Connection for transition from a cutting ring joint or similar to a flange joint

• US 4,252,346 A
• Filed: 12/05/1978
• Issued: 02/24/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Goran V. Sundholm
• Original Assignee: Goran V. Sundholm
• Inventors: Sundholm, Goran V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Callaghan, Thomas F.
• Application Number:
  US05/966,725
• Time in Patent Office: 812 Days
• Field of Search: 285/334.1, 285/334.2, 285/414, 285/189, 285/382.7, 285/363, 285/158, 285/415, 285/334.3, 285/18
• US Class Current: 285/18
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 23/0286 the shoulder not being formed from the pipe
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 41/086 fixed with screws

Abstract

A connection for transition from a cutting ring joint to a flange joint. In a conventional connection piece for cutting ring joints is applied an insertion piece for abutment against a fixed flange. On the end thread of the connection piece is screwed a flange which is secured to the fixed flange.

Claims

1. A connection assembly for connecting an end of a tubular member to a flat apertured member, comprising a connection piece which has at least two ends and defines an internal passage which extends from one end of the connection piece to the other end thereof and is enlarged at said one end for receiving said end of the tubular member surrounded by a sealing ring and is also enlarged at said other end of the connection piece, said connection piece being provided at said one end with an external screwthread whereby an internally threaded sleeve may be screwed onto said one end for urging the sealing ring into the enlargement of the passageway at said one end of the connection piece thereby to establish a seal between the connection piece and said end of said tubular member, and said connection piece also being provided with an external screwthread at said other end thereof;

and the assembly further comprising an insert member adapted to be fitted in sealing manner in the enlargement of the internal passage of the connection piece at said other end thereof, and an internally threaded flange member adapted to be screwed onto the external screwthread at said other end of the connection piece and to be secured to said flat apertured member, said insert member having a peripheral flange portion of greater external diameter than the connection piece at said other end thereof and the flange member having an internal shoulder which engages said flange portion when the flange member is unscrewed from the connection piece to pull the insert member out of the enlargement at said other end of the connection piece, and the flat apertured member having an outer face and the insert member having an outer end face for engaging said outer face of the flat apertured member, one of said faces being formed with an annular recess and there being a sealing member disposed in said annular recess.

2. A connection assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the enlargement of said passage at said other end of the connection piece has an inner cylindrical part, which terminates in a shoulder joining the enlargement to the rest of the passage, and an outer frusto-conical part, and the insert member has a peripheral surface which is shaped substantially complementarily with said enlargement, and wherein the insert member is formed with a peripheral groove and a sealing member is disposed in said groove.

5. A connection assembly as claimed in claim 1 or 3, wherein the connection piece has two branches which are disposed at right angles to each other and which terminate in said two ends respectively of the connection piece.

6. A connection assembly as claimed in claim 1 or 3, wherein the enlargement of said passage at said other end of the connection piece has an inner cylindrical part, which terminates in a shoulder joining the enlargement to the rest of the passage, and an outer frusto-conical part, and the insert member has a peripheral surface which is shaped substantially complementarily with said enlargement.

8. A connection assembly as claimed in claim 7 or 2, wherein said peripheral groove is formed in that part of the insert member which is shaped to be substantially complementarily with said inner cylindrical part of the enlargement at said other end of the passage.

9. A connection assembly as claimed in claim 1 or 3, wherein the insert member is provided with a deformable peripheral rib which engages the interior surface of the enlargement at said other end of the passage when the insert member is received in said enlargement.

3. A connection assembly for connecting an end of a tubular member to a flat apertured member, comprising a connection piece which has at least two ends and defines an internal passage which extends from one end of the connection piece to the other end thereof and is enlarged at said one end of the connection piece for receiving said end of the tubular member surrounded by a sealing ring and is also enlarged at said other end of the connection piece, said connection piece being provided at said one end with an external screwthread whereby an internally threaded sleeve may be screwed onto said one end for urging the sealing ring into the enlargement in the passageway at said one end of the connection piece thereby to establish a seal between the connection piece and said end of said tubular member, and said connection piece also being provided with an external screwthread at said other end thereof;

and the assembly further comprising an insert member adapted to be fitted in the enlargement of the internal passage of the connection piece at said other end thereof, and an internally threaded flange member adapted to be screwed onto the external screwthread at said other end of the connection piece and to be secured to said flat apertured member, said insert member having a peripheral flange portion of greater external diameter than the connection piece at said other end thereof and the flange member having an internal shoulder which engages said flange portion when the flange member is unscrewed from the connection piece to pull the insert member out of the enlargement at said other end of the connection piece, and the insert member having an outer end face for engaging the flat apertued member and being formed in said outer end face with an annular recess, there being a first sealing member disposed in said annular recess and a second sealing member disposed between the connection piece and the insert member.

4. A connection assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the insert member is formed with a peripheral groove and said second sealing member is disposed in said groove.

7. A connection assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the enlargement of said passage at said other end of the connection piece has an inner cylindrical part, which terminates in a shoulder joining the enlargement to the rest of the passage, and an outer frusto-conical part, and the insert member has a peripheral surface which is shaped substantially complementarily with said enlargement, and wherein the insert member is formed with a peripheral groove and said second sealing member is disposed in said groove.