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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1994
Spiros G Raftis, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Red Valve Company, Inc., Carnegie, PA (US);
Abstract
An inversion-resistant check valve or tide gate valve which comprises a sleeve bounding in a longitudinally-extending flow-through passage for fluids. The sleeve has an upstream fluid inlet end region mountable on a discharge end of a conduit which is elongated along a longitudinal axis of symmetry. The sleeve also has a downstream fluid outlet end region comprised of two or more lips which are opposed to each other and symmetrically arranged relative to the axis, wherein the lips extend a defined length along the axis, the defined length being within the range of about 1:1.5 to 1:9 times the diameter of the conduit.
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