Pipe joints or couplings – Particular interface – Tapered
Patent
1989-04-10
1991-07-02
Arola, Dave W.
Pipe joints or couplings
Particular interface
Tapered
285353, 285369, 285381, 285423, 285915, F16L 2500
Patent
active
050280813
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to connections for tubular materials of composite materials.
Commerically produced pipes of composite materials for pressures of 2000-3000 psi are connected by threads made in the same material.
The pipes are produced from resins and by fiber-glass filament winding at the ends of which the sealings are assured by tapered threads between the pipe and a connecting sleeve.
The threads on the tube are either machined directly on the material, or remolded after premachining of the end.
The sleeves are made in two ways: either by simple machining of sections of sufficient length, or remolded on a mandrel machined according to the thread required as is shown in FIG. 1.
When these connection-pipe assemblies are subjected either to ambient temperature, or to temperatures that are higher but lower than the maximum temperature of use of the composites, under stress conditions, numerous deficiencies are revealed in the characteristics of the assembly. The deficiencies essentially appear when these assemblies are subjected to simultaneous stresses of pressure and tension.
The defects and often the ruin of these assemblies are connected to: stresses produce shearing strains which alter the wall of the sleeve and cause a cracking and a leak. the breaking of the assembly.
In most cases having as the object special pressure and tension tests, these assemblies were ruined whereas the pipe itself exhibited a good behavior.
This invention has as its object to eliminate these drawbacks by dissociating the sealing zone from the zone of transmission of forces whereas in the materials currently available, these two zones are brought together on the thread of the sleeve of composite material.
A connection for pipes of composite materials according to the invention comprises for each pipe end to be connected: glued, between the two outer jackets.
Numerous sealing means have been tested including the system having a plastic or metal seal in the shape of an O-ring or the like. Either as a result of complexity of use, or for lack of reliability, these systems have not been retained.
According to a preferred embodiment, the sealing means between the two inner jackets, particularly between their respective ends oriented toward one another, consists of a tapered bearing surface and a spherical part that work with one another.
In some embodiments, the means of connection between the two outer jackets consists of a threaded sleeve whose symmetrical female threads correspond to male threads made on each of the jackets.
In other embodiments, the means of connection between the two outer jackets consists in that a first outer jacket is extended by a female jacket equipped with an inner thread pitch and a second outer jacket is equipped on its end profile with a male thread pitch able to be screwed into the female thread pitch of the first jacket.
Two embodiments are presented below with reference to the accompanying drawings; they are given by way of examples and do not limit the scope of the invention.
FIG. 1 shows the current state of the art.
FIG. 2 shows an embodiment with connection.
FIG. 3 shows an embodiment with a male connector and a female sleeve.
With reference to FIG. 1, the ends of two pipes 1 and 2 of composite material connected by a sleeve 3 in the same material or in a similar material are distinguished.
The ends of pipes 1 and 2 carry male threads remolded on the pipe and sleeve 3 carries machined or molded female threads. The connections led to breaking as was previously indicated.
FIG. 2 shows a connection according to the invention between two pipes 1 and 2 of composite material. Each end of pipe 1 and 2 is equipped with an inner jacket 4 that is adjusted to the inside diameter of the pipe and glued and with an outer jacket 5 or band that is shrunk-on and glued. A threaded sleeve 3 constitutes the means of connection between the two outer sleeves whereas the association of a tapered part 6 of an inner jacket with a spherical part 7 of the other inner jacket constitutes the sealing means. The inner an
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Arola Dave W.
Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine
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