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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2024
Fmc Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Jose Angel Garza, Spring, TX (US);
Roman Chirko, Tomball, TX (US);
Gabriel Tiviroli-Melchert, Missouri City, TX (US);
Joshua Duane Douglas, Pearland, TX (US);
Abstract
A gate valve includes a valve body having a gate cavity, a bonnet mounted to the valve body over the cavity, a valve stem movably positioned in an axial stem bore in the bonnet, a gate positioned in the cavity and connected to the valve stem, a downwardly directed first stop surface fixed in position relative to the valve stem, and an upwardly directed second stop surface fixed in position relative to the bonnet. In operation, when the gate is moved downward from the open position to the closed position, the first stop surface will engage the second stop surface and thereby prevent the bottom of the gate from contacting the bottom of the gate cavity.