The gate valve is a gate valve with opening and closing parts. The movement direction of the gate valve is perpendicular to the fluid direction. The gate valve can only be fully opened and fully closed, not adjusted and throttled. The gate valve is sealed by the contact between the valve seat and the gate. Usually, the sealing surface will be overlaid with metal materials to increase the wear resistance, such as overlaying 1Cr13, stl6, stainless steel, etc. The gate valve has rigid gate valve and elastic gate valve. According to different gate valves, the gate valve is divided into rigid gate valve and elastic gate valve.

閘閥的啟閉件是閘板，閘板的運動方向與流體方向相垂直，閘閥只能作全開和全關，不能作調節和節流。閘板有兩個密封面，較常用的模式閘板閥的兩個密封面形成楔形、楔形角隨閥門參數而異，通常為5°，介質溫度不高時為2°52'。

The opening and closing part of the gate valve is the gate, and the movement direction of the gate is perpendicular to the fluid direction. The gate valve can only be fully opened and closed, not adjusted and throttled. The ram has two sealing surfaces. In the more common mode, the two sealing surfaces of the ram valve form a wedge, and the wedge angle varies with the valve parameters, usually 5 °, and 2 ° 52 'when the medium temperature is not high.

楔式閘閥的閘板可以做成一個整體，叫做剛性閘板；也可以做成能產生微量變形的閘板，以改善其工藝性，彌補密封面角度在加工過程中產生的偏差，這種閘板叫做彈性閘板。

The gate of wedge gate valve can be made into a whole, which is called rigid gate valve; It can also be made into a ram that can produce slight deformation to improve its manufacturability and make up for the deviation of the angle of the sealing surface in the processing process. This kind of ram is called elastic ram.

閘閥關閉時，密封面可以只依靠介質壓力來密封，即依靠介質壓力將閘板的密封面壓向另一側的閥座來保證密封面的密封，這就是自密封。大部分閘閥是采用強制密封的，即閥門關閉時，要依靠外力強行將閘板壓向閥座，以保證密封面的密封性。

When the gate valve is closed, the sealing surface can be sealed only by the medium pressure, that is, the sealing surface of the gate valve can be pressed to the valve seat on the other side by the medium pressure to ensure the sealing of the sealing surface, which is self sealing. Most gate valves are forced sealed, that is, when the valve is closed, the gate shall be forced to the valve seat by external force to ensure the tightness of the sealing surface.

閘閥的閘板隨閥桿一起作直線運動的，叫升降桿閘閥，亦叫明桿閘閥。通常在升降桿上有梯形螺紋，通過閥門頂端的螺母以及閥體上的導槽，將旋轉運動變為直線運動，也就是將操作轉矩變為操作推力。開啟閥門時，當閘板提升高度等于閥門通徑的1：1倍時，流體的通道暢通，但在運行時，此位置是無法監視的。

The gate of the gate valve moves in a straight line with the valve stem, which is also called rising stem gate valve. Generally, there are trapezoidal threads on the lifting rod. Through the nut at the top of the valve and the guide groove on the valve body, the rotary motion is changed into linear motion, that is, the operating torque is changed into operating thrust. When the valve is opened, when the lifting height of the ram is equal to 1:1 times the valve diameter, the fluid channel is unblocked, but this position cannot be monitored during operation.

實際使用時，是以閥桿的頂點作為標志，即開不動的位置，作為它的全開位置。為考慮溫度變化出現鎖死現象，通常在開到頂點位置上，再倒回1/2－1圈，作為全開閥門的位置。因此，閥門的全開位置，按閘板的位置即行程來確定。有的閘閥，閥桿螺母設在閘板上，手輪轉動帶動閥桿轉動，而使閘板提升，這種閥門叫做旋轉桿閘閥，或叫暗桿閘閥。

In actual use, the vertex of the valve stem is used as the mark, that is, the position that cannot be opened is used as its fully open position. In order to consider the locking phenomenon caused by temperature change, it is usually opened to the peak position and then turned back 1 / 2-1 turn as the position of fully open valve. Therefore, the fully open position of the valve is determined according to the position of the ram, that is, the travel. For some gate valves, the valve stem nut is set on the ram, and the rotation of the hand wheel drives the valve stem to rotate and lift the ram. This kind of valve is called rotary rod gate valve or Non rising rod gate valve.