Valve and sealing structure therefor

摘要

A valve is generally elongated in shape and is inserted through an O-ring and amounting hole formed through a plate-shaped member. The valve includes a thread formed on an outer circumferential face of the valve so that a generally annular fitting is engaged therewith, an outer protruding wall protruding from the outer circumferential face of the valve to hold a circumferential edge of the mounting hole in cooperation with the fitting, a tapered portion formed in the outer protruding wall so as to be tapered toward the fitting and so as to abut against a part of the circumferential edge of the mounting hole, and a sealing portion disposed at a side farther away from the plate-shaped member than a portion of the protruding wall abutting against said circumferential edge part of the mounting hole so that each of the plate-shaped member and the sealing portion presses the O-ring against the other.