Patent GB-1182641-A (GB)
Title: Pilot Operated Control Valve Mechanism
IPC: F15B13/04
Filed: 1967-03-02
Abstract: 1,182,641. Valves. KOEHRING CO. 2 March, 1967 [6 July, 1966], No. 9949/67. Heading F2V. [Also in Division F1] In an hydraulic motor control valve unit 16, Fig. 1, comprising an inlet port 36 and passage 35, fluid operated supply valves 31, 33 normally isolating inlet passage 35 from service ports 29, 30 and lines 48, 49 leading to the motor 15 and fluid operated exhaust valves 32, 34 normally isolating the service ports 29, 30 from a return port 40 connected by a line 41 to a reservoir 26, the supply valves 31, 33 are held closed by supply pressure admitted through a check valve controlled orifice 64, Fig. 3, at the inner end of a slidable tubular insert 31<SP>1</SP>, 33<SP>1</SP> into a spring chamber 55 surrounded by a fixed sleeve 57 and of relatively large cross-sectional area and each supply valve is opened when said chamber pressure is relieved to an associated service port 29, 30 through passages 68, 67, 66 when a valve 69 is unseated from passage 68 by fluid actuated means, e.g. a plunger 71 when subjected to fluid pressure from a control port 42, 43 and the exhaust valves 32, 34 are held closed by service port pressure being admitted through orifice 64 at the inner end of a slidable tubular insert 32<SP>1</SP>, 34<SP>1</SP> into spring chamber 55 providing a relatively large cross-sectional area; the exhaust valves being opened when said chamber pressure is relieved past a valve 76 when control port 42, 43 is connected to reservoir 26. Control of fluid to supply port 36 and to control ports 42, 43 is effected by a by-pass valve 24 and a spool valve unit 18 as described in U.K. Specifications 1,045,764 and 1,045,765. In operation and with the spool 20 of valve 18 moved to the left of it open centre position to lower the motor piston, the back pressure in spool chamber 22 closes by-pass valve 24 to allow pump 21 to deliver to the inlet port 36 of valve unit 16 whilst spool chamber pressure is transmitted through control line 44 to port 42 thereby opening supply valve 31 whilst control port 43 and line 46 are connected to reservoir 26 through spool valve 18 resulting in opening of exhaust valve 34. On further leftward movement of spool 20 to a float position, both control ports 42, 43 and the inlet 36, are vented to reservoir and both supply valve inserts 31, 33 remain closed by pressure fluid derived from service ports 29, 30. Either of the exhaust valve inserts 32<SP>1</SP>, 34<SP>1</SP> are then free to open in response to pressure in its associated service port and fluid pressure thus transmitted to the exhaust passage 39 acts against a shoulder 80 of the other exhaust valve to open the same. In a modification unseating of valve 69, Fig. 5, to relieve the spring chamber 55 is effected by the control fluid displacing a plunger 85 to the right whereupon a recessed mid-position thereof registers with a bore 91. The plunger also serves to relieve undue high pressures generated in chamber 55 by suddenly stopping a heavy descending load, and the plunger 85 also flow of small amounts of supply fluid to the motor without opening of the supply valve. Such flow results in inching" " of the motor and occurs through control port 42, associated groove 73, a bore 93, 94 in plunger 85 and passages 66, 67 leading to the service port. In a modified control unit 160, Fig. 8, having supply valves 31, 33 with slidable inserts 101, 103 and exhaust valves 32, 34 with inserts 102, 104 relieving of the spring chamber 105 to allow insert 101 to open under inlet pressure at port 36 is effected through a passage 125 in an end cover 110, a groove in a plunger 131 when the latter is depressed by control pressure so that the groove is in register with passage 125, a passage 126, a check valve 129 and a passage 127 leading to service port 29. Valve insert 101 also has a groove 114 from which extend passages 118, 115 whereby spring chamber 105 is maintained either at inlet port pressure or service port pressure. The spring chamber 105 of exhaust valve 32 is relieved through a cover passage 124 an axial bore 137 of plunger 131, a ball valve 140 and the control port 122 when connected to reservoir. " Inching " of the motor is effected by control pressure being transmitted through apertures 130 in the wall of plunger 131, passage 126, check valve 129 and passage 127 leading to the service port 29. A modified exhaust valve, Fig. 11, has mounted within its insert 102<SP>1</SP> a further insert 159 within which is a poppet valve 153 having a tubular stem 154 with a wall aperture 163 by which the associated service port 29 is connected to the space between the ends of inserts 102<SP>1</SP>, 159 and from thence through a passage 168 to the spring chamber 105. Undue high pressure in port 29 unseats poppet valve 153 and is relieved through registering ports 167, 157 in the two inserts to exhaust passage 39. When valve 153 opens it also relieves pressure in spring chamber 105 through a passage 168 in insert 159 and ports 167, 157 resulting in the exhaust valve being opened.