Patent ID: 8528315

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a cooling enclosure for a turbine engine valve having liquid fuel flow through the valve, wherein the valve comprises: a housing body elongated in an axial direction formed by a pair of half-housing portions and a pair of removable end plates at opposite ends of said elongated housing body, said pair of half-housing portions separable along at least one of a pair of longitudinally-extending seams on respective top and bottom surfaces of said elongated housing body; plural tabs on each half-housing portion and each removable end plate that are mated together with fasteners for securing said pair of half-housing portions together and for securing said pair of removable end plates to said pair of half-housing portions to thereby form said housing body; wherein each of said removable end plates is provided with a pair of elongated parallel guide arms extending axially beyond said end plate that are adapted to slide within axially-extending elongated open slots formed in said pair of half-housing portions; one or more apertures for accommodating a like number of valve fittings; and axially-aligned cooling air inlet and outlet openings in said pair of removable end plates for supplying and removing cooling air to said housing body for cooling the valve.