IP Library Granted Patent US 8,302,933
Granted Patent B2
US 8,302,933 · App. 11/921,974 · Granted Nov 6, 2012

Valve device

Assignee: Buerkert Werke GmbH
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Patent No.
US 8,302,933
App. No.
11/921,974
Granted
Nov 6, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

A valve device has a valve space ( 14 ) formed in a housing ( 12 a, 12 b ), a valve drive ( 16 ) sealed against the valve space ( 14 ) by means of a sealing body ( 26 ) made of an elastic material, a two-armed actuating lever ( 32 ) which extends through the sealing body and whose first arm ( 34 ) is connected to the valve drive ( 16 ), and a closing body ( 28 ) molded on the sealing body ( 26 ), which forms a jacket of the second arm ( 30 ) of the actuating lever ( 32 ). The closing body ( 28 ) can cover or clear a valve seat ( 24 ) disposed in a valve space ( 14 ) by a swivel movement of the actuating lever ( 32 ), wherein the actuating lever ( 32 ) includes a spatially fixed bearing axis.

Claims (54)

1. A valve device, comprising

a valve space formed in a housing,

a valve drive sealed against the valve space by means of a sealing body made of an elastic material,

a two-armed actuating lever, which extends through the sealing body and whose first arm is connected to the valve drive, and

a closing body molded on the sealing body, which forms a jacket of the second arm of the actuating lever,

wherein the closing body can cover or clear a valve seat disposed in the valve space by a swivel movement of the actuating lever, and

wherein the actuating lever has a spatially fixed bearing axis,

said sealing body including a plurality of recesses in the vicinity of the bearing axis, wherein the recesses are trenches, which on the side of the sealing body facing away from the valve space extend parallel to the bearing axis on both sides.

2. A valve device, comprising

a valve space formed in a housing,

a valve drive sealed against the valve space by means of a sealing body made of an elastic material,

a two-armed actuating lever, which extends through the sealing body and whose first arm is connected to the valve drive, and

a closing body molded on the sealing body, which forms a jacket of the second arm of the actuating lever,

wherein the closing body can cover or clear a valve seat disposed in the valve space by a swivel movement of the actuating lever, and

wherein the actuating lever has a spatially fixed bearing axis,

wherein on two opposed sides, which intersect the bearing axis, the sealing body has indentations which extend over the entire thickness of the sealing body.

3. A valve device, comprising

a valve space formed in a housing,

a valve drive sealed against the valve space by means of a sealing body made of an elastic material,

a two-armed actuating lever, which extends through the sealing body and whose first arm is connected to the valve drive, and

a closing body molded on the sealing body, which forms a jacket of the second arm of the actuating lever,

wherein the closing body can cover or clear a valve seat disposed in the valve space by a swivel movement of the actuating lever, and

wherein the actuating lever has a spatially fixed bearing axis,

wherein the sealing body has at least one thickened portion in the vicinity of the bearing axis and wherein the thickened portion is a bead interrupted by the actuating lever, which on the side of the sealing body facing away from the valve space extends along the bearing axis.

4. A valve device, comprising

a valve space formed in a housing,

a valve drive sealed against the valve space by means of a sealing body made of an elastic material,

a two-armed actuating lever, which extends through the sealing body and whose first arm is connected to the valve drive, and

a closing body molded on the sealing body, which forms a jacket of the second arm of the actuating lever,

wherein the closing body can cover or clear a valve seat disposed in the valve space by a swivel movement of the actuating lever, and

wherein the actuating lever has a spatially fixed bearing axis,

wherein the sealing body has at least one thickened portion in the vicinity of the bearing axis and wherein two beads are provided, which on the side of the sealing body facing away from the valve space extend parallel to the bearing axis on both sides.

5. A valve device, comprising

a valve space formed in a housing,

a valve drive sealed against the valve space by means of a sealing body made of an elastic material,

a two-armed actuating lever, which extends through the sealing body and whose first arm is connected to the valve drive, and

a closing body molded on the sealing body, which forms a jacket of the second arm of the actuating lever,

wherein the closing body can cover or clear a valve seat disposed in the valve space by a swivel movement of the actuating lever, and

wherein the actuating lever has a spatially fixed bearing axis,

wherein the sealing body has at least one thickened portion in the vicinity of the bearing axis and wherein a plurality of knobs are provided, which on the side of the sealing body facing away from the valve space are arranged on both sides of the bearing axis.

6. A valve device, comprising

a valve space formed in a housing,

a valve drive sealed against the valve space by means of a sealing body made of an elastic material,

a rigid two-armed actuating lever, which extends through the sealing body and whose first arm is connected to the valve drive, said actuating lever including a transition region of the lever arms,

a closing body molded on the sealing body, which forms a jacket of the second arm of the actuating lever,

a bearing portion on the housing, and

two bearing shoulders formed in the transition region of the lever arms, which in their longitudinal direction substantially extend over the entire width of the actuating lever and are supported free of the jacket and directly on the bearing portion of the housing,

wherein the closing body can cover or clear a valve seat disposed in the valve space by a swivel movement of the actuating lever about a bearing axis extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the bearing shoulders.

7. The valve device according to claim 6 , including two bearing axes extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the bearing shoulders, wherein the swivel movement is effected in dependence on the direction of movement about one of said two spatially fixed bearing axes.

8. The valve device according to claim 6 , wherein the bearing shoulders are formed by convexly curved surfaces, which support on associated mating surfaces in the bearing portion of the housing.

9. The valve device according to claim 8 , wherein the swivel movement is effected about a spatially fixed bearing axis.

10. The valve device according to claim 6 , wherein the sealing body is clamped in the housing in the direction of the spatial extension of the lever.

11. The valve device according to claim 6 , wherein on its side facing the valve space, the sealing body has recesses on both sides of the closing body.

12. The valve device according to claim 6 , wherein its maximum width in the direction of the bearing axis is 4.5 mm.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Feb 12, 2010
From: BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & CO. KG
To: BUERKERT WERKE GMBH
Reel/Frame 023945/0036 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 25, 2008
From: SCHEIBE, RALF
To: BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 020553/0302 →
Priority Claims (2)
DE 20 2005 010 075 U · Jun 27, 2005 · national
DE 20 2006 006 862 U · Apr 28, 2006 · national
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