EP0683696A1 - Buse a jet plat pour un appareil de nettoyage a haute pression - Google Patents

Buse a jet plat pour un appareil de nettoyage a haute pression

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EP0683696A1
EP0683696A1 EP94906223A EP94906223A EP0683696A1 EP 0683696 A1 EP0683696 A1 EP 0683696A1 EP 94906223 A EP94906223 A EP 94906223A EP 94906223 A EP94906223 A EP 94906223A EP 0683696 A1 EP0683696 A1 EP 0683696A1
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outlet opening
jet nozzle
diameter
flat jet
nozzle according
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EP0683696B1 (fr
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Wilhelm Eisenmann
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Alfred Kaercher SE and Co KG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
    • B05B1/02—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops, or having an outlet of particular shape
    • B05B1/04—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops, or having an outlet of particular shape in flat form, e.g. fan-like, sheet-like
    • B05B1/048—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops, or having an outlet of particular shape in flat form, e.g. fan-like, sheet-like having a flow conduit with, immediately behind the outlet orifice, an elongated cross section, e.g. of oval or elliptic form, of which the major axis is perpendicular to the plane of the jet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
    • B05B1/02—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops, or having an outlet of particular shape
    • B05B1/04—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops, or having an outlet of particular shape in flat form, e.g. fan-like, sheet-like
    • B05B1/042—Outlets having two planes of symmetry perpendicular to each other, one of them defining the plane of the jet

