US 11,815,186 B2
Valve assembly and method of producing the same
Eddy Cruiming, Hoogezand (NL)
Assigned to Schoeller Allibert GmbH, Schwerin (DE)
Appl. No. 17/268,226
Filed by Schoeller Allibert GmbH, Schwerin (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 14, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/071834
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/035535, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18188958 (EP), filed on Aug. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0317918 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. F16K 1/226 (2006.01); F16K 5/06 (2006.01); B65D 77/06 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 1/2261 (2013.01) [B65D 77/061 (2013.01); B65D 77/067 (2013.01); F16K 5/0684 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A valve assembly comprising:
a stationary valve body; and
a valve member that is movable relative to the valve body at least from a closed position, in which the valve member cooperates with a valve seat to completely obstruct a fluid path formed through the valve body, to an open position, in which fluid flow through the fluid path is enabled,
the valve member comprising a disc- or ball-shaped rigid component that is overmolded with a flexible component and that at least partially encompasses the rigid component in a circumferential direction to form a ring gasket section,
the valve member being pivotally mounted inside the valve body,
the rigid component comprising:
a connecting portion which does not protrude over a circular silhouette of the rigid component for connecting a shaft of a handle or actuator to the rigid component; and
an axle portion located diametrically opposed to the connecting portion,
the valve body comprising an axle receiving portion thereby forming a rotational bearing with the axle portion, and
the ring gasket section of the flexible component comprising:
a first opening through which the shaft or the connecting portion is inserted; and
a second opening through which the axle portion or the axle receiving portion is inserted.