Abstract:
A rupture disk is provided for relieving pressure between the interior of a battery box and the exterior of the battery box, the box having an outlet opening. The apparatus includes a first layer that provides a gasket which abuts the battery box, the gasket having a central opening which aligns with the battery box opening. A second layer is in the form of a reverse buckling disk having a disk flange, a domed portion and a weakened portion on the dome that defines a disk burst pressure, the second layer having concave and convex sides. A third layer that is an outlet ring that sandwiches the second layer in between the first and the third layer layers, the outlet ring having a central opening surrounded by an edge. A plurality of teeth on the third layer extend from said edge inwardly a distance. A plurality of tabs are provided on the first and third layers, said tabs including circumferentially spaced apart tabs on each of said first and third layers, each tab having a tab opening, said tabs generally aligning so that a fastener can be passed through the tab openings of the first layer and the third layer. The third layer is attached to the second layer which is a metal disk by means of spot weld around the disk flange and the first layer attached to the metal disk by means of an adhesive thus forming a rupture disk assembly. The fasteners affix this rupture disk assembly to the box. The second layer is generally circular and surrounded by the fasteners. The teeth are positioned on the concave side of the second layer. In a preferred embodiment, the teeth do not extend so far inwardly that they extend inwardly beyond the weakened portion or score. From any radial line extending from the center of the layers, the weakened portion is reached before any tooth, the teeth thus being spaced radially a distance equal to or greater than the weakened portion or score.
Abstract:
A rupture disk is provided for relieving pressure between the interior and exterior of a battery box, the box having an outlet opening. The apparatus includes a first layer that provides a gasket which abuts the battery box, the gasket having a central opening which aligns with the battery box opening. A second layer is in the form of a reverse buckling disk having a disk flange, a domed portion and a weakened portion on the dome that defines a disk burst pressure, the second layer having concave and convex sides. A third layer is an outlet ring that sandwiches the second layer in between the first and the third layers, the outlet ring having a central opening surrounded by an edge. A plurality of teeth on the third layer extend from said edge inwardly a distance. A plurality of tabs are provided on the first and third layers.
Abstract:
In combination with a rupture disc assembly, there is provided an improvement by using a support ring having a projection and a continuous, generally clover leaf pattern cutting edge.
Abstract:
An improved low pressure reverse buckling rupture disk and assembly are provided. The rupture disk comprises a concave-convex reversible member having a thickness and a configuration such that said member reverses when a predetermined fluid pressure is exerted on the convex side thereof and having one or more reinforcing embossments disposed therein. The rupture disk assembly includes the above-described rupture disk and knife blade means for severing the disk upon its reversal.
Abstract:
A safety pressure relief assembly of the rupture disc type guards against pressure differentials, beyond a predetermined range in a vent system, and includes a relief disc perforated to permit reverse flow without rupture, a sealing disc positioned adjacent the relief disc and blocking positive flow through the perforations, a support member with a stay structure positioned to support the sealing disc nested within the relief disc, and a cutting member positioned to cut the sealing disc at a predetermined vacuum within the vent system. The relief disc has a concave surface and a convex surface. When a predetermined vacuum pressure differential is applied to the assembly, the sealing disc and the support structure are inverted to project away from the relief disc. During the inversion, the support structure is recessed between cutting blades of the cutting member and the sealing disc impacts the cutting blades and is cut thereby into a pattern having petals and a silhouette portion in the shape of the support structure. As fluid under pressure flows through the rupture disc assembly, the silhouette portion of the sealing disc is supported by the support structure and is located between the cutting blades. After cutting by the blades, the petal portions are no longer supported by the support structure and fold out of the way of the fluid to open channels or passageways through the rupture disc assembly and permit rapid equilibration of pressure between opposite sides of the system without loose portions of the assembly being formed.
Abstract:
Apparatus for protecting a fluid pressure system from over-pressure, comprising a dome-shaped, reverse acting rupture disk adapted to be installed in an outlet of the fluid pressure system with its convex face resisting the system pressure, the reverse acting rupture disk being adapted to abruptly snap over center when subjected to a pre-determined pressure level, and a knife blade assembly disposed adjacent the back or concave face of the reverse acting rupture disk for cutting it as it snaps over center. The apparatus further includes a dome-shaped, prebulged rupture disk separated from the reverse acting rupture disk by a spacer ring, the prebulged disk having its concave face toward the reverse acting rupture disk whereby the prebulged disk entraps any fluid that may leak past the reverse acting rupture disk and will reliably burst when its concave face is subjected to the system fluid pressure upon the rupture of the reverse acting rupture disk.
Abstract:
A safety pressure relief device of the reverse buckling type includes a puncturing element and a rupture disc having a groove or score line formed in the flange portion of the disc. The score line does not materially affect the rated pressure of the device during normal operation, and functions as a backup safety feature by providing a line of weakness along which the disc will tear if the pressure relief device is accidentally placed in a backward or reversed orientation with respect to the process, and/or if the cutting blades are inadvertently omitted from the rupture disc assembly.
Abstract:
A reverse buckling disc arrangement for direct mounting eliminates separate inlet and outlet seating rings for the disc flange. Centering ring units on both sides of the disc have flanges doubling as the seating rings. The centering ring projecting toward the higher pressure supports a screen for protecting the disc dome while permitting necessary flow-through.