Patent ID: 9032988
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: F15B,F16K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A shuttle valve comprising: a body that is stackable with the body of another shuttle valve to form a stacked sequence shuttle valve body assembly, said body having an outer surface, a first inlet port, a second inlet port, an outlet port, said ports each having a center longitudinal axis in a flow direction, a cavity in said body, said cavity being connected by passages to said ports so that fluid flows through said cavity when passing from said first inlet port to said outlet port and when passing from said second inlet port to said outlet port; and only one valve member movably disposed in said body in response to fluid pressure, said valve member being a shuttle movably disposed in said cavity and having a first position closing one of said first and second inlet ports from said outlet port and enabling fluid flow from the other of said first and second inlet ports to said outlet port; said longitudinal axis of said outlet port being essentially coaxial with said longitudinal axis of one of said first and second inlet ports.