Pivoted float actuated valve

Abstract

Abstract A relatively rigid valve body adapted to be fixedly supported and have a source of fluid pressure connected thereto; a passage in the body connecting the source to an open-sided chamber in the body, the wall of the chamber having an annular groove around the inner end of the passage; a relatively rigid orifice body fixedly connected to the valve body and closing the open side of the chamber and having an annular groove in its inner face opposed to the groove in the wall of the chamber; an annular valve seat of relatively flexibly deformable material having its ends in sealed and supported engagement in the grooves of the valve body and orifice body, and having an integral flexible center member projecting into the interior of the annulus of the valve seat; the surface of the center member having a segmental convex spherical surface opposed to the inside of the orifice body, the orifice body having a concave surface located in coacting adjacent relation to the convex surface, with an orifice opening from the concave surface to a director passage formed in the orifice body and open to the exterior of the orifice body; and a relatively rigid actuating bar engaged in a hole extending from within the center member outwardly through the valve seat, the valve body having an opening formed therethrough passing the actuating bar in clearing relation and providing an unsupported, noncontacted, area on the outside of the valve seat surrounding the projecting end of the actuating bar; the outer end of the actuating bar being connected to a float arm having a float on its free end, and a biasing weight adjustable along its length.

Inventors

• 👤 Robert Jonathan Moore

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