CN214998246U - Pump body subassembly - Google Patents

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CN214998246U
CN214998246U CN202120232972.9U CN202120232972U CN214998246U CN 214998246 U CN214998246 U CN 214998246U CN 202120232972 U CN202120232972 U CN 202120232972U CN 214998246 U CN214998246 U CN 214998246U
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孟祥猛
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The utility model provides a pump body component, which comprises a pump body and a pump filling barrel, wherein the pump body is provided with a flow passage cavity and a first communication port communicated with the flow passage cavity, and the pump body is used for conveying auxiliary agents in a plurality of agent filling barrels into an auxiliary agent tank; the pump filling cylinder is connected with the pump body and is communicated with the overflowing cavity through a first communication port, and pump filling liquid is stored in the pump filling cylinder; when the pump body is communicated with one of the other agent containing barrels, pump filling liquid in the pump filling barrel flows into the overflowing cavity so as to perform pump filling operation on the pump body. The utility model provides a receive the agent pump among the prior art and lead to the problem of operating personnel and auxiliary agent contact through artifical manual pump priming.

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Pump body subassembly
Technical Field
The utility model relates to an oil refining chemical industry technical field particularly, relates to a pump body subassembly's institutional advancement.
Background
In the prior art, in the oil refining chemical production process, the agent collecting operation is performed on the auxiliary agent through the requirement, namely, the auxiliary agent in the agent containing barrel is conveyed to the auxiliary agent tank through the agent collecting pump, however, no matter a hand-operated pump is used for carrying out the agent collecting operation or a centrifugal pump is used for carrying out the agent collecting operation, the agent collecting pump is easy to evacuate during the process of switching a pipeline of a pump body communicated with the agent containing barrel to another agent containing barrel, the service life of the agent collecting pump is seriously influenced in the long-term use process, even the agent collecting pump is damaged, the pump filling operation can be performed manually in order to prevent the evacuation phenomenon of the agent collecting pump, and the manual pump filling needs an operator to be in contact with the auxiliary agent, and toxic auxiliary agent can threaten the health of the operator.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model discloses a main aim at provides a pump body subassembly to the receipts agent pump among the solution prior art leads to the problem of operating personnel and auxiliary agent contact through artifical manual pump priming.
In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model provides a pump body assembly, which comprises a pump body and a pump filling barrel, wherein the pump body is provided with a flow passage cavity and a first communication port communicated with the flow passage cavity, and the pump body is used for conveying auxiliary agents in a plurality of agent filling barrels into an auxiliary agent tank; the pump filling cylinder is connected with the pump body and is communicated with the overflowing cavity through a first communication port, and pump filling liquid is stored in the pump filling cylinder; when the pump body is communicated with one of the other agent containing barrels, pump filling liquid in the pump filling barrel flows into the overflowing cavity so as to perform pump filling operation on the pump body.
Furthermore, the pump filling cylinder is positioned above the pump body, and the pump filling liquid in the pump filling cylinder flows into the overflowing cavity under the action of the gravity of the pump filling cylinder.
Further, the pump body assembly further comprises a first communication pipe, the first end of the first communication pipe is communicated with the pump filling cylinder, and the second end of the first communication pipe is communicated with the first communication port.
Further, the pump body assembly further comprises a valve body, the valve body is arranged on the first communicating pipe and used for communicating the pump filling cylinder with the pump body, or the valve body is used for disconnecting the pump filling cylinder with the pump body.
Further, the pump filling liquid is liquid with the same type as the auxiliary agent in the agent filling barrel.
Further, the pump body subassembly includes a plurality of dress agent bucket groups, and an assembly agent bucket group includes a plurality of dress agent buckets, and each assembly agent bucket group is used for holding the auxiliary agent of different models respectively.
Furthermore, a plurality of pump filling cylinders are arranged, are connected with the pump body and correspond to the assembling agent barrel groups one by one, and are used for storing the auxiliary agents with the same type numbers as the auxiliary agents in the assembling agent barrel groups.
