Patent ID: 7178781
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: F16K

Abstract:
1. Valve or tap for fluids comprising a body, a revolving shutter in said body, and control means for the rotation of said shutter, wherein said control means comprise a first pin joined to the shutter and a second pin constrained in an angular direction to the first pin, said second pin being movable in an axial direction in relation to the first pin between a raised position for locking to the body and a lowered position for unlocking from said body, wherein a washer is provided around the second pin, said washer being locked into a slot made in the body of the valve, wherein the washer presents two opposite radial slits, and wherein the second pin presents a stem having a substantially rectangular section, a step being made in each of the sides of a smaller width of said stem, said step being designed to engage in a correspondent radial slit of the washer when the second pin is in the raised position and to disengage from said radial slit when the second pin is moved in the lowered position.