Patent ID: 7334596

Claim:
A pendulous control valve system comprising: a. a housing means having an inlet means and an outlet means, and b. a rotatable spherical valve having a diametrical conduit having a first end and a second end and having an internal gravitationally responsive mass distributed around a portion of said first end of said diametrical conduit within said rotatable spherical valve, and c. a substantially enclosing support means for said rotatable spherical valve connective within said housing means suitable for allowing said rotatable spherical valve to rotate and suitable for occluding said second end of said diametrical conduit when said diametrical conduit within said rotatable spherical valve has been rotated to a position within said substantially enclosing support means where occlusion of said second end can occur, whereby, flowable mass or energy may only be conveyed through said inlet means and said outlet means of said housing means when said internal gravitationally responsive mass has rotated said diametrical conduit within said rotatable spherical valve to a rotational position approximately perpendicular to the horizontal plane of said substantially enclosing support means.