Michael Slafter

US Patent:

8448657, May 28, 2013

Filed:

Apr 26, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/767063

Inventors:

Michael Edwin Slafter - Ivins UT, US
Randal Edward Zugnoni - Dublin CA, US

Assignee:

Red Mountain Engineering LLC - St. George UT

International Classification:

F17D 3/00

US Classification:

137 1, 13762415, 13762411, 1376242, 239 70

Abstract:

A passive cycle skipping valve comprising a pawl and a wheel comprising a first plurality of pins, wherein a distal end of the pawl is configured to engage any of the first plurality of pins where when the second pin is separated from the first pin by at least a threshold pin separation distance, the valve opens and when the second pin is not separated from the first pin by at least the threshold pin separation distance, the valve does not open.