Robertshaw Controls Company

Robert A Van Fossen

Werner R Bauer

A reversing valve construction having a housing provided with a movable valve member therein that is interconnected to a piston unit having opposed piston heads that define a main chamber of the housing therebetween. The housing has end portions respectively cooperating with the piston heads to define a pair of opposed control chambers therewith, the end portions respectively having valve seats leading to the control chambers in directions substantially transverse to the direction of movement of the piston unit in the housing. Each piston head has a flexible seal member secured between a front disc member and a backing plate of the respective piston head so that an integral peripheral skirt of that seal member is urged into sliding and sealing engagement with an internal peripheral surface of the housing by an annular resilient O-ring member carried by the respective piston head and radially engaging and urging its respective skirt radially outwardly into the sliding and sealing engagement. Such seal member for each piston head can be adapted to close a valve seat carried by a respective end of the housing.

Reversing valve construction and piston head assembly therefor and

A reversing valve construction having a housing provided with a movable valve member therein that is interconnected to a piston unit having opposed piston heads that define a main chamber of the housing therebetween. The housing has opposed ends respectively cooperating with the piston heads to define a pair of opposed control chambers therebetween, the ends respectively having valve seats leading to the control chambers. Each piston head has a flexible seal member secured between a front disc member and a backing plate of the respective piston head so that an integral peripheral skirt of that seal member is urged into sliding and sealing engagement with an internal peripheral surface of the housing by an annular resilient O-ring member carried by the respective piston head and radially engaging and urging its respective skirt radially outwardly into the sliding and sealing engagement. Such seal member for each piston head can be adapted to close a valve seat carried by a respective end of the housing.

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Richmond, VA, United States of America

Robert A Van Fossen