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Publication: OEM Off-Highway
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Cartridge valves.(Department)

Article Excerpt
Cartridge valves

by Chad Elmore and Michelle EauClaire

Part six of OEM Off-Highway's trip through the mobile hydraulic circuit.

Command Controls founder Connie Kosarzecki remembers when the cartridge valve was introduced in the 1950s. At the time, two companies were making special-purpose hydraulic cartridge valves.

"Each cartridge valve was designed to perform a specific function, and then a valve cavity was designed to encompass the valve," says James Incledon, Jr., marketing manager, Command Controls Corp., Elgin, IL. "Most of the valves during that time were designed with many differing cavities."

In the late 1960s and 1970s, a new approach to cartridge valve design emerged in which the cavities were designed on the existing technologies of the SAE straight thread O-ring port designs, allowing a great...

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