Ball valve

Claim 1

A ball-valve of the type having: a first body portion; a ball chamber in said first body portion; an inlet passage in said first body portion, leading to said ball chamber; a second body portion releasably mounted on said first body portion on the oposite side of said ball chamber to said inlet passage; a outlet passage in said second body portion leading to said ball chamber; a diametrically apertured ball in the ball chamber; means for rotating the ball to open or close the way from the inlet passage to the outlet passage; replaceable resilient liner means encasing the ball and filling a cavity in said ball chamber around said ball between said body portion and said rotating means, said liner means including a first tubular extension forming an internal liner for said inlet passage, and a second tubular extension forming an internal liner for said outlet passage; an annular face being formed on said liner means in the region thereof encasing the ball and adjacent said second tubular extension of said liner means, said second body portion being formed with an annular mating face which is adapted to engage said annular face of said lliner means thereby to force and compress said liner means in said cavity.