Steam valve

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11644104-B2
Application number	US-202217591337-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 2, 2022
Priority date	Mar 18, 2021
Publication date	May 9, 2023
Grant date	May 9, 2023

Abstract

Staying of a drain on a cylinder attached to a lower side of a valve casing is suppressed, and occurrence of corrosion of the cylinder is suppressed.
A steam valve includes a valve casing, a valve disc disposed within the valve casing, a cylinder disposed on a lower side of the valve casing and having a piston rod extending upward, a valve stem vertically penetrating a lower portion of the valve casing and having one end coupled to the piston rod via a coupling and having another end coupled to the valve disc, a cover having a larger diameter than the piston rod and the coupling and configured to separate the piston rod and the coupling from each other by being interposed between the piston rod and the coupling, and a tubular skirt hanging down from a peripheral portion of the cover and surrounding a periphery of a head portion of the piston rod.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A steam valve comprising:
a valve casing;
a valve disc disposed within the valve casing;
a cylinder disposed on a lower side of the valve casing and having a piston rod extending upward;
a valve stem coupled to the piston rod, vertically penetrating a lower portion of the valve casing and having one end coupled to the piston rod via a coupling and having another end coupled to and attached to the valve disc, the piston rod being attached to the coupling;
a cover having a larger diameter than the piston rod and the coupling and configured to separate the piston rod and the coupling from each other by being interposed between the piston rod and the coupling; and
a tubular skirt hanging down from a peripheral portion of the cover such that the cover and the tubular skirt surround a periphery of a head portion of the piston rod.

2. The steam valve according to claim 1 , wherein
the cylinder is supported by the valve casing via a yoke,
the yoke includes a bottom plate to which the cylinder is attached, the bottom plate includes an aperture through which the piston rod is passed, and
the bottom plate includes a tubular fence disposed on an upper surface of the bottom plate, the tubular fence being attached to the bottom plate and rising so as to surround a periphery of the aperture, the aperture being located on an inner side of the tubular fence, and the tubular fence being positioned on an inner side of the tubular skirt.

3. The steam valve according to claim 1 , wherein
the cylinder is supported by the valve casing via a yoke,
the yoke includes a bottom plate to which the cylinder is attached, the bottom plate includes an aperture through which the piston rod is passed,
a ring-shaped slit is formed in an upper surface of the bottom plate of the yoke such that the ring-shaped slit surrounds a periphery of the aperture,
a lower end of the tubular skirt faces the upper surface of the bottom plate, and
the ring-shaped slit is disposed at a location of the upper surface of the bottom plate opposite to the lower end of the tubular skirt.

4. The steam valve according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a drain pan disposed on a lower portion of the yoke; and
a drainage configured to connect the slit and the drain pan to each other.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Nishimura Kenya
• Yamashita Atsushi

Classifications

• F16K27/02

  of lift valves (for reducing the flow resistance of screw-spindle lift-valves F16K1/06) · CPC title

• F16K31/56

  without stable intermediate position, e.g. with snap action · CPC title

• F16K1/00

  Lift valves {or globe valves}, i.e. cut-off apparatus with closure members having at least a component of their opening and closing motion perpendicular to the closing faces ({in combination with sliding valves F16K3/246, F16K3/267} ; diaphragm valves F16K7/00) · CPC title

• F05D2220/31

  in steam turbines · CPC title

• F01D17/00

  Regulating or controlling by varying flow (for reversing F01D1/30; by varying rotor-blade position F01D7/00; specially for starting F01D19/00; shutting-down F01D21/00; regulating or controlling in general G05 {; specially adapted for hand-held tools or the like F01D15/06}) · CPC title