CN216741475U - Fracturing head device for fracturing well head of oil exploitation equipment - Google Patents

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CN216741475U
CN216741475U CN202220252940.XU CN202220252940U CN216741475U CN 216741475 U CN216741475 U CN 216741475U CN 202220252940 U CN202220252940 U CN 202220252940U CN 216741475 U CN216741475 U CN 216741475U
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The utility model discloses a fracturing head device for a fracturing wellhead of oil exploitation equipment, which comprises a plate body, a first limiting mechanism and a second limiting mechanism, wherein the plate body is provided with a first limiting mechanism and a second limiting mechanism; plate body: the middle part of the inner part of the plate body is provided with a material conveying through hole, threaded connecting holes are annularly distributed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the plate body, feeding holes are annularly distributed on the outer side surface of the plate body and are communicated with the material conveying through hole, feeding pipelines are annularly distributed on the outer side surface of the plate body and are in one-to-one correspondence with the feeding holes, the feeding pipelines are respectively communicated with adjacent feeding holes, and mounting rings are arranged at the end parts of the feeding pipelines, far away from the material conveying through hole; first stop gear: set up respectively in the inside of collar, this oil development equipment fracturing head device for well head makes things convenient for being connected between whole device and the outside notes material pipeline, reduces the staff and installs and demolish required time to annotating the material pipeline, improves the efficiency of work.

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Fracturing head device for fracturing well head of oil exploitation equipment
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of oil exploitation equipment, in particular to a fracturing head device for a fracturing wellhead of oil exploitation equipment.
Background
Petroleum is an important energy source, compared with coal, the coal-fired boiler has the advantages of large energy density, convenient transportation and storage, and small pollution to the atmosphere after being fired.
In the fracturing process, the most important is the fracturing head, which is an important device installed on the top of a Christmas tree in oil field fracturing operation and used for collecting fracturing fluid of a plurality of pipelines and realizing multi-pipeline injection, and is suitable for large-displacement and high-pressure fracturing operation, and the fracturing head is connected with an external injection pipeline through bolts.
However, the mode of using the bolts to install and dismantle the pipeline and the fracturing head often needs a lot of time, reduces the working efficiency, and is inconvenient to use the fracturing head.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims to overcome the defects in the prior art, provides a fracturing head device for fracturing a wellhead of oil exploitation equipment, reduces the time required by workers for installing and dismantling a material injection pipeline, and can effectively solve the problems in the background art.
In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model provides the following technical scheme: a fracturing head device for fracturing a wellhead of oil exploitation equipment comprises a plate body, a first limiting mechanism and a second limiting mechanism;
plate body: the middle part of the inner part of the plate body is provided with a material conveying through hole, threaded connecting holes are annularly distributed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the plate body, feeding holes are annularly distributed on the outer side surface of the plate body and are communicated with the material conveying through hole, feeding pipelines are annularly distributed on the outer side surface of the plate body and are in one-to-one correspondence with the feeding holes, the feeding pipelines are respectively communicated with adjacent feeding holes, and mounting rings are arranged at the end parts of the feeding pipelines, far away from the material conveying through hole;
first stop gear: are respectively arranged inside the mounting rings;
the second limiting mechanism: set up respectively in the inside of charge-in pipeline, second stop gear's outer end respectively with adjacent collar fixed connection, second stop gear and the cooperation installation of first stop gear make things convenient for being connected between integrated device and the outside notes material pipeline, reduce the staff and install and demolish required time to annotating the material pipeline, avoided the tradition to use a plurality of bolts to install the problem that needs the time length, improve the efficiency of work.
Further, first stop gear includes spring, spout and oblique type stopper, the spout respectively annular distribution in the intrados of collar, the equal sliding connection in inside of spout has oblique type stopper, and the side that collar center was kept away from to oblique type stopper all is equipped with the spring, and the spring respectively with adjacent spout inner wall fixed connection, the outside outwards extraction of restricting the outside pipeline of annotating the material.