Furthermore, first communicating pipe is a plurality of, and a plurality of first communicating pipe set up with a plurality of pump priming section of thick bamboo one-to-one, and the valve body is a plurality of, and a plurality of valve bodies set up with a plurality of first communicating pipe one-to-one.
Furthermore, first intercommunication mouth is a plurality of, and a plurality of first intercommunication mouths set up with a plurality of first communication pipes one-to-one.
Further, the pump body still includes second intercommunication mouth and third intercommunication mouth, and second intercommunication mouth and third intercommunication mouth all with overflow the chamber intercommunication, and wherein, second intercommunication mouth is through second communicating pipe and dress agent bucket intercommunication, and the third intercommunication mouth is used for communicateing with the auxiliary agent jar.
Further, the pump body assembly further comprises a heat insulation sleeve, and the heat insulation sleeve is used for wrapping at least one of the pump body, the pump filling cylinder and the first communication pipe.
Use the technical scheme of the utility model, a pump body subassembly with irritate a pump section of thick bamboo is provided, irritate the pump operation through irritating a pump section of thick bamboo to the pump body, has liberated the staff to ensure that operating personnel's is healthy.
Specifically, the pump filling barrel is connected with the pump body, and meanwhile, the pump filling barrel is communicated with the overflowing cavity through the first communication port on the pump body, so that after the pump body finishes pumping operation on one of the plurality of agent containing barrels, in the process that the pump body needs to be communicated with one of the other agent containing barrels, as the overflowing cavity is in a low-pressure state, the pump filling fluid in the pump filling barrel flows into the overflowing cavity, the pump body is prevented from being evacuated, the working reliability of the pump body is ensured, and the pump body is ensured to have enough service life; in addition, because irritate a pump section of thick bamboo and can carry out the pump priming operation to the pump body by oneself, need not artifical manual pump priming, liberated both hands, thereby when avoiding consumeing great labour, still promoted the efficiency of receiving the agent of pump body subassembly, avoided operating personnel and auxiliary agent contact, thereby ensure that operating personnel's is healthy can be ensured, can also avoid operating personnel to appear the unrestrained phenomenon of auxiliary agent when manual pump priming, thereby avoided the auxiliary agent to cause serious pollution to the environment.
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The accompanying drawings, which form a part of the present application, are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:
fig. 1 shows a schematic structural view of a pump body assembly and a cartridge according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention;
wherein the figures include the following reference numerals:
1. filling an agent barrel; 10. a pump body; 11. a second communication port; 12. a third communication port; 20. filling a pump cylinder; 30. a first communication pipe; 40. a valve body; 50. and a second communication pipe.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. The following description of at least one exemplary embodiment is merely illustrative in nature and is in no way intended to limit the invention, its application, or uses. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative efforts belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
In order to solve the problem that receipts agent pump among the prior art leads to operating personnel and auxiliary agent contact through artifical manual pump priming, the utility model provides a pump body subassembly.
As shown in fig. 1, the pump body assembly includes a pump body 10 and a pump barrel 20, the pump body 10 has an overflowing cavity and a first communication port communicated with the overflowing cavity, and the pump body 10 is used for conveying the additives in the plurality of additive containing barrels 1 into an additive tank; the pump filling cylinder 20 is connected with the pump body 10, the pump filling cylinder 20 is communicated with the overflowing cavity through a first communication port, and pump filling liquid is stored in the pump filling cylinder 20; wherein, the pump body 10 accomplishes the pump suction operation to a dress agent bucket 1 in a plurality of dress agent buckets 1, and when the pump body 10 communicates with a dress agent bucket 1 in the other dress agent buckets 1, the pump-filling liquid in the pump-filling section of thick bamboo 20 flows into and overflows the intracavity to the pump-filling operation is carried out to pump body 10.
