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Vat Holding Ag

Markus Nesensohn

Thomas Blecha

Barbara Laemmer

Christoph Auerswald

Zoltan Szalmassy

Stefan Koller

A valve having a closure member which is pressed against a valve seat in a closed position and closes an opening, and having a first valve drive for moving the closure member along a first movement path back and/or forth between a maximum open position and an intermediate position, and having a second valve drive for moving the closure member along a second movement path back and/or forth between the intermediate position and the closed position. The first movement path and the second movement path are arranged in an angled manner with respect to one another. The valve additionally includes at least one locking device with at least one locking body which interacts with at least one inclined surface and/or comprises at least one inclined surface, wherein the locking body is movable relative to the closure member along a third movement path between a locking position and a releasing position.

Valve, in particular a vacuum valve

Retroreflector

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Sulz, Austria

Markus Nesensohn