US 11,813,647 B2
Multiport valve
Michael Saier, Freiburg/Kappel (DE); and Lothar Weber, Rheinbach (DE)
Assigned to Michael Saier, Freiburg/Kappel (DE); and Beatrice Saier, Freiburg/Kappel (DE)
Filed by Michael Saier, Freiburg/Kappel (DE); and Lothar Weber, Rheinbach (DE)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/829,918.
Application 17/829,918 is a division of application No. 16/923,419, filed on Jul. 8, 2020, granted, now 11,389,843.
Application 16/923,419 is a division of application No. 14/359,384, filed on Oct. 27, 2014, granted, now 10,780,470.
Prior Publication US 2022/0288656 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. B08B 9/032 (2006.01); F16K 11/074 (2006.01); F16K 11/085 (2006.01)
CPC B08B 9/0322 (2013.01) [F16K 11/074 (2013.01); F16K 11/0743 (2013.01); F16K 11/085 (2013.01); Y10T 137/0419 (2015.04); Y10T 137/4259 (2015.04); Y10T 137/86501 (2015.04)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a valve having a plurality of material inlet ports, a flushing inlet port, and an outlet port;
respective supplies of at last two different liquid materials, the supplies each being connected to a respective one of the material inlet ports of the valve;
a supply of flushing medium connected to the flushing inlet port;
an inlet port disk in the valve having a plurality of disk inlet ports and a flushing disk inlet port;
a movable valve body in the valve, having a passage, and shiftable between a plurality of positions in each of which a respective one of the inlet ports of the valve is connected to the outlet port via the passage, the inlet port disk and the movable valve body interfacing without interposition of a seal; and
control means for moving the valve body between the positions such that, after each time the valve body is in a position connecting one of the material inlet ports to the outlet port and material has passed through the passage, the valve body is moved into a position connecting the passage with the flushing inlet port for flushing out the passage.