Abstract:
A particularly durable two-piece packing ring for sealing fixed and reciprocating cylindrical elements such as sight glasses of steam boilers, puff iron valves and the like where gland nut assemblies are required to seal such tubes and rods, this packing ring being entirely non-metallic and in two mating parts, that is, an outer ring and an inner ring with preferably differently tapered confronting faces to be forced together by a gland nut for a limited interface sealing contact.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an improved tube fitting of the swage variety which employs a body part, at least one ferrule designed to slip around a tube, and a nut used to compress the ferrule against the tube and the body part and thereby form a leak-tight connection between the tube and the body part. The nut is divided into two parts which are movably interconnected by a radially flanged tubular portion of one of the nut parts. This flanged tubular portion engages the ferrule and prevents rotation of the ferrule while it is being compressed against the body part by rotation of the other nut part.
Abstract:
An injection molded fluorocarbon resin plastic fitting for connection with plastic tubes preferably of fluorocarbon resinous material, the fitting including a sleeve with internal tube-receiving bore flared at the end of the sleeve, a plastic nut with a ferrule integral thereof and with a conical wedging shape identical to the wedging shape of the flared sleeve inner periphery, the flared inner periphery of the sleeve also having a sharp angled conical surface deforming the ferrule when tightened and embedding the ferrule in the tubing which is preferably grooved.
Abstract:
The juxtaposed ends of two glass pipe sections are joined by a coupling construction which comprises an inner coupling sleeve having its ends frictionally mounted in coupling chambers formed in cylindrical enlargements (end bells) provided at each of the juxtaposed ends to thereby effect radial fluid seals in the enlargements. An O-ring is disposed in an annular groove formed in the outer surface of the sleeve in the space between the juxtaposed ends to form fluid seals thereat. Threadedly telescoped external coupling rings are mounted over external portions of the enlargements to draw the latter toward each other to effect pressure between the enlargements and the O-ring to maintain the aforementioned fluid seals.
Abstract:
A fitting element is configured for coupling tubing to a fluidic device having a receiving cavity configured for receiving the fitting element, where the tubing has an inner contact surface of a biocompatible material, the inner contact surface being configured to contact a fluid to be conducted by the tubing, and the receiving cavity having a receiving contact surface of a bio-compatible material. The fitting element includes a first sealing element of a bio-compatible material configured for sealing to the bio-compatible material of the inner contact surface of the tubing, and a second sealing element configured for sealing against a pressure ambient to a pressure of the fluid in the tubing. Upon coupling of the tubing to the fluidic device, at least a portion of the receiving contact surface, the first sealing element, and the second sealing element enclose an interspace, each surface of the interspace being a bio-compatible material.
Abstract:
An operative fluid device (14) comprising a fluoropolymer body portion (24) and a fluoropolymer containment portion (22) connectable to one another for containing the fluid at a fluid sealing connection with two frustoconical surfaces (42, 74) that first confront one another and then engage one another as the connection is made, one of the frustoconical surfaces being convex and the other concave, wherein when the surfaces are confronting one another before they are engaged they are angularly mismatched, and wherein the frustoconical surfaces first sealing contact is at a radially inward annular position on each of the frustoconical surfaces and proximate the interior, and as the mating portions are urged together, the sealing contact expands from the radially inward annular position radially outward to include majority of at least one of the two angularly mismatched frustoconical surfaces. Suitable annular structure including annular rings (70) and annular recesses radially outboard from the frustoconical surfaces may provide radial constraint to the frustoconical surfaces as they are engaged and such annular structure may provide additional annular supplemental seals.
Abstract:
A fluid seal generally comprising a first fitting portion (50) and a second fitting portion (28), wherein at least one of the fitting portions can be deformed or deflected in a sealing relationship relative to the other fitting portion to form the fluid seal. A fitting includes a first fitting portion comprising a small projection (52) extending from a substantially planar surface. The fitting further includes a fitting portion comprising a substantially planar second surface (59). A fluid seal is created by forcing the small projection of the first fitting portion and substantially planar surface of the second fitting portion together. As they are forced together, the projection deforms to form the fluid seal. The fitting can be used to connect tubes, pipes, a valve, a manifold, and combinations thereof. The sealing method can also be used to protect the components of a pressure sensor from the corroding effects of process fluid vapors.
Abstract:
Provided is a process for producing a glass-like carbon deformed molded article having a deformed section (typically, an elliptical section or a section composed of partial circles and linear portions), such as a glass-like carbon member in a deformed pipe form or a bent pipe, with relative ease and a good dimensional accuracy. The process comprises the step of molding a thermosetting resin to yield a thermosetting resin molded article, the step of deforming the thermosetting resin molded article plastically in the state that the article is heated, so as to yield a thermosetting resin deformed article, and the step of carbonizing the resultant thermosetting resin deformed article.