Rotary selector valve
This paper discusses a multi-port valve which internally supports a rotatable trunnion having an elbow passage between a nozzle portion of the trunnion and a lower end outlet that communicates with a test port of the valve body. The outer end of the nozzle has an axially reciprocable hollow seal piston with a seal support ring whose outer face is formed with an endless groove to receive an O-ring. An actuating shaft is coaxially mounted in an upper end of the trunnion and has a lower end with an eccentric pin engaged in a slot of the seal piston to reciprocate the seal piston into and out of sealing registration around a port selected by rotation of the trunnion. External ends of the actuating shaft and trunnion are respectively drivably coupled to a coaxial sprocket wheel and geneva wheel. A housing on top of the valve contains an input rotor fitted with a cam and a drive roller for engaging radial slots of the geneva wheel alternately with cam engagement of the dwell notches of the geneva wheel. Concurrently and in advance of forward rotation of the geneva wheel, a rotor driven seal actuating yoke a free end engages one of a series of radial slots of the sprocket to rotate the sprocket in a retrograde direction to disengage the seal. When the yoke is disengaged, a detent mechanism temporarily locks the geneva and sprocket wheels together for co-rotation in a forward direction as the geneva drive roller again comes into engagement with the geneva wheel. After the nozzle has been advanced one step, further rotation of the input rotor advances an arm independently pivotally mounted on the yoke to compress a spring mechanism to bias the yoke and sprocket to compress the seal on a seat around the next port.
- Assignee:
- Santa Fe Energy Co., Santa Fe Springs, CA (USA)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4989641; A
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 7-420026
- OSTI ID:
- 5260100
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 11 Oct 1989
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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