Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Gas and water specific plumbing component making
Patent
1996-08-14
1999-05-25
Sewell, Paul T.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Gas and water specific plumbing component making
137318, 137 5, 29463, 29890124, 285197, B23P 1100, E03B 100
Patent
active
059060484
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a process for producing one or a plurality of valve-operated branch pieces for a pipe conducting a medium. The invention further proposes embodiments of the parts required for this purpose. In many technological fields one is confronted with the task of forming branch pieces for a main pipe conducting a medium, said branch pieces each diverting a certain amount of said medium from the main pipe, with a valve provided at the branching site controlling the amount to be diverted.
Examples of such may be the so-called heating circuit distributors in central heating systems, although the medium to be distributed thereby may also be oil or lubricant, one may consider pipe branches which become necessary in chemical process engineering. The range of applications is unlimited. The medium to be circulated may also be gaseous.
Just like the media to be diverted from a main pipe may be of very different nature, the present invention also comprises all kinds of materials from which the pipes and the branch pieces are made. These may be metallic pipes, iron pipes or pipes made of non-ferrous metals or they may also be reinforced or non-reinforced plastic pipes. Even the use of glass pipes may be considered.
Moreover, it is irrelevant for the purposes of the present invention whether the branch pieces are installed at a later stage in an already existing system, whether they are produced upon completion of a system in an assembling state or whether they are prefabricated branch pieces.
Various means are known for tap-boring pipes which will remain in operation during this process. German patent DE 42 39 573 A1 for example discloses a tap-boring device for pipes under pressure. This device will first serve as a hole gauge for a drilling tool which gauge may be clamped onto said pipe. This drilling tool is connected with a valve disk which will assume the function of the valve.
German utility model DE-GM 74 10 858 discloses a tap-boring pipe clip for pressurized air and water. Also in this case the drilling tool is provided with a sealing element. This prior art aims at providing a pipe in operation with a branch piece, with the drilling aid remaining on the pipe as a valve organ.
In contrast thereto, it is the object of the present invention to provide any number of valve-operated branch pieces at any point on a pipe which is not in operation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the basic concept of the present invention, for each valve-operated branch piece two opposite openings are first made in the pipe transversely to the main pipe axis. To this end, a hole may be bored, by means of a drill, into the two opposite surface areas of the pipe transversely to the main axis of the metal pipe. According to the invention, a prepared two-part unit composed of a top part and a bottom part is placed on the branching site thus defined. The bottom part of said prepared unit has a through passage for the medium to be diverted which passage matches the bottom predrilled bottom opening. The top part of said unit on the other hand includes a valve core which fits into the opposite opening. Both parts are firmly and sealingly clamped onto the pipe from the exterior. Advantageously, the two halves of the prepared unit may be connected via a hinge for this purpose so that the prepared unit may be placed onto the two prepared openings like open tongs and is then clamped onto the pipe by screwing up or otherwise tightly connecting the free ends of said "tongs".
In accordance with the invention, said clamping onto the pipe may also be effected on either side by means of a screwed joint instead of the hinge.
Further details, features, advantages and applications of the present invention may be gathered from the following description of two embodiment of the invention.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the preparation of any random pipe for branching via a unit with a valve to be placed thereon,
FIG. 2 a schematic lateral view of a
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Mohandesi J.
Reich KG
Sewell Paul T.
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