Flow control valve

Abstract

The flow control valve has a drive, a housing with a regulating member provided with inlet and outlet fittings with passages and movable and fixed regulating teeth. The flow control valve comprises a composite housing having an upper and lower parts mounted on a support. The lateral surface of the drive disc is provided with Archimedes spiral, the regulating member is provided with evenly spaced projections in the central portion forming the fixed teeth, the movable teeth are located in the spaces between the fixed teeth. All the teeth being formed in a streamlined shape ending with a wedge of the cross-section angle defined as 360/n, n is the number of movable teeth. For engagement between the movable teeth and the drive disc for transmission of motion, a counter plate with notches corresponding to the Archimedes spiral parameters on the drive disc is installed on the movable teeth.

Claims

1. A flow control valve, comprising; a housing having inlet and outlet fittings with passages; a regulating member having movable and fixed regulating teeth, the regulating member being provided with evenly spaced projections in a central portion forming the fixed teeth, and the movable teeth being located in spaces between the fixed teeth, the movable teeth having a streamlined shape ending with a wedge, the wedge having a cross-section angle defined as 360/n, wherein n is a number of movable teeth; a drive having a drive disc in which a lateral surface of the drive disc is provided with an Archimedes spiral; and a counter plate, installed on the movable teeth, having notches engaging the Archimedes spiral, such that as the drive disc is rotated, engagement between the Archimedes spiral of the disc drive with the counter plate of the movable teeth provides transmission of linear motion of the movable teeth to move the wedges on the movable teeth towards and away from one another.

2. The flow control valve of claim 1, wherein the lateral surface of the movable teeth are provided with self-sealing inserts.

3. The flow control valve of claim 1, wherein the drive is an electric drive.

4. The flow control valve of claim 1, wherein the drive is a pneumatic drive.

5. The flow control valve of claim 1, wherein the housing is composite.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1 of the drawings appended shows a general view of a flow control valve as claimed;

(2) FIG. 2 is a cross-section view of the same;

(3) FIG. 3 is a left-side cross-section view of a flow control valve with four pairs of teeth;

(4) FIG. 4 is a left-side cross-section view of a flow control valve with three pairs of teeth, the flow direction shown with arrows;

(5) FIG. 5 is a section A-A view of FIG. 1 showing a flow control valve with six pairs of teeth;

(6) FIG. 6 is a movable tooth of a flow control valve.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

(7) The flow control valve comprises a composite housing consisting of an upper part 1 and a lower part 2 mounted on a support 3. The upper part 1 of the housing comprises a manual drive with a drive wheel 4, a reducer 5 with gears 6, and a drive disc 7 with Archimedes spiral on its lateral surface. Rollers 8 serve to keep the disc 7 from tilting.

(8) The housing comprises a regulating member 9 with inlet and outlet fittings of the same diameter and evenly spaced projections in the central part forming fixed teeth 10 and movable teeth 11 are placed in between the protrusions, with all the teeth being formed in a streamlined shape ending with a wedge of the cross-section angle defined as 360/n, where n is the number of movable teeth, and to ensure the engagement with the disc the movable teeth are provided with a counter plate 12 with notches corresponding to the Archimedes spiral parameters on the drive disc 7. For stabilizing the movement of the disc 7 guide bushings 13 are provided.

(9) The valve operation is disclosed as follows.

(10) When the drive wheel 4 is put in rotation (when an electric drive according to claim 2 or a pneumatic drive according to claim 3 is turned on), the rotation is transferred to the gears 6 through which the movement is transmitted to the disc 7 engaged with the movable teeth 11 through the counter plate 12. Due to the rotary force applied the movable teeth 11 move along the legs of the fixed teeth 10 symmetrical thereto, moving inboard or outboard, whereby the passage in the transverse plane is closed or opened in a decreasing or increasing multipoint star configuration. Thus, the principle of the flow regulator is the symmetrical movement of the teeth 11 from the periphery to the centre, overlapping the passage of the regulator.

(11) The regulator with 4 movable teeth (FIG. 3), (FIG. 6) operates similarly.

(12) The streamlined shape of all elements, as well as the absence of various additional structural elements, which are necessary in other types of regulators, ensures the optimum passage of the medium pumped in the pipeline through this regulator. Regulation takes place only due to changing the passage without disturbing the “pattern” of the medium flow. In addition, the device provides a next lower order level of gas or liquid flow dissipation in comparison to the other regulating devices.