"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review ; March edition, 1825
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350536 | Vacuumized receptacle for sample collection A portable receptacle is vacuumized for use in taking an air or gas sample for subsequent examination to determine type, origin, components of the air or gas. Critical to a long shelf life of the vacuumized receptacle is a valve which virtually seals the receptacle ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7213589 | Compressed-gas gun A compressed gas injection device includes a projectile course for receiving and accelerating projectile bodies, a compressed gas housing which is connected to the projectile course and which is divided up into a compressed gas chamber and a working chamber by a par... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7174913 | Gas tap for a cooking appliance, with a cover for the rotary shaft The manual gas tap for a cooking appliance is of the type with a conical plug (3) for regulating the outlet gas flow (G), accommodated in a central housing (2a) in the tap body, and has a rotary actuating shaft (4) coupled to the conical ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7000896 | Reversible ball valve handle A valve having a valve body, a rotary valve member, a valve handle, and a selectively repositionable valve handle stop member. The valve body includes first and second openings into which the stop member may be installed. The openings are provided on opposite sides ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6935610 | Partial stroke valve test apparatus A partial stroke valve testing apparatus is operably inserted between an emergency shutdown valve and a valve actuator, and comprises a drive cam attached to a drive shaft interconnecting the valve and actuator and an engagement cam attached to an engagement shaft w... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6880802 | Valve device A valve device having a novel vale seat plate is provided. The valve seat plate has an inlet opening, an outlet opening, a front side and a back side. A sealing case covers the front side and inlet and outlet pipes are attached to the back side to communicate respec... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6769445 | Valve drive device A gear meshing with a pinion controls the angle of rotation of a valve element which is brought into sliding contact with a valve seat, thereby controlling the opening and closing of a communicating hole of outflow pipe. During welding the valve seat plate and a hou... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6748967 | Coupler for joining actuator and valve Couplers for joining actuators to valves are configured to allow their affixment to different makes and models of actuators and valves, thereby allowing an off-the-shelf S coupling solution and avoiding the need to specially construct a coupler which is only adapted... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6257271 | Servo operated valve with sonically welded housing and method of making same An electric servo motor operated valve has a motor and gear reduction subassembly and a valve body subassembly with a cross-ported cylindrical rotary valve member with an arcuately shaped resilient face seal member for sealing about the cross port. The mo... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6186164 | Rotary valve comprising a drawing device A rotary valve includes a housing having a housing bore which can be laterally closed by bearing covers. Inside the housing, a cellular wheel is rotatably supported. A guiding device extends in an axial direction of the cellular wheel and serves for drawi... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5941266 | Angle entry rotary valve Straight line flow rotary valves with the valve member flow passage (21) turned away from the pipeline flow axis (22), to dispose the valve internals to an access port (50) located downstream on the same flow axis of the valve member (11). Another embodim... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5531243 | Irrigation standpipe flow diverter and method for making same A flow diverter 10 for mounting on the flange 53 of an irrigation standpipe valve 52 comprising a hollow cylindrical body 12, having a side opening 14, an anchor strap 16 formed integrally with the body 12 below the side opening 14, and a cap 18 mounted t... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5499653 | Security devices for fluid flow lines A security device, particularly for a motor vehicle, which is adapted to isolate the fuel supply from the engine of the vehicle is disclosed. The security device comprises a first body member locatable at one side of a vehicle floor and a second body memb... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5476117 | Retrofit second packing chamber for quarter-turn valves A retrofit second packing chamber for quarter-turn valves that permits existing valves to be modified so as to meet modern emission standards without requiring replacement of the valves, and which can be assembled to existing valves in a simple, efficient... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5427134 | Rotary valve for hydraulic power steering A rotary valve for hydraulic power steering of vehicles in which one or more slots in the sleeve of the valve are constructed to exit from the end of the sleeve to form, in an annular extension of the sleeve, a radially extending aperture the sides of whi... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5423343 | Method and apparatus for making sewage pipe connections In a sewage piping system that includes a new sewer main line that crosses existing lateral sewer lines, a rotary valve is installed at the intersection of the main line and each lateral line. Ditches containing the lines may be backfilled. Before complet... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5385167 | Value testing device A device for controlling the rotation of a valve and/or valve actuator, such device including a housing secured to said valve and actuator, hub member rotatably received by said housing, at least one stop member receiving device provided said housing, and... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5329959 | Locking device A device for controlling the rotation of a valve and/or valve actuator, such device including a housing secured to said valve and actuator, hub member rotatably received by said housing, at least one stop member receiving device provided said housing, and... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5203370 | Mounting apparatus with fugitive emission collection means for directly coupling a rotary valve to an actuator having rotary drive means An apparatus for mounting a rotary actuator, having a rotary drive bushing, to a valve stem of a rotary controlled valve having first and second primary seals and a fugitive fluid collection chamber therebetween. The apparatus includes a mounting member d... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5014736 | Shut-off and control valve A shut-off valve mechanism for a shut-off and control valve has a generally cylindrical housing with inner and outer annular shoulder against which a valve seat disk is placed to prevent distortion of the valve seat disk. The valve control disk is pressed... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5002084 | Quick clean rotary valve A rotary valve and associated method of cleaning, including a generally cylindrical housing (104) defining a central axis, and a rotatable shaft (106) mounted in a first end plate (130) of the housing for rotation by a drive system (108) operating adjacen... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4830043 | Improvement in rotary valves In a rotary valve assembly including a housing having a valve chamber and a removable cover member defining an end wall of the chamber, a drive shaft journaled in the housing and having an end portion projecting into the valve chamber and a rotary valve d... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4813444 | Valve for spread set plumbing fixture and method of installation A valve assembly is disclosed for use with a spread set plumbing fixture wherein a casing is to be secured to a mounting surface in a precise, predetermined spatial relationship to a handle.... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4723567 | Gas flow control valve A compact gas flow control valve has a valve body having an inlet for receiving gas pressure, to provide gas at a substantially constant delivery pressure to be delivered by the gas flow control valve, and an outlet for delivery of the gas. Flow rate of t... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4699357 | Reinforced industrial butterfly valve A reinforced industrial butterfly valve incorporating a tubular housing, having a disc valve stem mounted for pivotal movement within the flow passage provided through the housing, a resilient seal provided around the interior periphery of the flow passag... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4630629 | Valve with compressible valve stem and valve body seals A valve is provided with improved bonnet-stem and bonnet-valve body seals. Both non-metallic seals may be simultaneously compressed by threading the bonnet to the valve body, with a valve stem seal sandwiched between the bonnet and an axially movale retai... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4285500 | Stud block for an eccentric rotary valve An eccentric rotary valve housing is provided which can be used in a flangeless construction or a flanged construction. In the flangeless construction, a stud block is recessed to pass around the offset neck portion and is of a size to resist bending and ... | 08/25/1981 |