A quick release valve comprising a main casting (1) and a closure member (5, 27, 45) crimped on after insertion of a rubber valve member (9, 30, 48) and an `O` ring seal (13, 39, 49).

A quick release valve for a vehicle fluid pressure braking system includes a housing having inlet, exhaust and delivery ports. A bead circumscribes the inlet port to provide a valve seating area for a flexible diaphragm within the valve housing, and the exhaust port includes a projecting portion which preloads the flexible diaphragm into engagement with the bead circumscribing the inlet port. Accordingly, pressure variations between the ports cannot force the flexible diaphragm to vibrate to create an undesirable honking noise. Furthermore, the circumferentially extending bead assures a pressure-tight seal with the flexible diaphragm, and also establishes a predetermined sealing area for the diaphragm, thereby reducing valve hysteresis by preventing sealing of the diaphragm at varying areas on the housing.

A resuscitation valve uses a pair of thin membrane valve elements that are spaced apart about an exhaust passage to provide increased reliability and simplify construction and fabrication. The resuscitation valve is of the nonrebreathing type and includes a valve housing that defines a chamber and an inlet port and patient port in communication therewith. The housing also defines an exhaust port. A center body is positioned in the housing and has a hollow interior communicating the chamber with the exhaust port. First, second, and third valve seats are located between the exhaust port and the center body, the inlet port and the chamber, and at one end of the center body, respectively. The pair of resilient membranes act as valve elements and one membrane closes the outlet port in response to negative pressure at the patient port by sealingly contacting the first valve seat; the second membrane closes the inlet port in response to pressure at the patient port that exceeds the pressure at the inlet port by sealingly contacting the second valve seat, and also closes the exhaust passage when positive pressure at the inlet port exceeds positive pressure inside the center body by sealingly contacting said third valve seat. A center body separates the valve elements and can be used to facilitate simple-snap together construction of the valve. The valve design is particularly suited for the fabrication of a disposable resuscitation valve.

A quick release valve for a vehicle braking system has an inlet port, an outlet port for connection to a brake actuator, and an exhaust port closed during operation of the actuator by a working area of a diaphragm. A support area of the diaphragm surrounding the area has peripheral indents with re-entrant edge portions. Reduction of the support area by formation of the indents lessens noise produced by the valve during exhausting after operation of the brake actuator.

A portable fluid pumping device includes a valve assembly having a pair of one-way umbrella valves controlling the flow of air to produce a positive pressure at one port and a negative pressure at another port. Each umbrella valve includes a valve stem having a neck received within the mounting opening, and an umbrella skirt integrally joined to the neck to overlie the valve opening. The umbrerlla skirt is relatively thin for its complete extent, and the juncture between the umbrella skirt and neck of the valve stem is of frusto-conical configuration increasing in diameter from the neck to the umbrella skirt.