US 12,270,488 B2
Valve
Jens Burmester, Grambek (DE); Jörg Pieplow, Rondeshagen (DE); Kai Volster, Wismar (DE); Alexander Enns, Schwarzenbek (DE); and Nils Waldemann, Nostorf (DE)
Assigned to GEA Tuchenhagen GmbH, Büchen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/909,533
Filed by GEA Tuchenhagen GmbH, Büchen (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 23, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/054405
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/180458, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 001 485.2 (DE), filed on Mar. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0112237 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. F16K 35/02 (2006.01); F16K 1/22 (2006.01); F16K 31/60 (2006.01); F16K 35/06 (2006.01); F16K 35/10 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 35/025 (2013.01) [F16K 1/221 (2013.01); F16K 31/602 (2013.01); F16K 35/027 (2013.01); F16K 35/06 (2013.01); F16K 35/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A valve, comprising:
a closing member that can be brought from a closed position into an open position by a rotational movement about an axis of rotation, wherein the axis of rotation is transverse to a through-flow direction;
a shaft connected to the closing member, wherein the shaft comprises a shaft end;
a valve housing;
an adjusting device, wherein the adjusting device has an adjusting device housing and comprises a receptacle in which the shaft end can be received;
a shaft portion including a passage that can be made congruent with housing-side openings, wherein the passage and the housing-side openings can be penetrated by a securing body, and a connection between the shaft and the shaft portion is secured against release when the passage and the housing-side openings are congruent;
an intermediate housing having an intermediate shaft that is rotatably received therein, wherein the intermediate shaft is connected to the shaft and is received in the receptacle, the intermediate shaft comprises the shaft portion with the passage, and the housing-side openings are formed in the intermediate housing; and
a screw that penetrates an opening of the intermediate shaft and engages with the shaft, wherein the screw is covered by the intermediate housing for securing against release, and wherein an interior surface of the intermediate housing is immediately adjacent to an end face of the screw when the securing body penetrates the passage in the intermediate shaft and the housing-side openings in the intermediate housing.