Patent ID: 6076804
Filing Date: 2000-06-20
Classification: F16K,Y10S

Abstract:
A valve assembly comprising:A) housing means having an upper wall and a bottom wall, and an internal valve bore that starts on said upper wall and extends perpendicularly towards said bottom wall without reaching said bottom wall, and said internal valve bore includes a first and second counter bore internal step surfaces defining first, second, and third portions of different diameters with said first portion being adjacent to said upper wall and having a predetermined diameter, said second portion having a smaller diameter than said first portion, and said third portion having a diameter that is smaller than said second portion, and said housing means further including inlet and outlet passages that connect with said third and second portions for said internal valve bore perpendicularly at two points separated a predetermined distance and said inlet being connected to a source of a pressurized liquid;B) a valve assembly being housed within said internal valve bore, said valve assembly including a cylindrical body with two ends and an aperture that substantially coincides with said outlet passage and an upper flange extending outwardly and inwardly from one of said ends and cooperatively disposed abattingly against said first counter bore internal step surface, and said cylindrical body having a longitudinal through opening and said valve assembly further including a stem assembly having first and second sections locked to each other after being passed through said cylindrical body, said stem assembly having first and second ends corresponding to said first and second sections and said first section includes an activator head that extends beyond said cylindrical body, a shank rigidly extending from said activator head and a disk at a spaced apart relationship with respect to said activator head, and said disk having a diameter larger than said through opening of said cylindrical body, and said second section including a central longitudinal opening and a guiding disk positioned at said second end for keeping said valve assembly centrally disposed within said valve bore and further including a peripheral flange at a spaced apart relationship with respect to said guiding disk and closer to the longitudinal center of said second section, said peripheral flange including upper and lower sides;C) an O-ring mounted on said second counter bore internal step surface and said O-ring member having an external diameter slightly larger than the internal diameter of said second section so that said O-ring member is pressure fitted thereon, and the inner diameter of said O-ring being slightly smaller than the diameter of said third section so that said O-ring member protrudes slightly inwardly to prevent said convex surface from passing to said first portion and thus actings as the valve seat;D) an elastic cylindrical member having compression characteristics that permit the recuperation of its at rest longitudinal dimension upon the removal of a compression force, and said cylindrical member being partially inserted in said central longitudinal opening urging said convex surface against said O-ring; andE) a handle member pivotally mounted to said housing means and having a contact protrusion at a cooperative position that brings said protrusion in contact with said activator head so that when a torque is applied to said handle member and transmitted through said protrusion to said activator head, the lower section of said valve assembly is forced downwardly compressioning said elastic cylindrical member thereby permitting said fluid to flow from said inlet passage through said internal valve bore and to said outlet passage.