Claims
- 1. In a valve for controlling the flow of a fluid having a valve body with a fluid passageway therein terminating in an outlet, a valve seat in the fluid passageway, a valve needle biased to seat on the valve seat to close the passageway, a backup-washer between the valve seat and the outlet, the improvement comprising:
- a thin disk member having at least two orifices therein, the length/diameter ratio of each of said orifices is less than 0.25 and the axises of said orifices intersecting in the valve opposite the outlet for directing a number of flow streams of fluid equal to the number of orifices in a diverging pattern from the outlet of said valve said disk member positioned between the valve seat and the backup-washer and operable to control the flow rate of the fluid from the valve body.
- 2. In a valve according to claim 1 wherein said axises of said orifices intersecting in the valve at an included angle of less than 30.degree..
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 137,497 filed Dec. 23, 1987 now Pat. No. 4,854,024, dated Aug. 8, 1989, which is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. Ser. No. 937,658 entitled "Manufacturing Process for Manufacturing Thin Edge Orifice Disks for Fuel Injectors" filed on Dec. 4, 1986 by Grieb et al. which is now abandoned.
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