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FIIG:  A23900

Entry Date:  May-25-1990

Concept:  

Status:  C

Applicability:  A

Type:  2

Definition:  INC 35377 CANCELLED/REPLACED BY INC 45485, FIIG A501T0, ON 090913. For USA INC 35377 Canceled Replaced By VALVE, ROTARY, SELECTOR: INC 45485, FIIG A501T. A manually or power operated valve having three or more ports and two or more flow patterns. Each flow pattern is determined by the seating and/or unseating of a poppet(s), disk(s), or spool accomplished by position change of a rotating cam or a spring loaded ball detent in relation to the poppet(s), disk(s) or spool. The item may have an off (no flow) position. (An off (no flow) position is not a flow pattern.) A powered valve may have manual override. (May be in line or cartridge (manifold) design.) Excludes: VALVE, PLUG. See also VALVE, LINEAR, DIRECTIONAL CONTROL.

Basic INC:  70646

Basic Name:  VALVE

Description:  1. A mechanism designed to control the flow of liquids or gases either within a closed system such as a pipeline or between the atmosphere and a closed system. It may be manually and/or power operated, actuated by predetermined pressure and/or temperature, or a pressure and/or temperature differential. Excludes: FAUCET (as modified); COCK (as modified); and THERMOSTAT (as modified).