Valves and valve actuation – With correlated flow path – Pipe coupling or union
Patent
1990-05-18
1992-10-06
Rivell, John
Valves and valve actuation
With correlated flow path
Pipe coupling or union
285305, F16L 2900
Patent
active
051524996
ABSTRACT:
A weldless one-piece flow device body such as a valve body has one or more tubes or stubs having distal ends of a greater diameter than the stubs, the stubs extending integrally from the valve body. All machining, plating, and valve assembly operations are performed before end fittings such as compression nuts are affixed to the stubs. The compression nuts with internal threads are slid over the stubs' distal ends, and the reverse side of a vacuum face seal on each distal end has a controlled radius R.sub.0. The nut includes an internal cylindrical semi-circular groove inboard of the end of the nut opposite the nut threads. An aperture having a diameter equal to or somewhat greater than 2R.sub.0 extends at an angle through a nut wall and provides a tangential route to force a slide wire into and around the groove and partially into an annulus formed around the stub between the controlled radius R.sub.0 and a wall of the valve body. The inner half of the slide wire extending from the semi-circular groove is captured in the annulus and is axially slidable therealong parallel to the stub. When connection tubing is attached, the slide wire is compressed into the controlled recess R.sub.0 and a metal gasket compressed between a face seal on the stub distal end and a face sealing surface of the connection tubing.
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Silverman Ira J.
Warne Bruce R.
Rivell John
Sequoia Controls Limited
Waltco Engineering Co.
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