Furthermore, first stop gear still includes spacing spout, spacing spout sets up respectively in the inner wall about the spout, and the slider at both ends is connected with adjacent spacing spout sliding connection respectively about the oblique type stopper, the displacement range of restriction oblique type stopper.
Furthermore, first stop gear still includes the ring and connects the rope, the extrados of collar is located to the ring movable sleeve respectively, connects the rope and sets up respectively in the side that the collar center was kept away from to the type stopper to one side, connects the outer end of rope and passes the line hole on adjacent spring inside and the collar respectively and with adjacent ring fixed connection, conveniently demolishs outside notes material pipeline.
Further, the second limiting mechanism comprises a cylinder, a ring groove, a limiting spring, a limiting ring and a material conveying pipe, the ring groove is respectively arranged on the inner arc surface of the feeding pipeline, the limiting ring is connected with the limiting ring in the ring groove in a sliding mode, the limiting ring is installed in a matched mode with the inclined limiting block, the side, close to the feeding hole, of the limiting ring is provided with the material conveying pipe, the outer arc surface of the material conveying pipe is attached to the inner arc surface of the feeding hole, cylinders are distributed between the inner wall, close to the material conveying through hole, of the ring groove and the side surface of the adjacent installation ring in an all-ring mode, the cylinders respectively penetrate through round holes in the limiting ring, the outer arc surface of each cylinder is provided with the limiting spring in a sleeved mode, one end, close to the material conveying through hole, of each limiting spring is fixedly connected with the side surface of the limiting ring, and the position of the material injection pipeline is limited.
Further, the second limiting mechanism further comprises a sealing gasket, the sealing gasket is arranged on the side face, far away from the material conveying through hole, of the limiting ring respectively, and the outer edge of the sealing gasket is provided with a yielding hole matched with the cylinder for installation, so that the sealing gasket seals between the material injection pipeline and the material feeding pipeline.
Furthermore, the upper surface and the lower surface of the plate body are respectively provided with a sealing ring, and the joint of the material conveying through hole and an external pipeline is sealed.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that: this oil development equipment fracturing well head is with first device of fracturing has following benefit:
when in use, the integral device is connected in series in the middle of an external pipeline through a threaded connecting hole, the material injection pipeline is inserted into the integral inside formed by the mounting ring and the feeding pipeline, after the material injection pipeline is inserted, the position of the material injection pipeline is limited through the matching of the limiting ring and the inclined limiting block, in the use process, materials conveyed by the material injection pipeline sequentially pass through the material conveying pipe, the feeding pipeline and the feeding hole to enter the inside of the material conveying through hole, so that the materials in a plurality of material conveying pipes are injected simultaneously, the integral device is suitable for large-displacement and high-pressure fracturing operation, when the material injection pipeline is disassembled, the circular ring is moved, so that the circular ring drives the connecting rope to move, the inclined limiting block is further pulled to move towards the direction far away from the center of the mounting ring, the material injection pipeline can be normally pulled out, the connection between the integral device and the external material injection pipeline is convenient, and the time required by workers for installing and disassembling the material injection pipeline is reduced, the problem that the installation of a plurality of bolts needs a long time in the prior art is solved, and the working efficiency is improved.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the inside of a feed through hole according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the interior of the feed conduit of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged schematic view of the structure at A of the present invention.
