Patent ID: 8701711

Claim:
A rotary flow valve apparatus, comprising: a front plate comprising a plurality of fluid entry ports running therethrough; a rear plate comprising one central fluid exit port running through a substantial center thereof and P peripheral fluid exit ports running through a substantially circumferential periphery thereof, where P is greater than or equal to 1; P flow selector bars integrally connecting said front plate with said rear plate and fixing said front plate relative to said rear plate, each of said P flow selector bars corresponding on a one-to-one basis with one of said P peripheral fluid exit ports and angularly positioned relative to said central fluid exit port at substantially the same angle as its corresponding peripheral fluid exit port; P inter-bar flow channels defined between rotationally-adjacent pairs of said flow selector bars; a selector cylinder comprising a solid cylinder body, a central flow channel running therethrough, a peripheral flow channel running therethrough, and a flow channel neck running therethrough, said flow channel neck providing unimpeded fluidic communication between said peripheral flow channel and said central flow channel; and said selector cylinder seated over and freely and continuously rotatable around said flow selector bars and relative to said front and rear plates.