Assertion: snorkel's valve | /r/HasProperty | closed
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text: One other object is to provide a large pressure at the valve seal when the valve is closed but to do so without causing excessive friction between the closing float and a float receiving portion of the valve.
text: In addition, because the inventive snorkel vent is positioned at the lower most or distal end 25 of the laterally extending pipe 22 and is well below the inlet 15 through the vent cap 14 (e.g. at least two and preferably twelve or more inches below), even if a small amount of water did make it through the outlet 44 prior to the valve being closed, that water would not be of a sufficient volume to make it up through the second vertical section of pipe 34 and into the vent conduit 12.