Valves and valve actuation – With correlated flow path – Tank
Patent
1993-10-25
1994-11-15
Chambers, A. Michael
Valves and valve actuation
With correlated flow path
Tank
251900, 251252, 137801, F16K 5100
Patent
active
053640691
ABSTRACT:
A draincock assembly for a radiator tank of the type that has a drain tube opening into a cylindrical valve body surface across a sharp aperture, with an O-ring seal on a movable valve member that is pulled back and forth across the aperture as the valve opens and closes. A guiding web is molded across the center of the aperture, running in the axial direction. As the O-ring moves, it's otherwise unsupported section is supported and guided by the web. The O-ring is prevented from bulging out and being cut by the edge of the aperture.
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patent: 4134573 (1979-01-01), Messinger
patent: 4679618 (1987-07-01), Farkas
patent: 5246202 (1993-09-01), Beamer
Farkas Frank J.
Minner Jeffrey L.
Chambers A. Michael
General Motors Corporation
Griffin Patrick M.
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