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Article: Italian Inventor Develops Spring-Loaded Pressure Relief Valve
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 27, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27 -- Carlo Cavagna of Ponte S. Marco, Italy, has developed a spring-loaded pressure relief valve for containers of pressurized fluids.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "spring-loaded pressure relief valve, particularly for containers of pressurized fluids, comprising a valve body that is associable with a container and forms a discharge port that is controlled by a main piston; an auxiliary valve is further provided, which controls a venting port and drives the intervention of the main piston, such main piston being accommodated in a cavity that is formed in the valve body and is open in an axial direction on the opposite ...