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Abstract

A gate valve comprising a valve housing with connection openings disposed in mutually opposite relationship on a first common axis, and also connection elements for the inlet and outlet of a fluid, a cap on the valve housing and a valve actuation means coupled to a sliding gate. It is provided therein that arranged in the valve housing are: a hollow cage having a first and a second end face of which the first end face has an insertion opening, further with two mutually oppositely disposed fixed side walls and two parallel mutually oppositely disposed free side walls which are formed by two separate side plates with through bores which in the installed condition are on a second common axis, the sliding gate which has a through-flow opening is introduced through the insertion opening of the cage and is guided sealingly in the cage and between the side plates and the side plates bear with their respective inward side in surface contact against the sliding gate, the sliding gate has two end positions so that in a first opened end position the through-flow opening of the sliding gate coincides completely with the diameter of the through bores of the side plates in the installed condition and in a second closed end position the through-flow opening of the sliding gate is completely outside the diameter of the through bores of the side plates.

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