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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2010
Steve Zillig, Clarence, NY (US);
Robert Howard Stoll, Middleport, NY (US);
Joseph Anthony Giarrizzo, Amherst, NY (US);
Michael Jonas, Clarence, NY (US);
Arthur J. Murray, Medina, NY (US);
Steve Zillig, Clarence, NY (US);
Robert Howard Stoll, Middleport, NY (US);
Joseph Anthony Giarrizzo, Amherst, NY (US);
Michael Jonas, Clarence, NY (US);
Arthur J. Murray, Medina, NY (US);
Jiffy-Tite Company, Inc., Lancaster, NY (US);
Abstract
A cooler bypass valve apparatus installed the apparatus between a heat exchanger and conduits coupled to a device carrying fluid that needs to be cooled. A housing includes an inlet port and first and second outlet ports. At least one thermal actuator and at least one valve are mounted in a fluid flow passageway in the housing and operative in response to the fluid temperature to move the at least one valve between operative positions opening and closing fluid flow from the inlet port through the first and second outlet ports between a heat exchanger bypass loop and a heat exchanger cooling loop. In another aspect, two thermal actuators control a separate valve associated with the first and second outlets between open and closed positions enabling fluid flow from the inlet port exclusively through one of the first and second outlet ports or in a combined partial flow through both of the first and second outlet ports.