Three-way ball valves have an L- or T-shaped hole through the middle steel ball
[Solo los Usuarios Registrados pueden ver los LinksRegistrate Aqui!] . The different combinations of flow are shown in the picture.Multi-port ball valves with 4 ways, or more, are also commercially available, the inlet way often being orthogonal to the plane of the outlets. For special applications, such as driving air-powered motors from forward to reverse, the operation is performed by rotating a single lever 4-way ball valve. The 4-way valve has two L-shaped ports in the ball that do not interconnect, sometimes referred to as an "×" port.