CN106698316B - A kind of oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanism - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a kind of oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanisms, belong to mechanical equipment technical field.It includes flexible nanubrium, sealing cover, food tray fixed ring, scraper ring, cylinder, spray vapour device and hydraulic cylinder, the flexible nanubrium upper end for being connected with steam is connect with hoist structure, its lower end is equipped with spray vapour device, spray vapour device includes steam jet head, steam jet pipe and fixed bracket, steam jet head is connected to and is mutually permanently connected with flexible nanubrium bottom, it is provided with the annular groove equipped with scraper ring inside food tray fixed ring, food tray fixed ring lower end is fixed with the circular hole being provided with across sealing cover the center point and the cylinder being mutually permanently connected;Steam blowing entrance is provided on cylinder.This invention ensures that it is clean after flexible nanubrium use, mixing between different oil products is avoided, realizes and heating is carried out to different oil products and the recycling and reusing to oil product on flexible nanubrium is adhered to, reduce the wasting of resources, improve production efficiency, reduce cost.
Description
Present patent application is for application No. is the divisional application of 201410839154X, the applyings date of original application
Are as follows: 2014-12-30, invention and created name are as follows: a kind of groove tank car condensation heavy oil heating oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanism.
Technical field
The invention belongs to mechanical equipment technical fields, more specifically to a kind of oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanism.
Background technique
Oil filling riser is the special equipment during petrochemical industry fluid assembly and disassembly, also known as fluid assembly and disassembly arm.It uses rotary joint
It is connected with rigid conduit and elbow, transmits liquid medium between train, tank wagon and trestle storage and transportation pipeline to realize
Vehicular equipment has the features such as very high safety, flexibility and long service life to replace old-fashioned hose to connect.It is chiefly used in
Petroleum, chemical industry harbour liquid loading and unloading manage interior medium such as oil, water.But the freezing point of crude oil about -50 DEG C~35 DEG C it
Between, therefore be easier to solidify, and in prior art application, groove tank car may be by petroleum, chemical industry harbour liquid conveying to temperature
Lower field, or because weather reason temperature is lower, petroleum or chemical industry harbour liquid in groove tank car etc. can reduce freezing point
Below and it is frozen into solid-state, therefore cannot be unloaded immediately using oil filling riser crude oil after being transported to destination, it is necessary to slot
Crude oil in tank car, which first carries out heating fusing rear, can be carried out and unloaded using oil filling riser crude oil, thus be badly in need of it is a kind of can be to slot
The equipment that crude oil is heated in tank car, i.e., a kind of groove tank car condense heavy oil heating oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanism.
Summary of the invention
1, it to solve the problems, such as
For the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, the present invention provides a kind of oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanism, which ensure that flexible
It is clean after nanubrium use, mixing between different oil products is avoided, realizes and different oil products heat and stretch to being adhered to
The recycling and reusing of oil product on contracting nanubrium reduces the wasting of resources, improves production efficiency, reduces cost.
2, technical solution
To solve the above-mentioned problems, the technical solution adopted in the present invention is as follows:
A kind of oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanism, including flexible nanubrium, sealing cover, food tray fixed ring, scraper ring, cylinder, spray vapour device
And hydraulic cylinder, the flexible nanubrium upper end is connect with hoist structure, and steam is connected in it, the lower end of the flexible nanubrium
Equipped with spray vapour device, the spray vapour device includes steam jet head, steam jet pipe and fixed bracket, and the steam jet head is cylindrical shape, and its
Match with the bottom size shape of the flexible nanubrium and is connected to and is mutually permanently connected, the company of the steam jet head and flexible nanubrium
The place of connecing periphery is fixed with the fixation bracket of the Circular Plate shape of coaxial arrangement, in the steam jet head along the fixed bracket to down toward institute
State the steam jet pipe for being fixed between steam jet head bottom and communicating with the steam jet head;The hydraulic cylinder is fixed on hoist structure
On vertical side arm, the end of telescoping cylinder is fixed on the sealing cover upper surface;The food tray fixed ring is circular ring shape, in
Portion is provided with an annular groove, is equipped with the scraper ring in the annular groove, food tray fixed ring lower end is fixed with and its excircle
Face diameter match cylinder, the sealing cover be circular ring shape, the cylinder pass through the sealing cover the center point be provided with
The circular hole of the drum diameter size matching is simultaneously mutually permanently connected;Steam blowing entrance, the steam are provided on the cylinder
Purging entrance is connected with steam blowing delivery pipe.
Further, the food tray fixed ring, scraper ring and the coaxial arrangement of flexible nanubrium, and the diameter of the scraper ring is small
In the diameter of the flexible nanubrium excircle, the diameter of the excircle of the flexible nanubrium is less than food tray fixed ring inner ring circle
The diameter in week.
