Patent ID: 9512927
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: F16K

Claim Text:
1. A valve comprising: a valve body having a pair of opposed sidewalls each having an inner surface and an opposed outer surface, there being a chamber between the inner surfaces of said sidewalls; a gate member within said chamber and shiftable along a generally rectilinear path of travel between a valve open position and a valve closed position, the entirety of said path of travel lying in a first plane; at least one elongated pressurized gas reservoir defined by the outer surface of one of said sidewalls and an adjacent wall surface spaced therefrom, the majority of the length of said reservoir lying in a second plane generally parallel with said first plane, said gate member in said valve open position located in side-by-side adjacency to said at least one reservoir; and an actuator assembly configured to initiate a flow of said pressurized gas from said at least one reservoir and cause said gate member from said valve open to said valve closed position, said at least one reservoir configured to hold a sufficient amount of pressurized gas to effect the shifting of said gate member between said valve open and valve closed positions without said at least one reservoir being connected to and receiving gas from an external source of pressurized gas during shifting of said gate member.