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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2020
Watts Regulator Co., North Andover, MA (US);
Peter J. Bertagna, Moultonborough, NH (US);
Ian D. Baynes, Merrimac, MA (US);
Watts Regulator Co., North Andover, MA (US);
Abstract
A valve assembly having a bolt with a through hole for a security wire includes at least one valve of the valve assembly mechanically coupled to a pipe or to a section of another component of the valve assembly by a coupling or by a pair of mating flanges. At least one hollow bolt is bolted through a closing bolt hole of the coupling or a joining bolt hole of the pair of mating flanges. The at least one hollow bolt accepts a safety wire run completely through the hollow bolt in a longitudinal direction of the hollow bolt and extending completely through the closing bolt hole of the coupling or the joining bolt hole of the pair of mating flanges.