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Title: FLUID SELECTING APPARATUS

Patent ·
OSTI ID:4261991

A valve designed to selectively sample fluids from a number of sources is described. The valve comprises a rotatable operating lever connected through a bellows seal to a rotatable assembly containing a needle valve, bearings, and a rotational lock. The needle valve is connected through a flexible tube to the sample fluid outlet. By rotating the lever the needle valve is placed over . one of several fluid sources and locked in position so that the fluid is traasferred through the flexible tubing and outlet to a remote sampling system. The fluids from the nonselected sources are exhausted to a waste line. This valve constitutes a simple, dependable means of selecting a sample from one of several scurces.

Research Organization:
Originating Research Org. not identified
NSA Number:
NSA-13-004340
Assignee:
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Patent Number(s):
US 2852041
OSTI ID:
4261991
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-59
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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