| | Hydraulic piston-valve-type control valve - Patent 4739797 |
 | | Both control valves are so-called continuous or step slide valves that provide a fine controllability of the valve by providing the control edges with triangular recesses which, relative to the cross section of the control surfaces, generally have the three-dimensional shape of a half cone. |
 | | With such piston geometries, during the opening stroke or movement of the valve piston, the control edges of the latter, beginning from the tip of the triangular recess, progressively release the control spaces or chambers disposed in the housing annularly about the piston. |
 | | In the central or neutral position of the piston 12 in the housing 11, as effected by the centering springs 13, the connecting bores 27 and 28 are open to the tank and the pump, since the associated control spaces 23 communicate with the pertaining recesses 17 of the piston 12. |
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