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  • the invention relates to a flat jet nozzle for a high-pressure cleaning device with an outlet opening and a flow channel arranged upstream thereof and flowing into it.
  • Such flat jet nozzles are used in order to be able to sweep areas to be cleaned with a fanned out cleaning jet, which on the one hand should have a uniform cleaning effect as possible over the entire jet width and on the other hand this cleaning action if possible over different spacing areas of the nozzle from of the surface to be cleaned.
  • a fanned out cleaning jet which on the one hand should have a uniform cleaning effect as possible over the entire jet width and on the other hand this cleaning action if possible over different spacing areas of the nozzle from of the surface to be cleaned.
  • the flat jet is fanned out as little as possible transversely to the direction of fanning out.
  • the pressure distribution inside the jet must be designed so that the impact velocities of the liquid are as constant as possible over the entire cross section.
  • a flat jet with the desired properties can be produced if both the flow channel in the nozzle and the outlet opening have a circular cross section, that is if they are not designed according to the concept of the elongated outlet opening, on the contrary, they are designed in the way that is customary in the production of rotationally symmetrical compact beams.
  • the compact jet is converted into a fanned-out flat jet by the deflecting surfaces arranged in the lateral extensions, which introduce part of the amount of liquid from opposite sides into the compact jet and thereby deform it and fan it out transversely to the direction of introduction.
  • the conically narrowing section forms a flow behavior inside the nozzle which is particularly suitable for such a deformation of the compact jet by side recesses.
  • the described results from the arrangement of the depressions in the transition region between a conical section and a circular cylindrical section desired spray pattern.
  • the conical section is particularly effective in forming the inflowing liquid into a compact and laminar flowing jet, which is particularly effective due to laterally deflected partial flows is deformable.
  • the pressure profile generated by the flat jet generated in this way is particularly striking. It has been found that essentially constant pressure values occur over the entire cross-section of the flat jet; in the outermost edge regions, the pressure is slightly increased compared to this constant pressure in the remaining cross-section; H. in the outermost edge region there is a somewhat increased, very sharply limited cleaning effect.
  • a jet is swept over a surface to be cleaned, completely uniform cleaning results can be achieved on the entire strip covered by the jet; in the edge region, particularly effective cleaning is also visible to the user's eye, so that a larger area is completely uniform and can be cleaned effectively if the user has cleaning strips immediately adjacent to one another. It is not necessary for certain areas to be covered several times. This cleaning effect also occurs in the same way over a larger area in the flow direction.
  • the opening angle of the conical section is between 10 ° and 90 °, preferably between 30 ° and 50 °.
  • the deflecting surface can have different geometrical configurations per se, it is essential that a liquid flow flowing essentially parallel to the circular cylindrical section of the flow channel is deflected and after the deflection essentially enters the cylindrical section of the flow channel transversely.
  • a particularly advantageous embodiment is one in which the deflecting surface is a partial spherical surface.
  • the spherical partial surface can advantageously adjoin a partial surface of a circular cylinder or truncated cone running parallel to the longitudinal direction of the flow channel.
  • Such an extension can be produced in a simple manner by introducing cylindrical or conical bores into the nozzle body parallel to the cylindrical section of the flow channel and laterally offset from it, which bores are spherical at their ends.
  • the ratio of the distance between the center points of the spherical deflection surfaces from one another and the diameter of the outlet opening is between 0.04 and 3, in particular between 0.04 and 1.5. This ratio is extremely important for the strength of the fanning out. If the distance between the center points is small, the volume of the pocket-shaped depressions is small, ie the volume flow of the partial flows deflected laterally into the main jet is smaller, so that there is less fanning out. This ratio can be used to control the angle of the fanning, which increases the greater the distance between the center points. Furthermore, it is advantageous if the ratio of the diameter of the part-spherical deflection surface and the diameter of the outlet opening is between 1 and 2, preferably between 1.1 and 1.6.
  • the diameter of the partially spherical deflection surface is smaller than the diameter of the outlet opening, there is no fanning out of the main jet, but rather a division into two partial jets. If, on the other hand, the diameter of the partially spherical deflecting surface is more than twice as large as the diameter of the outlet opening, the deformation of the main jet decreases significantly, ie the fanning out becomes less. The main beam then increasingly approaches a rotationally symmetrical compact beam.
  • the length of the cylindrical section of the flow channel between the mouth of the lowest point of the deflection surface and the end of the cylindrical section is between 5% and 30% of the diameter of the outlet opening.
  • the cylindrical section of the flow channel thus ends close to the junction of the deflecting surfaces, so that relatively large fanning angles of the jet are possible without the outer jet parts being obstructed by the inner wall of the cylindrical section.
  • the length of the conical section of the flow channel up to the transition into the circular cylindrical section preferably corresponds to 5 to 20 times the diameter of the outlet opening.
  • a relatively long conical section is therefore provided, which concentrates and accelerates the flow in the circular cylindrical section of the flow channel.
  • the length of the circular cylindrical section corresponds to 0.1 to 1 times the diameter of the outlet opening.
  • the outlet opening downstream of the outlet opening is surrounded at a distance by a protective ring, the inside diameter of which preferably corresponds to 1.5 to 10 times the diameter of the outlet opening.
  • This protective ring in no way hinders the exit of the flat jet from the outlet opening, but stabilizes it with respect to air vortices etc., so that the outlet opening is set back with respect to the end face of the nozzle body.
  • the length of this protective ring in the flow direction can correspond to 0.2 to 5 times the diameter of the outlet opening.
  • FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the nozzle body of FIG. 1 in the flow direction
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic side view of the nozzle body of FIG. 1 with a fanned-out flat jet emerging from it and a schematic representation of the pressure curve over the entire cross section of the flat jet and
  • FIG. 4 a view similar to FIG. 3 in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 3.
  • a nozzle body 1 which is essentially circular-cylindrical and has a projecting ring flange 2 at one end.
  • a nozzle body 1 can be connected to a flow supply in any way, for example by means of a coupling ring, not shown in the drawing, which is pushed over the cylindrical part of the nozzle body 1 and is supported on the ring flange 2 and the nozzle body 1 underneath Intermediate layer of a seal clamps against a jet pipe.
  • the nozzle body 1 can also be inserted into a nozzle housing, for example pressed in or glued to this.
  • the nozzle body can consist of metal, for example of brass or to increase the wear resistance of a hard metal, it is also possible to use ceramic or plastic material.
  • a flow channel 3 Arranged in the nozzle body 1 is a flow channel 3 which penetrates this in the longitudinal direction and has a conically narrowing section 4 on the inflow side and a circular-cylindrical section adjoining this section 5 has.
  • This circular-cylindrical section 5 ends in a circular outlet opening 6, which in turn enters a recess 7 of circular cross section in the end face 8 of the nozzle body 1.
  • the recess 7 has a larger inner diameter than the outlet opening 6, so that a stepped widening of the flow channel occurs in this area, the recess 7 is surrounded by the nozzle body 1 in the form of a protective ring 9.
  • two pocket-shaped extensions 10 are arranged on diametrically opposite sides of the flow channel, which in the exemplary embodiment shown are formed by an upstream part of a circular cylinder and by one adjoining surfaces forming part of a sphere.
  • the opening angle ⁇ of the conically narrowing section 4 is between 10 ° and 90 °, preferably between 30 ° and 50 °.
  • the length y of this conically narrowing section 4 corresponds to 5 to 20 times the diameter e of the outlet opening 6.
  • the length d of the circular cylindrical section 5 corresponds to 0.1 to 1 times the diameter e of the outlet opening 6.
  • the two pocket-shaped extensions 10 result from bores with a spherical closure which are introduced parallel to the longitudinal axis of the flow channel.
  • the distance a between the center points of these spherical surfaces corresponds to 0.04 to 3 times the diameter e of the outlet opening. tion, in particular 0.04 to 1.5, while the diameter b of the partially spherical deflection surface corresponds to 1 to 2 times the diameter e of the outlet opening, preferably 1.1 to 1.6 times.
  • the deflecting surface of the pocket-shaped extension opens relatively close to the outlet opening 6 into the cylindrical section 5 of the flow channel 3, preferably the length c of the cylindrical section 5 of the flow channel 3 lies between the mouth of the lowest point of the deflecting surface 11 Extension 10 and the end of the cylindrical portion 5 between 5% and 30% of the diameter e of the outlet opening 6.
  • the inner diameter f of the protective ring 9 corresponds to 1.5 to 10 times the diameter e of the outlet opening, the length g of the protective ring 9 in the flow direction 0.2 to 5 times the diameter e of the outlet opening.
  • the diameter e of the outlet opening can be, for example, 1.6 mm, so that possible dimensions for the entire nozzle described result from the given conditions.
  • a beam 12 emerging from the outlet opening 6 is fanned out in the central plane between the two depressions 10, that is to say transversely to the direction of flow of the deflection surface 11 into the circular cylinder section 5.
  • the widening angle of the beam 12 in this plane can be varied, specifically by the distance a between the centers of the extensions 10 from each other, on the other hand through the diameter b of the spherical deflection surface 11. Both measures change the ratio of the main flow of the liquid and the partial flows introduced into the latter through the extensions 10 and the deflection surface 11. The larger these partial streams are in relation to the main jet, the more the main jet is fanned out.
  • a beam is fanned out which is essentially only fanned out in one plane and which has a pressure distribution which is essentially constant over the entire cross section of the beam over a larger distance region 13, which is indicated by hatching in FIGS. 3 and 4.
  • This is indicated schematically in FIG. 3 by the pressure distribution curve 14.
  • This curve shows the pressure values over the entire cross section, the pressure values increasing downwards. It can be seen from this that a slight, very narrowly increased increase in pressure occurs in the edge regions 15 of the jet 12, ie the cleaning effect of the flat jet is equally good over the entire cross section down to the outer regions, and is even slightly improved in the edge regions.
  • a flat jet is important, which has only a relatively small expansion angle. This can also be achieved by suitable variation of the distance a and, if appropriate, the diameter b of the spherical deflecting surface; for example, fanning angles as small as 4 ° can be achieved, a flat jet nevertheless having the properties mentioned.
  • the nozzle described can be produced by using metal materials by machining, it is particularly advantageous if the lateral extensions 10 are produced by bores which are introduced with the aid of a drill or form cutter having a spherical tip .
  • a tool can be used with a central tip, which engages in the flow channel 3 as a centering.
  • the entire nozzle can be produced using the injection molding process.

