Fluid handling – With indicator – register – recorder – alarm or inspection means – Position or extent of motion indicator
Patent
1979-02-12
1980-10-14
Michalsky, Gerald A.
Fluid handling
With indicator, register, recorder, alarm or inspection means
Position or extent of motion indicator
91424, 13759616, 251364, F15B 2000
Patent
active
042275474
ABSTRACT:
Means for sensing a discrepant position between two normally closed valves of a double valve assembly used to control an industrial machine such as an air-operated press clutch and brake. The indicating means comprises switch means responsive to the movement of each of the valves and so positioned that the switch means is actuated very close to the closed position of each valve. The switch means controls power to solenoid-operated pilot valves for the two main control valves of the double valve assembly. By controlling the switch means immediately adjacent the closed valve positions, the safe or closed part of the cycle is monitored for these valves, which are in themselves stable because of their normally closed nature. The switch means may be either cam-operated mechanical switches, proximity switches, photoelectric sensors, or contacts directly engageable by the inlet valve elements and utilizing the valve body itself as part of the electrical circuit. The invention is applicable to a double valve assembly in which both inlet and exhaust flow is in parallel through the two valves, or one in which the inlet flow is in series and the exhaust flow in parallel.
REFERENCES:
patent: 473488 (1892-04-01), Wood
Michalsky Gerald A.
Ross Operating Valve Company
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