Series 80-TPXL Knife Gate Valves
Why should you consider Townley Series 80-TPXL Knife Gate Valves?
- Heavy duty cast ductile-iron body and yoke designed to resist deflection line loads and internal pressure
- Direct bolt-in replacement for slurry type valves with wide face to face
- Non-purging bottom, results in clean safe workspace especially when mildly corrosive media is handled
- A thick one piece bonded-in Towniprene® urethane liner precisely molded to provide a bi-directional seal across the blade and compression seal at the apex of the blade during closure
- Designed with all the features of our best- selling 80-TP Knife Gate Valve
- Bottom of the Towniprene® seat is flush eliminating potential for trapped solids
- Pressures up to 150 PSI
- Easily converted from standard handwheel operator to air, hydraulic, electric and bevel gear operators with positioners, limit switches and lockouts as required
- Isolated brass stem bushing resists corrosion and assures smooth actuation
- TLSP Teflon lubricated synthetic packing provides positive gland sealing during operation
- Full port ID for unrestricted media flow
- Corrosion resistant stainless steel stem and blade for years of unsurpassed service
- Blade edge precisely machined with radius matching the molded radius in Towniprene® seat
- New space-age TSF-2R blade treatment to repel bonding of slurry to blade and assuring unrestricted blade movement
- Molded Towniprene® extends to both flange faces to provide positive seal with mating piping