Patent ID: 7380491

Claim:
Flow valve for a flow distributor for the pressure fluid supply of several hydraulic consumers comprising a pressure regulator and a metering orifice which can be flown through for dividing a flow in the direction of the consumer and for accumulating pressure fluid flows in the opposite direction, wherein the pressure regulator includes a pressure regulator piston biased into a home position to which, on the one hand, pressure prevailing in a LS line can be applied and, on the other hand, pressure prevailing in the pressure fluid flow path between the metering orifice and the pressure regulator can be applied, characterized in that the pressure regulator piston includes two control edges one of which is active during accumulating and the other is active during dividing and that, moreover, at least one LS control edge is provided by which, when the pressure regulator is opened, for load-indicating into the LS line a LS cross-section can be controlled to be opened for tapping off the pressure prevailing in the pressure fluid flow path.