Gate Valve Switch

Gate valve with tamper switch.

Gate valve switch. Gate valve check valve ball valve butterfly valve safety valve globe valve plug valve etc. A gate valve also known as a sluice valve is a valve that opens by lifting a barrier gate out of the path of the fluid gate valves require very little space along the pipe axis and hardly restrict the flow of fluid when the gate is fully opened. Carbon steel gate valves fnpt. Their mechanism usually involves a round knob that when turned lowers or raises an internal gate or wedge to control the water flow rate.

The closure element of a gate valve is a replaceable disk. A post indicator valve s gate is located underground at the bottom of the stem or post in the image below. The gate faces can be parallel but are most commonly wedge shaped in order to be able to apply pressure on the sealing surface. These rugged gate valves can be used fully open or fully closed in high pressure applications.

A fully closed gate valve provides good sealing due to the 360 disk to seal ring contact surface. The rising stem valve also includes at least one locator groove formed around the non threaded portion of the stem at a location selected such that when the gate is in a desired position the follower of the limit switch biased by the bias spring drops into the groove moving the actuator arm to an inward position at which the radius washer. Gate valve with tamper switch construction is as follows structure main part materials size we company have other valves. Gate valves also called sluice valves are more likely to be found in older houses.

The tamper switch is on the lookout for a closing butterfly valve and signals the control panel when it happens. To open the valve the disk is completely removed from the stream and offers virtually no resistance. Therefore there is little pressure drop across the open gate valve.