S. J. PEET.

STEAM ENGINE VALVE.

No. 60,932.

Patented Jan: 1, "1867.

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SAMUEL J. Pnnr, or new YORK, N. Y.
IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM-ENGINE VALVES. '
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Speci?cation forming part of LettersPatent No. 60,932, dated January 1, 1867.

To all whom it may concern :

and in the inner side of the valve-plates are

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. 'PEET, of corresponding taper recesses g g, which re the city, county, and State of New York, have ceive a conical wedge, h, on the end of the
invented a new and useful improvement in

screw 0, as seen in Fig. l, which wedge is

Valves; and I do hereby declare that the fol shouldered on the upper side, so as to catch lowing is a full, clear, and exact description on a corresponding shoulder in the recesses g
thereof, which will enable others skilled in the g, and lift the valve-plates b I) together from art to make and use the same, reference being their seats 0 c in front of the steamways a a. had to the accompanying drawings, forming The valve-plates b b are made to lie close to part of this speci?cation, in which each other when the wedge h is raised, and to ' Figure l is a central longitudinal section of play back and forth freely between the valve my improved valve, taken in the plane of the seats 0 a; but when the wedge h presses line a: as, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a partial transverse. against the sides of the recesses g g in the section taken in the plane of the line 9 y, Fig. valve-plates it spreads them apart, and presses 1. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the inside of their faces tightly against the seats 0 c in such one of the double valve-plates. Fig. 4 is a manner that steam cannot pass by them either similar view of the corresponding valve-plate. through direct or back action. Fig. 5 is a detached outside view of the double It will be observed that with this. arrange valve-plates united as employed. ment of the valve-plates they bear upon the Similar letters of reference indicate like seats and are held rigidly, so that the resist parts. ' ance is positive against the pressure of steam This invention relates to an improvement in the ways, and thus close them perfectly in valves for:v steam, gas, compressed air, while the operating-wedge is forced into the heated air or caloric, water, or other fluids, bottom of the recesses in the valve-plates; where a faucet, gate, valve, or cock is used; and also that when the valve-plates are raised and consists in a pair of metal disks, ?tted in the cavity by the screw the steam or water in a box or shell to vclose against seats on ways are fully open directly in line with each their opposite sides by being spread apart other for the free passage of steam or water. with a conical wedge, or a straight wedge It will be observed that this valve is appli turning on a swivel screwed between the disks, cable alike to any valve for steam, gas, COlll or which may be operated on by a sliding pressed and heated air, water, or othen?uids, _~wedge or equivalent devices. where faucets, valves, gates, cocks, or steam

A represents the shell of the valve; B, the traps are used. _ cap, through which passes a screw, 0, all 1 do not limit myself to application, so long which parts are constructed, in the ordinary as plates and wedges constructed on this prin way, of brass or any other suitable metal. ciple are employed to open and close valves. The steam or water ways are a a, passing in Having thus described my invention, what a line through the shell at right angles to the I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let screw G, with ?at seats 0 c on the, inside of ters Patent, is each. In a cavity in the shell A, between the . The pair of valve-plates b b, in combination
valve-seats c 0, two ?at valve plates or disks, 1) b, are placed, so as to. be opposite to the steamways a a when operating to close them, and resting in the middle on a projection, d,
with the conical wedge h on the screw 0, or

its equivalent, arranged and operating sub

stantially as and for the purpose herein de

in the bottom of- the cavity aforesaid, by

which recesses shall be formed on each side,

scribed.
rllhe above speci?cation of my invention

and theedges of the valve-plates shall not strike and become battered when they are forced into place. 'The valve-plates b b are
?tted as male and female to each other on

signed by me this 23d day of November, 1866.

SAMUEL J. PEET.
Witnesses :

dowel-pins e e, as shown in Figs. 8, 4, and 5 5

WM. F. MCNAMARA,
ALEX. F. ROBERTS.