The application provides a pump body subassembly with irritate pump barrel 20, irritates the pump operation through irritating pump barrel 20 to pump body 10, has liberated the staff to ensure that operating personnel's is healthy.
Specifically, the pump filling cylinder 20 is connected with the pump body 10, and meanwhile, the pump filling cylinder 20 is communicated with the overflowing cavity through the first communication port on the pump body 10, so that after the pump body 10 finishes pumping operation on one of the plurality of agent containing barrels 1, in the process of communicating the pump body 10 with one of the other agent containing barrels 1, as the overflowing cavity is in a low-pressure state, the pump filling liquid in the pump filling cylinder 20 flows into the overflowing cavity, the pump body 10 is prevented from being evacuated, the working reliability of the pump body 10 is ensured, and the pump body 10 is ensured to have enough service life; in addition, because pump priming barrel 20 can carry out the pump priming operation to pump body 10 by oneself, need not artifical manual pump priming, liberated both hands, thereby when avoiding consuming great labour, still promoted the efficiency of receiving the agent of pump body subassembly, avoided operating personnel and auxiliary agent contact, thereby ensure that operating personnel's healthy can be ensured, can also avoid operating personnel to appear the unrestrained phenomenon of auxiliary agent when manual pump priming, thereby avoided the auxiliary agent to cause serious pollution to the environment.
As shown in fig. 1, the pump priming cartridge 20 is located above the pump body 10, and the priming solution in the pump priming cartridge 20 flows into the flow-through cavity under its own weight. Thus, in the process that the pump body 10 is switched to the filling agent barrel 1 communicated with the pump body, the overflowing cavity is in a low-pressure state, a small part of gas enters air from an inlet of the pump body 10, which is used for being communicated with the filling agent barrel 1, but the flowing of the filling pump liquid in the filling pump barrel 20 into the overflowing cavity under the action of the gravity of the filling pump liquid is not influenced, and the phenomenon of evacuation of the pump body 10 is avoided.
As shown in fig. 1, the pump body assembly further includes a first communication pipe 30, a first end of the first communication pipe 30 is communicated with the pump filling cylinder 20, and a second end of the first communication pipe 30 is communicated with the first communication port. Therefore, the reliability of the communication between the pump filling cylinder 20 and the overflowing cavity is ensured, so that the pump filling liquid in the pump filling cylinder 20 can smoothly flow into the overflowing cavity through the first communication pipe 30, and the phenomenon of liquid leakage of the pump filling liquid in the pump filling cylinder 20 is avoided.
As shown in fig. 1, the pump body assembly further includes a valve body 40, the valve body 40 is disposed on the first communication pipe 30, the valve body 40 is used for communicating the pump cartridge 20 and the pump body 10, or the valve body 40 is used for disconnecting the pump cartridge 20 and the pump body 10. Like this, when using the pump body subassembly for the first time, open valve body 40 and make pump barrel 20 and pump body 10 communicate, adopt the mode of pump entry to carry out the pump priming, after pump body 10 starts, the first intercommunication mouth of pump body 10 fills partial pump priming liquid to the interior automatic filling of pump barrel 20, follow-up will not need the mode of pump entry pump priming once more, because fill partial pump priming liquid in pump barrel 20, the in-process of pump body 10 switching rather than the filling agent bucket 1 who communicates, the pump priming liquid in pump barrel 20 flows to overflowing the intracavity and in order to carry out the pump priming operation, after pump body 10 accomplishes the switching operation rather than the filling agent bucket 1 who communicates, pump pumping operation is carried out, can fill pump priming liquid to pump barrel 20 again automatically, so relapse, thereby avoid appearing the phenomenon of managing to find time.
It should be noted that, in the present application, when the pump body assembly is stopped, the valve body 40 is closed to disconnect the pump cartridge 20 and the pump body 10, and then the pump body 10 stops working; at the beginning of the pump body assembly, the valve body 40 is opened to communicate the cartridge 20 with the pump body 10, and the pump body 10 is activated.
