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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2012
Fisher Controls International Llc, Marshalltown, IA (US);
Tung K. Nguyen, McKinney, TX (US);
Guillaume Fournel, Rambouillet, FR;
Roman Alexandru-Vlad, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT REGULATOR TECHNOLOGIES, INC., McKinney, TX (US);
Abstract
A slam-shut device includes an inlet, an outlet, a valve seat, and defines a flow path. A valve disc is shiftable between an open position and a closed position, and reset pin responsive to an actuator is coupled to the valve disc and shifts between an untripped position and a tripped position. A cylindrical cage is mounted within the valve body and is disposed in the flow path, and includes a plurality of flow apertures slidably receives the valve disc. The cage includes a first end adjacent the valve seat and a second end away from the valve seat, and the cage forms a cylindrical recess disposed adjacent the second end of the cage and spaced from the flow apertures.