In the figure: 1 plate body, 2 defeated material through-hole, 3 sealing rings, 4 threaded connection hole, 5 feed ports, 6 charge-in pipeline, 7 collar, 8 first stop gear, 81 rings, 82 connect rope, 83 spring, 84 spout, 85 spacing spout, 86 oblique type stopper, 9 second stop gear, 91 cylinder, 92 ring channel, 93 spacing spring, 94 spacing ring, 95 sealed pad, 96 conveying pipeline.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-4, the present embodiment provides a technical solution: a fracturing head device for fracturing a wellhead of oil exploitation equipment comprises a plate body 1, a first limiting mechanism 8 and a second limiting mechanism 9;
plate body 1: the middle part of the plate body is provided with a material conveying through hole 2 to provide space for conveying materials, threaded connecting holes 4 are distributed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the plate body 1 in an annular mode, so that external pipelines can be conveniently connected, feeding holes 5 are distributed on the outer side surface of the plate body 1 in an annular mode, the feeding holes 5 are communicated with the material conveying through hole 2, feeding pipelines 6 are distributed on the outer side surface of the plate body 1 in an annular mode, the feeding pipelines 6 are in one-to-one correspondence with the feeding holes 5, the feeding pipelines 6 are respectively communicated with the adjacent feeding holes 5 to provide space for the materials to enter, mounting rings 7 are arranged at the end parts, far away from the material conveying through hole 2, of the feeding pipelines 6 to provide space for the arrangement of a first limiting mechanism 8, sealing rings 3 are arranged on the upper surface and the lower surface of the plate body 1 to seal the connecting position of the material conveying through hole 2 and the external pipelines;
first stop gear 8: the first limiting mechanisms 8 are respectively arranged inside the mounting ring 7, each first limiting mechanism 8 comprises a spring 83, a sliding groove 84 and an inclined limiting block 86, the sliding grooves 84 are respectively and annularly distributed on the inner arc surface of the mounting ring 7, the inclined limiting blocks 86 are respectively and slidably connected inside the sliding grooves 84, the side surfaces, far away from the center of the mounting ring 7, of the inclined limiting blocks 86 are respectively provided with the springs 83, the springs 83 are respectively and fixedly connected with the inner walls of the adjacent sliding grooves 84, in the process of inserting the material injection pipeline, the inclined limiting blocks 86 are retracted into the sliding grooves 84 under the action of a disc at the tail end of the material injection pipeline due to the inclined surfaces at the tail end of the inclined limiting blocks 86, the springs 83 contract, after the disc at the tail end of the material injection pipeline is inserted for a certain distance, the inclined limiting blocks 86 are reset under the action of the elasticity of the springs 83, the vertical planes of the inclined limiting blocks 86 are contacted with the side surfaces of the disc at the tail end of the material injection pipeline to limit the outward extraction of the material injection pipeline, the first limiting mechanism 8 further comprises limiting sliding grooves 85, the limiting sliding grooves 85 are respectively arranged on the left inner wall and the right inner wall of the sliding groove 84, the sliding blocks at the left end and the right end of the inclined limiting block 86 are respectively connected with the adjacent limiting sliding grooves 85 in a sliding manner, the first limiting mechanism 8 further comprises a circular ring 81 and a connecting rope 82, the circular ring 81 is respectively movably sleeved on the outer arc surface of the mounting ring 7, the connecting rope 82 is respectively arranged on the side surface of the inclined limiting block 86 far away from the center of the mounting ring 7, the outer end of the connecting rope 82 respectively penetrates through the inner part of the adjacent spring 83 and the wire hole on the mounting ring 7 and is fixedly connected with the adjacent circular ring 81, when the material injection pipeline is dismantled, the circular ring 81 is moved, so that the circular ring 81 drives the connecting rope 82 to move, further pulling the inclined limiting block 86 to move towards the direction far away from the center of the mounting ring 7, so that the material injection pipeline can be normally pulled out;
