Refrigeration – Automatic control – Refrigeration producer
Patent
1998-10-13
1999-06-22
Tapolcal, William E.
Refrigeration
Automatic control
Refrigeration producer
236 92B, 236102, F25B 4104
Patent
active
059138912
ABSTRACT:
A thermal expansion valve comprises a metal tube for flowing a fluid therethrough, and a metal rod fixed only at a first end in the tube and disposed wholly within the tube, the metal tube having a greater coefficient of expansion than the metal rod. A plug having an orifice therethrough is disposed in the tube proximate a free end of the rod. Lengthwise thermal expansion and contraction of the tube and the rod caused by the temperature of the fluid in the tube and around the rod causes the free end of the rod to retreat from the plug to increase flow of the fluid therethrough, and causes the free end of the rod to approach the plug to restrict flow of the fluid therethrough, respectively.
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