Further, the support bracket fastened diameter is greater than diameter of a circle where the cylinder excircle, the cylinder
Diameter is greater than the diameter of the flexible nanubrium.
Further, the steam jet pipe is cylindrical shape, there is 1-3 row, and every row has 6 sprays being located in same level
Steam pipe and impartial angle are horizontally fixed on the steam jet head excircle, and the steam jet head bottom is provided with straight with the steam jet pipe
The identical steam (vapor) outlet of diameter size.
Further, it is straight to be less than oil tank outage for the sum of the double length of the steam jet pipe and the diameter of the steam jet head
The diameter of diameter, the sealing cover is greater than oil tank outage diameter.
3, beneficial effect
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the benefit that
(1) this invention ensures that flexible nanubrium use after neat and tidy, it is real so as to avoid mixing between different oil products
Show and different oil products have been heated, without just can be carried out the heating operation to different oil products again after being cleaned again;
(2) present invention and recycling and reusing to the oil product being adhered on flexible nanubrium is realized, reduces the wave of resource
Take, and improve production efficiency, reduces cost;
(3) present invention also has simple structure and reasonable design, easily fabricated, easy to operate, and realizes cleaning automation
Advantage.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 just cuts open structural schematic diagram for of the invention;
Fig. 2 is side structure schematic view of the invention.
Specific embodiment
The present invention is further described below combined with specific embodiments below.
As depicted in figs. 1 and 2, a kind of groove tank car condenses heavy oil heating oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanism, including flexible nanubrium 1, sealing
Lid 5, food tray fixed ring 2, scraper ring 3, cylinder 9, spray vapour device and hydraulic cylinder 12, flexible 1 upper end of nanubrium and pneumatic elevator
Mechanism connection, and steam is connected in it, the lower end of the flexible nanubrium 1 is equipped with spray vapour device, and the spray vapour device includes spray vapour
First 6, steam jet pipe 7 and fixed bracket 8, the steam jet head 6 is cylindric, and the bottom size shape of itself and the flexible nanubrium 1
Match and be connected to and be mutually permanently connected, the steam jet head 6 is fixed with the circle of coaxial arrangement with the junction periphery of flexible nanubrium 1
The fixation bracket 8 of ring flat-plate shape is fixed with along the fixed bracket 8 between 6 bottom of steam jet head in the steam jet head 6
The steam jet pipe 7 communicated with the steam jet head 6;The hydraulic cylinder 12 is fixed on the vertical side arm of hoist structure, is stretched
The end of cylinder is fixed on 5 upper surface of sealing cover;The food tray fixed ring 2 be circular ring shape, inside be provided with an annular groove,
The scraper ring 3 is equipped in the annular groove, 2 lower end of food tray fixed ring is fixed with to match with its outer circumference surface diameter
Cylinder 9, the sealing cover 5 is circular ring shape, the cylinder 9 pass through 5 the center point of sealing cover be provided with it is straight with the cylinder 9
The circular hole of diameter size matching is simultaneously mutually permanently connected;Steam blowing entrance 11, the steam blowing entrance are provided on the cylinder 9
11 are connected with steam blowing delivery pipe 10.
In addition, the food tray fixed ring 2, scraper ring 3 and flexible nanubrium 1 are coaxially disposed, and the diameter of the scraper ring 3 is small
In the diameter of flexible 1 excircle of nanubrium, scraping effect is improved, the diameter of the excircle of the flexible nanubrium 1 is less than institute
The diameter for stating 2 inner ring circumference of food tray fixed ring avoids the friction of food tray fixed ring 2 Yu the flexible nanubrium 1, reduces abrasion.
Diameter of a circle where the diameter of the fixed bracket 8 is greater than 9 excircle of cylinder plays the upper of the limitation flexible nanubrium 1
Lift is from avoiding steam jet head 6 and both cylinder 9 has mutual extruding force to cause the case where leading to deformation under long-term work
Occur, the diameter of the cylinder 9 is greater than the diameter of the flexible nanubrium 1, so that cylinder 9 and food tray fixed ring 2 form one clearly
Chamber wash.The steam jet pipe 7 is cylindrical shape, there is 1-3 row, and every row has 6 steam jet pipes 7 being located in same level and equalization
Angle is horizontally fixed on 6 excircle of steam jet head, and 6 bottom of steam jet head is provided with and 7 diameter of steam jet pipe
Identical steam (vapor) outlet.The sum of diameter of the double length of the steam jet pipe 7 and the steam jet head 6 is less than oil tank outage diameter,
The diameter of the sealing cover 5 is greater than oil tank outage diameter.
