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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1999
Alfons Knapp, D-7950 Biberach/Riss, DE;
Other;
Abstract
A pair of hard material plates form the control members for a sequential type mixing valve, the plates perform, during the control stroke, only a relative rotation around a rotation center, the fixed plate has two passage openings and the movable plate has at least one passage opening, the whole of a first portion of the fixed plate is located on one side of a first straight line passing through the rotation center is lacking in openings, both openings of the fixed plate occupy in their whole just less of a second portion of the fixed plate, lying with respect to the first straight line opposite the first portion of the fixed plate, both openings of the fixed plate are mutually separated by a rib having, at least in part, the minimum width needed for ensuring the seal, the whole of a first portion of the movable plate which is located on one side of a second straight line passing through the rotation center is lacking in openings, and the passage openings of the movable plate occupy in their whole only a part of a second portion of the movable plate, lying with respect to the second straight line opposite the first portion of the movable plate.