Condensate removal device for steam lines and the like

• US 4,426,213 A
• Filed: 04/09/1982
• Issued: 01/17/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Engineering Resources Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Engineering Resources Group, Inc.
• Inventors: Stavropoulos, Constantine N.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lacey, David L.
• Application Number:
  US06/366,787
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 55/466, 55/502, 55/185, 55/190, 55/199, 55/277, 138/41, 138/44, 239/390, 239/391, 239/396, 239/591, 239/590.5, 210/451, 210/459
• US Class Current: 55/466
• CPC Class Codes: F16T 1/34 without moving parts other than hand valves, e.g. labyrinth type

Abstract

A flow constriction device, typically for drainage of steam condensate, is provided with a tubular nozzle structure inserted within a bore formed in the body of the device. The insertable tubular nozzle structure provides convenient variation in flow constriction dimensions which can be employed with a generally standardized bore dimension.

Claims

1. In a device for drainage of condensate from steam systems without passage of live steam, the improvement wherein said device comprises:

a. a body structure having a fluid flow conduit therethrough and including a generally cylindrical bore formed entirely within said body structure;

b. a first tubular nozzle frictionally mounted within said bore, said first nozzle having an internal constricted passageway therethrough communicating with said conduit, said first nozzle being interchangeable with at least a second tubular nozzle having external configuration likewise for frictional mounting within said bore, said second nozzle having an internal constricted passageway which is selected to be different in configuration than that of said first nozzle in order to enable variation in the constricted passageways suitable for operation with different steam pressures and different condensate drainage in said steam systems;

c. said conduit including a conical formation within said body structure, said conical formation opening outwardly from an entrance to said bore;

d. said first tubular nozzle including a terminal flange engaging said conical formation; and

e. said first nozzle including at least first, second, and third generally coaxial and cylindrical constrictions formed within said passageway, the second of said constrictions having a somewhat larger diameter than the diameter of said first constriction and said third constriction having a diameter somewhat larger than the diameters of said first and second constrictions, said second constriction communicating with said first constriction through a first truncated conical bore joined therebetween, said third constriction communicated with said second constriction through a second truncated conical bore joined therebetween, so that the axial alignment of said first, second and third constrictions is in sequential order of increasing relative diameter.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said body structure includes an exit formation at the opposite end from said entrance to said bore and wherein said tubular nozzle projects from said bore into said exit formation.