In use, starting hoist structure, after flexible nanubrium is dropped to tank car tank mouth by hoisting-chain, utilization is hydraulic
Sealing cover is tightly sealed tank car tank mouth by the thrust of cylinder, and steam, the steam warp are then passed through into flexible nanubrium
After flexible nanubrium enters steam jet head and steam jet pipe, the viscous crude condensed in tank car is sprayed to, is heated, fusing condensation viscous crude, just
In unloading.After condensing viscous crude fusing in tank car, closing is passed through the steam being passed through in flexible nanubrium, opens purging steam, blows
It sweeps and successively enters the cleaning being made of cylinder and food tray fixed ring after steam blowing delivery pipe and steam blowing entrance with steam
In room, flexible nanubrium is then risen by hoisting-chain, the flexible nanubrium is during rising, when through in the purge chamber,
It is purged by purging steam of being passed through of steam blowing entrance, is fallen after the oil product adhered on flexible nanubrium is blown down to steam jet head
Enter in tank car or connect on oil bucket, when the fixed bracket and the cylinders contact, closing is blown by what steam blowing entrance was passed through
Steam is swept, ensure that the neat and tidy of flexible nanubrium, so as to avoid mixing between different oil products, is realized to different oil products
It is heated, without just can be carried out the heating operation to different oil products again after being cleaned again.And it realizes to viscous
It is attached to the recycling and reusing of the oil product on flexible nanubrium, reduces the waste of resource, and improves production efficiency, reduces cost.
Schematically the present invention and embodiments thereof are described above, description is not limiting, institute in attached drawing
What is shown is also one of embodiments of the present invention, and actual structure is not limited to this.So if the common skill of this field
Art personnel are enlightened by it, without departing from the spirit of the invention, are not inventively designed and the technical solution
Similar frame mode and embodiment, are within the scope of protection of the invention.
Claims (1)
1. a kind of oil filling riser plumbing arm mechanism, including flexible nanubrium (1) and sealing cover (5), it is characterised in that: further include food tray fixed ring
(2), scraper ring (3), cylinder (9), spray vapour device and hydraulic cylinder (12), flexible nanubrium (1) upper end and hoist structure
Connection, and steam is connected in it, the lower end of the flexible nanubrium (1) is equipped with spray vapour device, and the spray vapour device includes steam jet head
(6), steam jet pipe (7) and fixation bracket (8), the steam jet head (6) is cylindric, and the bottom of itself and the flexible nanubrium (1)
Size shape matches and is connected to and is mutually permanently connected, and the steam jet head (6) and the junction periphery of flexible nanubrium (1) are fixed with
The fixation bracket (8) of the Circular Plate shape of coaxial arrangement, in the steam jet head (6) along the fixed bracket (8) to down toward the spray
The steam jet pipe (7) communicated with the steam jet head (6) is fixed between vapour head (6) bottom;The hydraulic cylinder (12) is fixed on pneumatically
On the vertical side arm of hoisting mechanism, the end of telescoping cylinder is fixed on the sealing cover (5) upper surface;The food tray fixed ring
(2) be circular ring shape, inside be provided with an annular groove, be equipped with the scraper ring (3) in the annular groove, the food tray fixed ring
(2) lower end is fixed with the cylinder (9) to match with its outer circumference surface diameter, and the sealing cover (5) is circular ring shape, the cylinder
(9) circular hole to match with the cylinder (9) diameter that the sealing cover (5) the center point is provided with and the company of being fixed to each other are passed through
It connects;It is provided with steam blowing entrance (11) on the cylinder (9), the steam blowing entrance (11) is connected with steam blowing delivery pipe
(10);
The food tray fixed ring (2), scraper ring (3) and flexible nanubrium (1) coaxial arrangement, and the diameter of the scraper ring (3) is small
It is less than the food tray fixed ring in the diameter of the diameter of flexible nanubrium (1) excircle, the excircle of the flexible nanubrium (1)
(2) diameter of inner ring circumference;The diameter of the fixed bracket (8) is greater than diameter of a circle where the cylinder (9) excircle, described
The diameter of cylinder (9) is greater than the diameter of the flexible nanubrium (1);
The steam jet pipe (7) is cylindrical shape, there is 1-3 row, and every row has 6 steam jet pipes (7) being located in same level simultaneously
Impartial angle is horizontally fixed on the steam jet head (6) excircle, and steam jet head (6) bottom is provided with and the steam jet pipe
(7) the identical steam (vapor) outlet of diameter;
The sum of the double length of the steam jet pipe (7) and the diameter of the steam jet head (6) are less than oil tank outage diameter, the sealing
The diameter for covering (5) is greater than oil tank outage diameter.
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