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Abstract

The invention relates to a fire protection sprinkler head having a base constructed for connection to a source of fire retardant fluid under pressure, a throat in the base through which fire retardant fluid can flow, a valve seat defined by the base about the periphery of the throat, and a resiliently flexible valve disk disposed across the throat and impressed upon the valve seat in sealing engagement. The valve seat has an arcuate profile segment, with a protuberant ridge disposed about the periphery of the throat and adjacent thereto. The ridge, in the region of its crest, defines a valve seat surface. The valve seat further has a recessed surface segment disposed radially outwardly of the throat, and divergent from a plane of the crest of the protuberant ridge. The valve disk has a sealing surface which is impressed upon the valve seat surface in the region of the crest of the protuberant ridge in sealing engagement over an annular region inward of the peripheral edge of the valve disk and in a manner to minimize the radial width of the valve seat surface, to thereby improve valve seat performance in resistance to leakage.

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First Claim