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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1999
George Nicholas Felton, Gillingham, GB;
Lucas Industries plc, , GB;
Abstract
A distributor arrangement is disclosed which comprises a distributor member rotatable within a bore formed in a sleeve, the sleeve being provided with a supply port through which fuel under high pressure can be supplied to the distributor member, in use, and a plurality of delivery ports, the distributor member being provided with a delivery passage registrable with the delivery ports, in turn, upon rotation of the distributor member whereby fuel under pressure supplied through the supply port flows to a selected one of the delivery ports, in use, the distributor arrangement further comprising a porting arrangement whereby, when the distributor member occupies a position in which the delivery passage is not registered with any of the delivery ports, cooling fluid is able to flow through the delivery passage.