Abstract:
A toilet flushing system includes a fresh water feed, a fluid storage container connected to the fresh water feed, and a supply line coupled to the storage container and a toilet. The fluid storage container has a container casing and first and second separating diaphragms within the casing. The separating diaphragms define first, second and third partial chambers within the container casing for separately receiving gas and fresh water. The second partial chamber is defined between the separating diaphragms and receives gas. A valve in the fresh water feed and the supply line, closes the fresh water feed and the supply line. The valve is movable between a first switch position for filling the partial chamber with fresh water to be delivered to the toilet and a second switch position in which the third partial chamber simultaneously is filled with a medium.
Abstract:
A pressure vessel contains a flexible separator comprising three layers, an outer layer, an inner layer and an intermediate layer which is at least partly impermeable to gases. The intermediate layer comprises a metal film. A particular application of the pressure vessel is to braking circuits.
Abstract:
A fluid storage and expulsion system comprising a tank 12 with an internal flexible diaphragm assembly of dual diaphragms 17,18 in back-to-back relationship, at least one of which is provided with a patterned surface having fine edges such that the diaphragms are in contact along said edges without mating contact of surface areas to thereby form fluid channels 27 which extend outwardly to the peripheral edges of the diaphragms. The interior wall of the tank at the juncture of tank sections 14,15 is formed with a circumferential annular recess comprising an outer annular recess portion which forms a fluid collection chamber 40 and an inner annular recess portion which accommodates the peripheral edge portions of the diaphragms and a sealing ring 38 in clamped sealing relation therebetween. The sealing ring is perforated with radially extending passages 39 which allow any fluid leaking or diffusing past a diaphragm to flow through the fluid channels 27 between the diaphragms to the fluid collection chamber. Ports 21,23, connectable to pressure fittings are provided in the tank sections for admission of fluids to opposite sides of the diaphragm assembly. A drain passage 42 through the tank wall to the fluid collection chamber permits detection, analysis and removal of fluids in the collection chamber.
Abstract:
Method of manufacturing an accumulator device including a shell portion having an open mouth and a cap member affixed over the open mouth after a bladder assembly has been secured within the shell portion of the pressure vessel. The method comprises in the provision of an exterior annular weld connecting the cap member to the outer wall portion of the vessel as well as an interior weld connection between the interior wall portion of the cap member and the upwardly directed end edge of the mouth of the pressure vessel. By locating the metallic skirt member which functions to support the bladder such that the top of the skirt forms a dam for containing the weld which secures the cap member interior to the uppermost edge of the pressure vessel, the possibility of weld fragments falling into the bladder causing damage to the latter is minimized.
Abstract:
A sleeve-type bladder accumulator having an outer generally cylindrical body, an apertured cylindrical stop tube concentrically disposed within the cylindrical body, an elastic tubular bladder sleeve partially enveloping the stop tube with each end of the sleeve being anchored by sandwiching between a bladder retainer carried on the adjacent end of the stop tube and the end cap fixed to the adjacent end of the cylindrical body, a clamping spring nested within the bore of one end of the stop tube and a spring socket formed by the adjacent bladder retainer to exert a force upon the stop tube tending to move the stop tube away from the adjacent bladder retainer to secure a pair of split shear rings which lock each end of the cylindrical body to its adjacent end cap, and sealing means made more secure by the force generated by the clamping spring.
Abstract:
A pressure vessel having a housing subdivided by a flexible partition into an upper gas portion and a lower liquid portion. The gas portion of the housing forms a gas chamber surrounding by an upper wall formed of curved lines of various radius. An inlet to receive a pressure gas is formed in the upper wall so that the inlet is positioned in the area of the upper wall outlined with a curve of a minimal radius. After loading of the pressure vessel with a gas under relatively high pressure the inlet is sealed by a locking element. In the area where the inlet with the locking element is positioned, the deformations exerted on the wall under gas pressure are minimal.
Abstract:
A pressure vessel includes a housing having an interior and a passage communicating with the interior and being bounded by an inner circumferential surface. A separate plug is received in the passage. The plug has an outer circumferential surface juxtaposed with the inner circumferential surface. These surfaces define together at least one gap of relatively small cross-section. The gap extends lengthwise of the passage communicating with the interior of the housing.
Abstract:
The method of forming a pressure accumulator which comprises the steps of molding the mouth of the deformable separator or bladder of the pressure accumulator to one end of the cylindrical portion of an annular supporting member, inserting the annular supporting member and bladder into the open end of a cylindrical casing with the cylindrical portion of the supporting member in juxtaposition with the inner surface of said casing, said casing having the other end thereof deformed inwardly and having an axial port, fusing the other end of the cylindrical portion to the inner surface of the casing and then deforming inwardly the open end of the casing to close the latter and forming an axial port in such closed end to receive a gas charging valve.
Abstract:
A hydropneumatic pressure tank, whose housing consists of a bottom part and of a top part which are connected with each other by a welded seam; a retaining ring is arranged at the inner wall of the tank within the area of the welding seam, at which is secured the bellows serving as movable partition wall; at least the part of the retaining ring opposite the welding seam thereby consists of a layer rejecting the welding material.
Abstract:
A means for mounting a diaphragm in an accumulator-reservoir device or the like in which the gland receiving the diaphgram bead has faces formed to oppose such pull on the bead as will break the sealing contact between gland faces and the bead. Back draft angles and grooved surfaces are used in conjunction with an initial applied compression to fix the bead in place in the gland.