Patent ID: 8714182
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: B05B,E04H,F16K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A valve for use in an in-floor pool cleaning system, the valve comprises a housing, having an internal cavity, an inlet port, and a plurality of outlet ports, an interior floor that includes a plurality of openings, and each of the plurality of openings is to one of the plurality of outlet ports; a drive source and a fluid control plate inside the cavity; the drive source is an impeller and a gear and is in fluid communication with the inlet port, whereby fluid that enters the inlet port rotates the drive source; the fluid control plate includes an aperture and a gear assembly mounted to the fluid control plate; the gear of the impeller of the drive source is coupled to the gear assembly of the fluid control plate whereby rotation of the drive source urges rotation of the fluid control plate so as to move the aperture sequentially over each of the outlet ports to permit fluid to enter the outlet port over which the aperture is positioned; the fluid control plate has a bottom surface that is in contact with the interior floor to assist in preventing leakage into each of the plurality of openings over which the aperture of the fluid control plate is not positioned; the housing has an interior wall and a gear surface on the interior wall; and the gear surface is in mechanical communication with the gear assembly.