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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
SMC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K / ; F15B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
251324 ; 13762569 ; 277552 ; 277561 ; 277586 ;
Abstract
A packing mounting groove formed in a spool has a wider portion of a large groove width and a narrower portion of a small groove width, and a packing that is mounted in the packing mounting groove has a first portion that fits in the wider portion and a second portion that fits in the narrower portion. A plurality of fixing protrusions formed concentrically on both sides of the second portion are pressure-contacted with a groove wall of the narrower portion to fixedly mount the packing in the mounting groove.