE TO THE MOUTH OF SAID BORE AND SAID PORTION OF THE RIM TRANSLATING SAID SPOOL INWARDLY ON SAID MOVEMENT OF SAID HANDLE TO APOSITION CHANGING THE OPERATIVE CONDITION OF THE VALVE.