second stop gear 9: respectively arranged inside the feeding pipeline 6, the outer end of the second limiting mechanism 9 is respectively fixedly connected with the adjacent mounting ring 7, the second limiting mechanism 9 is installed in cooperation with the first limiting mechanism 8, the second limiting mechanism 9 comprises a cylinder 91, a ring-shaped groove 92, a limiting spring 93, a limiting ring 94 and a material conveying pipe 96, the ring-shaped groove 92 is respectively arranged on the inner arc surface of the feeding pipeline 6, the limiting ring 94 is respectively connected in the ring-shaped groove 92 in a sliding manner, the limiting ring 94 is installed in cooperation with an inclined limiting block 86, the material conveying pipe 96 is respectively arranged on the side surface of the limiting ring 94 close to the feeding hole 5, the outer arc surface of the material conveying pipe 96 is attached to the inner arc surface of the feeding hole 5, the cylinders 91 are respectively distributed between the inner wall of the ring-shaped groove 92 close to the material conveying through hole 2 and the side surface of the adjacent mounting ring 7 in a ring-shaped manner, the cylinders 91 respectively pass through round holes on the limiting ring 94, the outer arc surfaces of the cylinders 91 are respectively sleeved with the limiting springs 93, one ends of the limiting springs 93 close to the material conveying through hole 2 are respectively fixedly connected with the inner wall of the ring-shaped groove 92, one end that defeated material through-hole 2 was kept away from to spacing spring 93 respectively with spacing ring 94's side fixed connection, the side that inserts of annotating the material pipeline will promote spacing ring 94 and remove to the direction that is close to defeated material through-hole 2, make spacing spring 93 shrink and produce elasticity, under spacing spring 93's elastic action, make spacing ring 94 and the side of annotating the material pipeline closely laminate, position through with oblique type stopper 86 to annotating the material pipeline is restricted, second stop gear 9 still includes sealed pad 95, sealed pad 95 sets up respectively in the side that defeated material through-hole 2 was kept away from to spacing ring 94, sealed pad 95 outer edge all is equipped with the hole of stepping down with cylinder 91 cooperation installation, clearance department between annotating material pipeline and charge-in pipeline 6 seals.
The working principle of the fracturing head device for the fracturing wellhead of the oil exploitation equipment provided by the utility model is as follows: when the device is used, the integral device is connected in series with the middle part of an external pipeline through the threaded connecting hole 4, the material injection pipeline is inserted into the integral device formed by the mounting ring 7 and the material feeding pipeline 6, the inclined limiting block 86 is folded into the chute 84 under the action of the disc at the tail end of the material injection pipeline due to the inclined surface at the tail end of the inclined limiting block 86 in the insertion process of the material injection pipeline, the spring 83 contracts, after the disc at the tail end of the material injection pipeline is inserted for a certain distance, the inclined limiting block 86 is reset under the action of the elastic force of the spring 83, the vertical plane of the inclined limiting block 86 is contacted with the side surface of the disc at the tail end of the material injection pipeline to limit the outward direction of the material injection pipeline, the limiting ring 94 is pushed to move towards the direction close to the material conveying through hole 2 by the insertion of the material injection pipeline to contract the elastic force of the limiting spring 93, and the limiting ring 94 is tightly attached to the side surface of the material injection pipeline under the action of the elastic force of the limiting spring 93, restrict the position of annotating the material pipeline through the cooperation with oblique type stopper 86, the same reason, be connected other conveying pipeline with charge-in pipeline 6 respectively, in the use, the material of annotating the material pipeline and carrying will loop through conveying pipeline 96, charge-in pipeline 6 and feed port 5 get into the inside of defeated material through-hole 2, make the inside material of many conveying pipelines pour into simultaneously, be applicable to big discharge capacity, high pressure fracturing operation, when will annotating the material pipeline and demolish, remove ring 81, make ring 81 drive connect rope 82 and remove, and then stimulate oblique type stopper 86 and remove to the direction of keeping away from the center of collar 7, make the material pipeline of annotating can normally extract.
