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Three-port-two-way-diverter-valve-with-integral-drain-on-one-output-port

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Details

Inventors: Bajka, Peter;
Assignee: Bajka Engineering Enterprises (Mountain View, CA)
Primary Examiner: Rosenthal; Arnold
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Aine; Harry E.

The three port two-way diverter valve includes a generally T-shaped valve body having one input and two output ports connecting to its hollow cylindrical interior. A cylindrical diverter valve member is rotatably disposed within the cylindrical interior of the valve body. The cylindrical valve member is closed at one end and open at the other with the open end disposed in fluid communication with the input port at the base leg of the T-shaped body. The diverter valve member includes a side port of generally semi-cylindrical shape such that when the side port of the valve member is rotated into alignment with one or the other of the two other output ports, the flow entering at the base leg input port is directed through the respective output port disposed in alignment with the side port in the cylindrical valve member. In this manner, the flow entering the base leg may be diverted to either of the output ports, as desired. A drain port is provided in the base leg portion of the T-shaped body adjacent to one of the output ports and the nonapertured semi-cylindrical wall portion of the diverter valve member is externally recessed to as to provide a fluid communication path between the drain port and the associated output port so that fluid may drain back through the valve assembly from the output port through the recess in the valve member to the drain port. A sealing ring structure seals the rotatable valve member within the valve body.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A valve comprising: a valve body having a cavity with first, second, third and fourth openings intersecting with said cavity, said fourth opening being a drain opening; a valve member rotatably positioned in said cavity; said valve member having a generally cylindrical exterior surface and a hollow configuration with an end opening in alignment with said first opening; a side opening in said valve member positioned at substantially a right angle with respect to said end opening thereof, said valve member being formed and arranged for rotation about an axis of revolution to bring said side opening thereof into or out of alignment with said second opening or said third opening of said valve body so as to establish flow communication between said first and second openings or between said first and third openings; said side opening of said valve member having a width which is sufficient to span a distance between said second and third openings such that said valve is always open with flow communication being provided between said first opening and both said second and third openings when said valve member is in an intermediate angular position with said side opening of said valve member out of alignment with said second opening and out of alignment with said third opening; and said valve member having a drain passageway defined therein to provide fluid communication therethrough between said third and fourth openings of said valve body when said side opening of said valve member is in alignment with said second opening, whereby fluid communication is established between said fourth drain opening and said third opening via the intermediary of said drain passageway.
2.
The apparatus of claim 1 including sealing means for sealing said respective openings in said valve body to said valve member in a fluid tight manner.
3.
The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said sealing means comprises a unitary sealing structure of generally hollow cylindrical shape having first and second generally semi-cylindrical openings therein, one of said openings having an axial extent greater than the other

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