It should be noted that, in the present application, the pump filling liquid is a liquid of the same type as the additive in the filling agent barrel 1. Thus, the auxiliary agent is prevented from being polluted because the auxiliary agent and the pump filling liquid are different liquids.
It should be noted that, in this application, when the agent operation need be received to the same pump body subassembly when the auxiliary agent of multiple different models, in order to avoid each auxiliary agent to appear mixing phenomenon, optionally, the pump body subassembly includes a plurality of dress agent bucket groups, and an assembly agent bucket group includes a plurality of dress agent buckets 1, and each assembly agent bucket group is used for holding the auxiliary agent of different models respectively. In this way, the operational reliability of the pump body assembly is ensured.
Optionally, the number of the pump filling cylinders 20 is multiple, the multiple pump filling cylinders 20 are all connected with the pump body 10, the multiple pump filling cylinders 20 and the multiple assembly agent barrel groups are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and each pump filling cylinder 20 is used for storing an auxiliary agent with the same type number as that in the assembly agent barrel 1 in each assembly agent barrel group. Thus, one pump cylinder 20 is ensured to correspond to one type of auxiliary agent, and the pump body assembly is ensured to respectively receive the auxiliary agents.
Of course, there are a plurality of first communication pipes 30, a plurality of first communication pipes 30 are disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of pumping cylinders 20, a plurality of valve bodies 40 are disposed, and a plurality of valve bodies 40 are disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of first communication pipes 30. Thus, the pump priming operation of each pump priming cylinder 20 is ensured to be reliable by ensuring that each pump priming cylinder 20 does not interfere with each other.
The first communication ports are plural, and the plural first communication ports and the plural first communication pipes 30 are provided in one-to-one correspondence. Thus, one communication port corresponds to one first communication pipe 30, and the phenomenon of mixing of various auxiliary agents is avoided.
As shown in fig. 1, the pump body 10 further includes a second communicating port 11 and a third communicating port 12, both the second communicating port 11 and the third communicating port 12 are communicated with the overflowing chamber, wherein the second communicating port 11 is communicated with the agent containing barrel 1 through a second communicating pipe 50, and the third communicating port 12 is used for being communicated with the auxiliary agent tank. In this way, the communication reliability of the overflow chamber of the pump body 10 and the agent containing barrel 1 is ensured, and the communication reliability of the overflow chamber of the pump body 10 and the auxiliary agent tank is ensured.
It should be noted that, in the present application, the length of the first communicating pipe 30 is smaller than the length of the second communicating pipe 50, so that the priming liquid in the priming pump barrel 20 can flow into the overflowing cavity in time.
It should be noted that, in the present application, the second communication pipe 50 is a hose, which is convenient for an operator to take out the second communication pipe 50 from one of the agent containing barrels 1 to move to another of the agent containing barrels 1.
It should be noted that, in this application, in a refinery in the north, because the temperature is low in the winter in the north, in order to avoid the phenomenon of additive congealing in the course of collecting the agent, it is necessary to keep warm to the pump body assembly, optionally, the pump body assembly further includes a heat-insulating sleeve, and the heat-insulating sleeve is used for wrapping at least one of the pump body 10, the pump priming barrel 20 and the first communication pipe 30. Therefore, the auxiliary agent can be ensured to be in a flowing state all the time in the agent collecting operation process of the pump body assembly, and the auxiliary agent is prevented from being frozen.
Optionally, the auxiliary agent tank is at normal pressure or slightly positive pressure.
It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
Unless specifically stated otherwise, the relative arrangement of the components and steps, the numerical expressions, and numerical values set forth in these embodiments do not limit the scope of the present invention. Meanwhile, it should be understood that the sizes of the respective portions shown in the drawings are not drawn in an actual proportional relationship for the convenience of description. Techniques, methods, and apparatus known to those of ordinary skill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail but are intended to be part of the specification where appropriate. In all examples shown and discussed herein, any particular value should be construed as merely illustrative, and not limiting. Thus, other examples of the exemplary embodiments may have different values. It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, further discussion thereof is not required in subsequent figures.
