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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
May. 20, 2020
Waterworks Technology Development Organization Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Hiroyuki Bekki, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a highly durable and compact gate valve and a method of installing the gate valve. The gate valve includes a valve cageaccommodating a valve body and a sealing bandcovering between a pair of fluid pipes W and the valve cageunder a sealed state. The valve cageincludes a pair of protruding tubular portionB protruding in a pipe axis direction X from a valve cage body. The sealing bandincludes a pair of main body portions Bcovering the respective fluid pipes W, Wand the protruding tubular portionsB under a sealed state and a connecting portion Bconnecting the pair of main body portions Band formed unitarily therewith and is constituted of a plurality of split members Ba split in a circumferential direction of the fluid pipes W.