Fluid tight closure
    36.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US3766947A

    公开(公告)日:1973-10-23

    申请号:US3766947D

    申请日:1972-06-05

    申请人: WILLIAMSON INC T

    发明人: OSBURN C

    IPC分类号: F16K51/00 F16L55/10

    CPC分类号: F16K51/00 F16L55/11

    摘要: This invention relates to apparatus for forming a fluid tight closure of an opening in a vessel. The apparatus includes a conduit or fitting adapted to be connected to the vessel, a plug insertable into the conduit and a means for locking the plug in the conduit to prevent the plug from moving out of the conduit. The locking means includes a locking element engageable with the plug to lock it in place. A connector located in a lateral bore through the conduit is connected at one end of the locking element and its other end has a threaded engagement with a nut also located in the lateral bore. Stops are provided at opposite ends of the nut so that upon rotation of the nut to move the connector and locking element between retracted and locking positions, the nut will alternately engage the stops. By making the distance between the stops greater than the length of the nut, the nut is free to move longitudinally between the stops and this construction avoids maintaining close manufacturing tolerances with respect to the distance between the stops. In a preferred embodiment, the inner stop is provided by a shoulder between an outer larger diameter portion of the bore and an inner smaller diameter portion. A seal is carried by the connector to seal between it and the smaller diameter portion of the bore as the connector is reciprocated by turning the nut. Normally the locking element will engage the conduit when in fully retracted position to limit makeup of the nut on the connector and hence limit the outward travel of the connector so as to maintain the seal within the smaller diameter portion of the bore. However, if excessive torque is applied to the nut so as to break the engagement of the connector with the locking element, means are provided to limit further makeup of the nut on the connector and the seal is located so as to remain within the smaller diameter portion of the bore when the nut has a maximum makeup on the connector and both have been displaced outwardly so the nut is in engagement with the outer stop. With this construction, the connector does not rotate thereby enabling it to have a simple bifurcated connection with the locking element and to carry a seal which merely slides along the bore in the conduit without rotation. The seal also isolates the threaded connection from fluids within the vessel.

    Apparatus for communicating service lines to mains
    37.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for communicating service lines to mains 失效
    用于交流服务线的设备

    公开(公告)号:US3709250A

    公开(公告)日:1973-01-09

    申请号:US3709250D

    申请日:1971-09-01

    申请人: WILLIAMSON INC T

    发明人: BATES M

    摘要: A device for facilitating the act of connecting a service line to a flowing main line. A gate type valve is rigidly attached to the main line and a barrel is removably affixed to the valve and is adapted to cooperate with a mandrel which includes a shaped charge at one extremity thereof. The mandrel cooperates with the barrel to enable the shaped charge to be positioned adjacent the main line, whereupon the explosive shaped charge perforates the main line when a detonator is activated. The mandrel is retrieved along with the barrel to enable further use of the device. The invention also comprehends a mandrel that can be affixed between the gate valve and the flowing main line by including a recoil device in conjunction therewith. The invention further includes a shaped charge that is adapted to be fabricated into the ball member of a ball type valve.

    摘要翻译: 用于促进将服务线连接到流动主线的动作的装置。 门型阀刚性地连接到主线,并且桶可移除地固定到阀上,并且适于与在其一个末端包括成形装料的心轴配合。 心轴与筒体配合使得成形装料能够靠近主线定位,于是当雷管被启动时,炸药成形装置对主线穿孔。 心轴与筒一起收回,以进一步使用该装置。 本发明还包括可以通过包括与其结合的反冲装置来固定在闸阀和流动主管线之间的心轴。 本发明还包括适于制造成球形阀的球形构件的成形装料。

    Pipeline cleaning device
    38.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US3604041A

    公开(公告)日:1971-09-14

    申请号:US3604041D

    申请日:1968-11-26

    申请人: WILLIAMSON INC T

    发明人: NOOY BURTON VER

    IPC分类号: B08B9/04 B08B9/057

    CPC分类号: B08B9/0553

    摘要: A pipeline cleaning device comprising a body adapted to be moved forwardly through the pipeline, a plurality of springs mounted on the body, and a scraping element carried on each spring for engaging the inner wall of the pipeline in circumferentially spaced-apart relation. Each scraping element includes a base connected to the spring, a V-shaped blade upstanding from the base for tightly engaging the pipeline wall with its apex on the forward end thereof, and a relatively stiff rod extending from the base for tightly engaging at its outer end with the pipeline wall between the sides of the blade. Each of the base, blade, and rod is formed of urethane.