Patent 11125340 was granted and assigned to Cactus Wellhead, Llc on September, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A gate valve and gate member for a gate valve, which may be used for hydrocarbon well fracturing operations with a fracturing fluid, or “frac fluid”, includes a seat, having a seat end face which is in sliding contact with a gate member that has a sealing face surface with at least one recess formed in the sealing face surface of the gate member.