US 12,352,370 B2
Valve with stepped bushing design
Chris Phillips, Riverside, CA (US)
Assigned to YARDNEY WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC., Riverside, CA (US)
Filed by YARDNEY WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC., Riverside, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/532,520.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/430,842, filed on Dec. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0191814 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. F16K 41/02 (2006.01); F16K 1/46 (2006.01); F16K 11/044 (2006.01); F16K 31/126 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 41/02 (2013.01) [F16K 1/46 (2013.01); F16K 11/044 (2013.01); F16K 31/126 (2013.01); Y10T 137/86879 (2015.04); Y10T 137/87788 (2015.04)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A valve for a filtering system, said valve comprising:
a valve body having a fluid inlet opening, a vessel opening, and a backwash opening;
a movable valve seal housed within the valve body;
an actuator configured to move the valve seal to selectively block a fluid communication from the vessel opening from one of the fluid inlet opening and backwash opening;
a bushing housed within the valve body, wherein the bushing includes a main bushing body and a bushing lip;
wherein the actuator comprises a valve shaft extending from an actuator can, through the bushing, and to the valve body, and wherein the valve shaft is attached to the movable valve seal;
a first seal located between the bushing lip and the valve body;
a second seal located between the main bushing body and the valve body; and
wherein the first and second seal is configured to be compressed in an axial direction from a force enacted by the actuator.