Patent Document ID: 5555907
Application ID: 08458429
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An enclosure for an electrically powered valve controller and an electrically operated valve, the valve and the valve controller connected by electrical wires, the enclosure comprising a box, a lid and a clamping means clamping the lid to the box, the box comprising a vertically oriented back exterior wall, a top exterior wall, a bottom exterior wall, two side exterior walls and an internal dividing wall having at least a pair of ends and attached to one of the exterior walls, the internal dividing wall positioned between two of the exterior walls in a slanted manner, the dividing wall dividing the box into an upper chamber containing the electrically operated valve and a lower chamber containing the electrically powered valve controller, an opening in the dividing wall allowing passage of the wires between the upper and lower chambers, the box further comprising drainage means adjacent a lower end of the slanted dividing wall, the drainage means draining water leaking from the valve into the upper chamber, the drainage means conveying the water from the upper chamber along the slanted dividing wall and through a throughhole in one of the exterior walls to the outside of the box under the influence of gravity, the box further comprising throughholes adjacent the top wall for water inlet and outlet fittings.