Motor vehicles – Surface effect vehicles – Dynamic seal or fluid curtain
Patent
1982-09-13
1984-08-07
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Motor vehicles
Surface effect vehicles
Dynamic seal or fluid curtain
60384, 60385, 74388PS, 91433, 13762566, B62D 506
Patent
active
044638191
ABSTRACT:
An improved hydraulic control valve is disclosed for providing the metering of fluid to a steering arrangement such as that normally employed on a motorized vehicle. The steering arrangement includes a piston-cylinder assembly, a main pump for supplying pressurized fluid from a fluid reservoir to the control valve and a control pump connected to the control valve which is actuated by a manually operated steering mechanism. The improved control valve includes a housing having an elongated bore formed therein. Movably positioned within the bore is a valve spool which has at least three annular grooves formed thereon separated by a pair of lands. The valve spool also contains a longitudinal bore formed therein which intersects a transverse bore which opens into the centrally positioned annular groove. The valve spool cooperates with the elongated bore to form control pressure chambers at each end thereof. Also positioned at each end of the valve spool are check valves which are closed when the valve spool is in a neutral position and which open when the valve spool is subjected to pressure loading. Fluid flow through the valve is directed by a plurality of passages formed in the housing. One of the passages connects the main pump to the elongated bore, while two working passages connect opposite ends of the piston-cylinder assembly to the elongated bore approximate the outer two annular grooves which are formed in the valve spool. There are also two control passages connecting the opposite ends of the control pump to the elongated bore approximate the pair of lands formed on the valve spool and at least one reservoir passage connecting the reservoir to the elongated bore approximately between an outer end of the valve spool and the outer annular groove formed thereon. This improved hydraulic control valve can be used for any constant pressure system.
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Becker Manfred
Ortlepp Hilmar
Deere & Company
Hill Mitchell J.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
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