The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes, which are made by using the contents of the present specification and the accompanying drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides an oil development equipment fracturing well head is with fracturing head device which characterized in that: comprises a plate body (1), a first limiting mechanism (8) and a second limiting mechanism (9);
plate body (1): a material conveying through hole (2) is formed in the middle of the plate body (1), threaded connecting holes (4) are distributed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the plate body (1) in an annular mode, feeding holes (5) are distributed on the outer side surface of the plate body (1) in an annular mode, the feeding holes (5) are communicated with the material conveying through hole (2), feeding pipelines (6) are distributed on the outer side surface of the plate body (1) in an annular mode, the feeding pipelines (6) correspond to the feeding holes (5) one by one, the feeding pipelines (6) are communicated with the adjacent feeding holes (5) respectively, and mounting rings (7) are arranged at the end portions, far away from the material conveying through hole (2), of the feeding pipelines (6);
first limit mechanism (8): are respectively arranged inside the mounting ring (7);
second limit mechanism (9): are respectively arranged inside the feeding pipeline (6), the outer ends of the second limiting mechanisms (9) are respectively and fixedly connected with the adjacent mounting rings (7), and the second limiting mechanisms (9) are installed in a matching way with the first limiting mechanisms (8).
2. The fracturing head device for the fracturing wellhead of the oil exploitation equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein: first stop gear (8) include spring (83), spout (84) and oblique type stopper (86), spout (84) respectively the annular distribution in the intrados of collar (7), the equal sliding connection in inside of spout (84) has oblique type stopper (86), and the side at collar (7) center is kept away from to oblique type stopper (86) all is equipped with spring (83), spring (83) respectively with adjacent spout (84) inner wall fixed connection.
3. The fracturing head device for the fracturing wellhead of the oil exploitation equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein: first stop gear (8) still include spacing spout (85), spacing spout (85) set up respectively in inner wall about spout (84), and the slider at both ends is connected with adjacent spacing spout (85) sliding connection respectively about oblique type stopper (86).
4. The fracturing head device for the fracturing wellhead of the oil exploitation equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein: first stop gear (8) still include ring (81) and connect rope (82), the extrados of installing ring (7) is located in movable sleeve respectively in ring (81), connects rope (82) and sets up respectively in oblique type stopper (86) and keeps away from the side at installing ring (7) center, connects the outer end of rope (82) and passes adjacent spring (83) inside and the line hole on installing ring (7) respectively and with adjacent ring (81) fixed connection.
5. The fracturing head device for the fracturing wellhead of the oil exploitation equipment as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the second limiting mechanism (9) comprises a cylinder (91), an annular groove (92), a limiting spring (93), a limiting ring (94) and a conveying pipe (96), the annular groove (92) is respectively arranged on the inner arc surfaces of the feeding pipelines (6), the limiting ring (94) is connected in the annular groove (92) in a sliding manner, the limiting ring (94) is installed in a matching manner with an inclined limiting block (86), the conveying pipe (96) is arranged on the side surface of the limiting ring (94) close to the feeding hole (5), the outer arc surfaces of the conveying pipe (96) are attached to the inner arc surfaces of the feeding holes (5), the cylinders (91) are uniformly distributed between the inner wall of the annular groove (92) close to the conveying through hole (2) and the side surface of the adjacent mounting ring (7) in an annular manner, the cylinders (91) respectively penetrate through round holes on the limiting ring (94), the outer arc surfaces of the cylinders (91) are respectively sleeved with the limiting spring (93), one end of the limiting spring (93) close to the conveying through hole (2) is respectively fixedly connected with the inner wall of the annular groove (92), one end of the limiting spring (93) far away from the material conveying through hole (2) is fixedly connected with the side surface of the limiting ring (94) respectively.
6. The fracturing head device for the fracturing wellhead of the oil exploitation equipment as claimed in claim 5, wherein: second stop gear (9) still include sealed pad (95), sealed pad (95) set up respectively in spacing ring (94) and keep away from the side of defeated material through-hole (2), sealed pad (95) outer edge all is equipped with the hole of stepping down of installing with cylinder (91) cooperation.
7. The fracturing head device for the fracturing wellhead of the oil exploitation equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the upper surface and the lower surface of the plate body (1) are provided with sealing rings (3).
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