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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:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
David C Dorste, Washington, MO (US);
Robert S Ens, St. Louis, MO (US);
Joseph H Heffner, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Assignee:
Sporlan Valve Company, Washington, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62528 ; 137540 ; 1375651 ;
Abstract
This refrigerant distributor (20) is used in a refrigeration system (10) for delivering refrigerant from a thermostatic expansion valve (18) to a multi-circuit evaporator (22). The distributor (20) includes a body (30) having an inlet (32) providing a nozzle (40), an outlet (34) providing a plurality of discharge passages (52) and a head space (48) disposed between the nozzle (40) and the discharge passages (52). A member (56) is movable in the head space (48) to vary the flow from the nozzle passage (40) into the discharge passages (52) to suit normal load and pulldown load.