Spatially relative terms, such as "above … …," "above … …," "above … …," "above," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one device or feature's spatial relationship to another device or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if a device in the figures is turned over, devices described as "above" or "on" other devices or configurations would then be oriented "below" or "under" the other devices or configurations. Thus, the exemplary term "above … …" can include both an orientation of "above … …" and "below … …". The device may be otherwise variously oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.
It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular is intended to include the plural unless the context clearly dictates otherwise, and it should be further understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification, specify the presence of features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof.
It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. A pump body assembly, comprising:
the additive filling device comprises a pump body (10), wherein the pump body (10) is provided with a overflowing cavity and a first communication port communicated with the overflowing cavity, and the pump body (10) is used for conveying additives in a plurality of additive filling barrels (1) into an additive tank;
the pump filling cylinder (20), the pump filling cylinder (20) is connected with the pump body (10), the pump filling cylinder (20) is communicated with the overflowing cavity through the first communication port, and pump filling liquid is stored in the pump filling cylinder (20);
the pump body (10) finishes pumping operation on one of the plurality of filling agent barrels (1), and when the pump body (10) is communicated with one of the rest filling agent barrels (1) and the filling agent barrel (1), the pump filling liquid in the pump filling barrel (20) flows into the overflowing cavity to perform pump filling operation on the pump body (10).
2. The pump body assembly of claim 1, wherein the pump cartridge (20) is positioned above the pump body (10), and the pumping fluid in the pump cartridge (20) flows into the overflow chamber under its own weight.
3. The pump body assembly of claim 2, further comprising:
the first end of the first communication pipe (30) is communicated with the pump filling cylinder (20), and the second end of the first communication pipe (30) is communicated with the first communication port.
4. The pump body assembly of claim 3, further comprising:
the pump comprises a valve body (40), wherein the valve body (40) is arranged on the first communication pipe (30), the valve body (40) is used for communicating the pump filling cylinder (20) with the pump body (10), or the valve body (40) is used for disconnecting the pump filling cylinder (20) with the pump body (10).
5. Pump body assembly according to claim 4, characterized in that the pump priming liquid is a liquid of the same type as the adjuvant in the cartridge (1).
6. The pump body assembly according to claim 5, wherein the pump body assembly comprises a plurality of filling barrel groups, one filling barrel group comprises a plurality of filling barrels (1), and each filling barrel group is used for containing different types of auxiliary agents.
7. The pump body assembly according to claim 6, wherein the pump filling barrel (20) is provided in plurality, the pump filling barrels (20) are connected to the pump body (10), the pump filling barrels (20) are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of groups of the agent filling barrel groups, and each pump filling barrel (20) is used for storing an auxiliary agent with the same type number as that in the agent filling barrel (1) in each group of the agent filling barrel groups.
8. The pump body assembly according to claim 7, wherein the first communication pipe (30) is plural, the plural first communication pipes (30) are provided in one-to-one correspondence with the plural pumping cylinders (20), the valve body (40) is plural, and the plural valve bodies (40) are provided in one-to-one correspondence with the plural first communication pipes (30).
9. The pump body assembly according to claim 8, wherein the first communication port is plural, and the plural first communication ports are provided in one-to-one correspondence with the plural first communication pipes (30).
10. The pump body assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the pump body (10) further comprises a second communication port (11) and a third communication port (12), both the second communication port (11) and the third communication port (12) being in communication with the flow-through chamber, wherein the second communication port (11) is in communication with the dose cartridge (1) through a second communication pipe (50), the third communication port (12) being for communication with the auxiliary agent tank.
11. The pump body assembly of claim 3, further comprising:
the heat insulation sleeve is used for wrapping at least one of the pump body (10), the pump filling cylinder (20) and the first communication pipe (30).
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