Fluid handling – Back flow prevention by vacuum breaking – Air vent in liquid flow line
Patent
1989-11-13
1990-12-18
Michalsky, Gerald A.
Fluid handling
Back flow prevention by vacuum breaking
Air vent in liquid flow line
137102, F16L 5507, E03C 110
Patent
active
049779206
ABSTRACT:
A pipe interrupter, which is particularly suitable for installation in a sanitary fitting, comprises in a housing a chamber, into which a water-supply passage, a water-discharge passage and a ventilation path open. Located in the chamber is a rolling membrane, which is fixed at the peripheral region. Normally, thus as long as there is no reduced pressure in the supply passage, the rolling membrane bears in the central region against the opening aperture of the ventilation path in the chamber, so that on the one hand no atmospheric air may enter and on the other hand no water may escape. However, if reduced pressure occurs in the pipe system, which is connected to the supply passage, then the rolling membrane overturns so that now on the opposite side of the central region it closes the opening point of the supply passage into the chamber. On the other side, a ventilation path to the chamber is exposed. This ventilation path continues by way of a through-flow opening in the edge region of the rolling membrane towards the discharge passage. In this way, water can no longer flow back into the supply passage and into the pipe system connected thereto; on the other hand, the water-ways following the chamber are ventilated.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2877789 (1959-03-01), Campbell
patent: 3084707 (1963-04-01), Frye
German Industry Standard DIN 3266, Part 1, Jul. 1986.
Hansa Metallwerke AG
Michalsky Gerald A.
Philpitt Fred
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