US Patent Issued to B.L. SALES & MANAGEMENT on May 6 for "Float valve apparatus having metal-to-metal seals and method for using same" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,940, issued on May 6, was assigned to B.L. SALES & MANAGEMENT INC. (Lafayette, La.).

"Float valve apparatus having metal-to-metal seals and method for using same" was invented by Robert J. Lejeune (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A float valve assembly has a moveable dart member biased in a normally-closed position in a housing. A baffle strainer member can be operationally attached to the housing using mating thread in order to provide a metal-to-metal fluid pressure seal between the baffle strainer member and the housing. External threads on the baffle strainer member can also mate with internal threads in a central t...