Abstract:
A method and apparatus for sealing the drive end of a chamber for the preparation and hydrogenation of coal with hydrogen to form hydrocarbons in which the chamber comprises a hollow cylinder with a rotatable element therein having a conveying web thereon and in a sealing region a pressurized sealing substance such as coal particles mixed with oil is fed from a storage container through a feed passage into an annular recess at a pressure higher than that in the chamber so that the scaling substance passes through a conical annular gap which tapers towards the chamber. A further narrower gap on the drive side of the recess leads to a further annular recess from which the sealing substance can be extracted through a return pipe. Pressure comparison means control the feed pressure in the feed passage. The recesses and the annular gap can be provided by machining the rotatable element rather than the hollow cylinder and forward feed screw forms may be provided on the rotatable element in the sealing region.
Abstract:
A hatch intended for an autoclave or a similar pressure vessel for movement in two directions at an angle to each other provided with a plurality of eccentrically mounted members. These members are joined to each other for common pivotal movements between two end positions in planes at an angle to the plane of the hatch, are in engagement with a guide in front of the hatch and extending to one side of the pressure vessel opening, are at one of their pivotal end positions reciprocably displaceable together with the hatch while carrying it in said guide, and are at the other of their pivotal end positions engageable against the hatch with support in the guide for inserting the hatch into and locking the hatch against the pressure vessel opening and similarly with support in the guide displacing the hatch reciprocally in its direction at least substantially coinciding with the geometrical axis of the pressure vessel opening during pivotal movements of the eccentric members between said both pivotal end positions.
Abstract:
A sealing device for an opening in the wall of a container which is loaded with or emptied of fluid loose material, viscous deposits, sludges or the like and which after the loading or the emptying is sealed tightly and has a sealing element which is brought into sealing abutment to a sealing seat, secured to the wall, by means of its sealing surface. The sealing element has a sealing surface which is brought into linear sealing abutment with the sealing seat. Above this line of sealing abutment, a casing having a diameter smaller than that of the sealing abutment line is supported on the sealing surface of the sealing element during the first part of the opening operation and is free of engagement therewith in the following movement. A guide device is provided for the charge, by means of which it can be guided onto the area of the sealing element, which is enclosed by the casing, resting on the sealing surface of the sealing element to thereby protect the sealing seat from engagement with the material during the opening andclosing movement of the sealing element.
Abstract:
A visco-type seal is disclosed wherein a sealing pressure is built up in a fluid by means of one or more helical windings, the fluid being enclosed in a narrow clearance between a stator and a rotor. The alignment of the rotor within the stator is insured by providing a thin layer of material at the outer ends of at least one of the helical windings so that the clearance in a radial direction between the stator and the rotor at this location is less than the clearance existing in a radial direction between the helical windings and the stator. In one embodiment, the stator is designed as a sleeve which has a flexible connection in the radial direction with respect to a wall. The stator or a sealing element fastened thereto is movable in an axial direction by means of a resilient force to obtain a proper sealing when the device is at rest.
Abstract:
A closure assembly for a pressure vessel having at least one open end in which a plurality of girder assemblies extends across the open end, with each of the girder assemblies consisting of a plurality of girders which are connected together. Each girder assembly is individually releasably connected to the vessel.
Abstract:
An apparatus forming a closure seal especially adapted for utilization wherein high internal pressures are to be contained within a cylindrical high pressure cell. The closure seal is formed of a concave inner cylinder which readily transforms the pressures exerted within the cell to lateral forces which are exerted between the concave closure seal and the cylinder walls of the cell.