Device for connecting a pump body to a pipe of a hydraulic system

Abstract

A device for connecting a pump body to a pipe of a hydraulic system, characterized in that it comprises a planar flange having a thread on the inside diameter for its coupling to a tubular intake portion or delivery portion of said pump body, which is threaded complementarily on its outside diameter.

Claims

1. A combination of a pump having a pump body and a pipe of a hydraulic system, comprising a connecting device which connects said pump body to said pipe, said connecting device comprising a planar flange having a thread on an inside diameter of said planar flange for coupling of said planar flange to a tubular intake portion or delivery portion of said pump body, said tubular intake portion or delivery portion being threaded complementarily to said thread of said planar flange on an outside diameter of said tubular intake portion or delivery portion of said pump body, said planar flange having two mutually opposed completely planar surfaces without protuberances extending perpendicularly to said planar surfaces, said thread extending on said inside diameter of said planar flange entirely between said opposed planar surfaces of said planar flange, said planar flange comprising at least one connecting portion which connects to an end flange of said pipe, said at least one connecting portion of said planar flange and said end flange of said pipe each having at least one hole that is crossed by a screw for tightening said planar flange to said end flange of said pipe and thereby connecting said pump body to said pipe, wherein a planar surface of said end flange abuts one of said two mutually opposed completely planar surfaces of said planar flange.

2. The combination according to claim 1, said planar flange comprising two said connecting portions that protrude outward in diametrically opposite positions.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) Further characteristics and advantages of the invention will become better apparent from the description of a preferred but not exclusive embodiment of the device according to the invention, illustrated by way of nonlimiting example in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

(2) FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pump body with two planar flanges of the device according to the invention prior to their coupling to the pump body;

(3) FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the pump body after connection to a pipe.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

(4) With reference to the figures, the device according to the invention is designated generally by the reference numeral 10.

(5) It can be used in the connection of a pump body 11, for example a circulating pump, to a pipe 12 of a hydraulic system.

(6) The device 10 comprises a planar flange 13 to be coupled to an end flange 14 of the pipe 12. The planar flange 13 has a thread on the inside diameter for its coupling to a tubular intake portion 15a or to a tubular delivery portion 15b of the pump body 11, which is threaded complementarily on its outside diameter.

(7) Coupling occurs along the axis 16 of the tubular portion 15a or 15b.

(8) In particular, the pump 21, which comprises the device 10, comprises at the end of each tubular intake portion 15a and delivery portion 15b a portion 17 for coupling to the planar flange 13, which has a larger outside diameter than the remaining part, at which it is threaded complementarily.

(9) In the illustrated example, the planar flange 13 comprises two portions 18 for connection to the flange 14 of the pipe 12 to which the pump body 11 is to be connected.

(10) The connecting portions 18 protrude outward in diametrically opposite positions and each have a hole 19 adapted to be crossed by screws 20 for tightening the planar flange 13 to the flange 14 of the pipe 12.

(11) The use of the device according to the invention is as follows.

(12) Prior to the installation of the pump, two planar flanges are associated with the two tubular portions, the intake portion 15a and the delivery portion 15b, by screwing them onto the coupling portions 17.

(13) During installation, the holes 19 of each planar flange 13 must be arranged so as to match the holes of the respective flange 14 of the pipe 12, in order to allow their mutual tightening by means of the appropriately provided screws.

(14) In this operation, the planar flanges 13, after they have been screwed, can be rotated, screwing them only partially, about the axis 16 of the tubular portions 15a and 15b, in order to move the holes 19 to the correct position. The thread has such a length as to ensure the coupling between the planar flanges 13 and the coupling portion 17 of the tubular portion 15a or 15b in any orientation of the planar flange 13.

(15) By virtue of the thread, therefore, there is no risk that the planar flanges 13 might separate accidentally from the pump body 11 during installation, since they remain screwed on without falling, and at the same time said thread ensures the rotation of the pump body 11 with respect to the pipe 12.

(16) From what has been described and illustrated it is evident that the proposed device 10 is structurally simple and easy to use.

(17) Moreover, it allows the coupling of the pump body to a pipe that is already provided with flanges welded thereon.

(18) In practice it has been found that the invention achieves the intended aim and objects, providing a device that allows to install a pump body in a hydraulic system easily and rapidly according to the most suitable orientation, even when the pipe of the system is already provided with flanges welded to its ends and without problems of instability of the planar flanges to be coupled to the intake and delivery portions.

(19) The invention thus conceived is susceptible of numerous modifications and variations, all of which are within the scope of the appended claims; all the details may furthermore be replaced with other technically equivalent elements.

(20) In practice, the materials used, so long as they are compatible with the specific use, as well as the contingent shapes and dimensions, may be any according to the requirements and the state of the art.