The Lee Company

Leighton Lee, Iii

Stephen E Anderson

Jeffrey C Dickey

John L Grillo

Fredrick J Pecor

Loren Bonsack

A device for providing a sealed intersection between flow passages within a housing comprises an expansion sleeve with a cylindrical outer surface and an axially tapered inner surface for receiving a frusto-conical inner member of greater average diameter and the expansion sleeve is radially expanded in place after insertion into the installation bore, by the forcible insertion therein of the inner member. No interference occurs between the sleeve and the installation bore until after the sleeve is in place in the bore. The outer surface of the sleeve is reduced or not as many be desired to provide fluid communication among the flow passages. Two embodiments differ in that one seals between axially separated ports while the other seals between angularly separated ports.

Expansion sealing device

A relief valve comprises a stationary valve seat and a poppet member which has a valve surface sealingly engageable with the stationary valve seat. The poppet member has an axially extending wall in the vicinity of the valve surface. When the poppet valve is displaced from the stationary valve seat, the low pressure which is exerted against the poppet valve in the vicinity of the poppet valve surface resulting from fluid flowing between the stationary valve seat and the poppet valve surface is generally substantially exerted in a radial direction against the axial wall to thereby prevent reseating of the poppet member at the initial opening conditions for the relief valve.

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Old Saybrook, CT, United States of America

Leighton Lee, Iii