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  • Nozzles (AREA)
  • Perforating, Stamping-Out Or Severing By Means Other Than Cutting (AREA)
  • Cleaning By Liquid Or Steam (AREA)
  • Details Or Accessories Of Spraying Plant Or Apparatus (AREA)

Abstract

Pour obtenir un jet plat avec une répartition très régulière de la pression au moyen d'une buse à jet plat destinée à un appareil de nettoyage à haute pression et comportant un orifice de sortie (6) et un canal d'écoulement (3) disposé en amont de cet orifice et y aboutissant, il est proposé que le canal d'écoulement (3) et l'orifice de sortie (6) présentent, transversalement par rapport au sens de l'écoulement, une section circulaire et soient disposés concentriquement l'un par rapport à l'autre, que le canal d'écoulement présente un rétrécissement conique dans le sens de l'écoulement et aboutisse dans une section (5) cylindrique circulaire disposée en amont de l'orifice de sortie et dont l'extrémité forme cet orifice de sortie (6) et que, sur les côtés diamétralement opposés du canal d'écoulement, au niveau de la transformation de la section conique (4) du canal d'écoulement (3) en section cylindrique circulaire, soient disposés des évasements (10) du canal d'écoulement (3) en forme de poche formés et disposés symétriquement l'un par rapport à l'autre, évasements qui s'étendent pratiquement sur la totalité du diamètre de la section cylindrique circulaire (5) et qui présente une surface de déflexion (11) qui dirige transversalement dans la section cylindrique une partie du liquide traversant la section conique (4).
EP94906223A 1993-02-09 1994-02-05 Buse a jet plat pour un appareil de nettoyage a haute pression Expired - Lifetime EP0683696B1 (fr)

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DE4303762A DE4303762A1 (de) 1993-02-09 1993-02-09 Flachstrahldüse für ein Hochdruckreinigungsgerät
DE4303762 1993-02-09
PCT/EP1994/000330 WO1994017921A1 (fr) 1993-02-09 1994-02-05 Buse a jet plat pour un appareil de nettoyage a haute pression

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JP (1) JP2637626B2 (fr)
AT (1) ATE169524T1 (fr)
AU (1) AU677985B2 (fr)
CA (1) CA2154697C (fr)
DE (2) DE4303762A1 (fr)
DK (1) DK0683696T3 (fr)
FI (1) FI109883B (fr)
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DE4303762A1 (de) 1994-08-11
NO300919B1 (no) 1997-08-18
ATE169524T1 (de) 1998-08-15
DE59406683D1 (de) 1998-09-17
FI109883B (fi) 2002-10-31
WO1994017921A1 (fr) 1994-08-18
US5597122A (en) 1997-01-28
JPH08504673A (ja) 1996-05-21
NO953112L (no) 1995-08-08
EP0683696B1 (fr) 1998-08-12
FI953764A (fi) 1995-08-08
CA2154697C (fr) 1998-06-23
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