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EP0806568A2
EP0806568A2 EP97107467A EP97107467A EP0806568A2 EP 0806568 A2 EP0806568 A2 EP 0806568A2 EP 97107467 A EP97107467 A EP 97107467A EP 97107467 A EP97107467 A EP 97107467A EP 0806568 A2 EP0806568 A2 EP 0806568A2
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compressor
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bicycle
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Kurt H.C. Dr. Stoll
Günter Pöschl
Jörg Grau
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Festo SE and Co KG
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B33/00—Pumps actuated by muscle power, e.g. for inflating
    • F04B33/005—Pumps actuated by muscle power, e.g. for inflating specially adapted for inflating tyres of non-motorised vehicles, e.g. cycles, tricycles
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B35/00—Piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by the driving means to their working members, or by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors, not otherwise provided for
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B27/00—Machines, plants or systems, using particular sources of energy

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  • the invention relates to a compressor in accordance with the preamble of claim 1.
  • Apparatus for compressing gaseous fluids such as air in enclosed spaces or containers (e.g. balls, vehicle tires) or for removing gaseous fluids such as air from an enclosed space e.g. for creation of a vacuum work mostly with displacement bodies which either move back and forth (a piston compressor) or rotate (rotating piston compressor) and in so doing are able to withdraw gaseous fluid from a space or force it into a space.
  • the known compressors normally have as their drive an electric or combustion engine. Their utilization is therefore necessarily dependent on the availability of a power source such as electrical current or fuel for operating the engine.
  • the engine makes the compressor more expensive and makes its utilization dependent on the availability of the power source.
  • Such problems are avoided if the compressor is driven with muscle power. Examples of this are a bicycle pump and a hand or foot pump to pump up automobile tires.
  • a piston equipped with piston rings is moved back and forth within a cylinder, the piston being firmly attached to a rod at whose end a handle or a pedal is mounted.
  • the cylinder and the piston are made of metal or a plastic, the piston rings are normally made of a polymer compound.
  • the fluid control takes place by means of a simple check- or hand valve.
  • a muscle-power driven compressor of the known bicycle pump type can indeed be operated without power source, but has the disadvantage that the efficiency and the performance, i.e., the achievable pressure, is relatively low. Connection of such a compressor to an existing mechanical energy source is scarcely possible, because it normally delivers this energy through a rotating shaft and because this rotational movement cannot he used directly for the known hand and foot pumps. Because the force to be applied at a predetermined pressure is proportional to the face area of the piston, this face area is limited in its size. In order to nevertheless be able to displace the largest possible quantity of fluid with a single movement, the cylinders would have to be made relatively large and thereby would make the hand or foot pump impractical.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a practical compressor, which is usable independently of an engine having a special power source and is suitable for generation of high pressures.
  • the compressor according to the invention can be driven either periodically by muscle power or continuously by mechanical drive and makes it possible to achieve high pressures and a high compression performance with low force application.
  • the displacement body of the compressor according to the invention is a piston which is moveable back and forth via the drive shaft and a connecting rod inside a cylinder in the manner known for reciprocating piston compressors, then during each rotation of the rope pulley the working space is filled precisely once and the fluid is compressed in the compression stroke.
  • the number of possible compression strokes from a single pull at a free rope end depends only upon the number of turns of the rope around the rope pulley.
  • the first overrunning clutch between rope pulley and drive shaft prevents additional rope from being unwound from the rope pulley, simply by virtue of the mass inertia of the moving parts or that rope is again wound up in the opposite direction after complete unwinding.
  • the compressor takes the form of rotating piston compressor or Roots compressor, then the rotational inertia moment of the moving parts is generally greater, relative to its form as a reciprocating piston compressor and the first overrunning clutch is therefore all the more necessary.
  • the invention makes it possible to cause the drive shaft to be set into continuous rotation by a mechanical drive.
  • the compressor can therefore not only simply be driven manually, but can also be simply connected to an engine shaft or a wheel.
  • Overrunning clutches of the above described kind are known in themselves, cf German magazine: dhf 12/68 issue, F. Dahmen: Freewheel clutches -- method of operation, design, and possibilities of application pp. 64-69.
  • the compressor according to the invention is equipped with a dual drive and enables the achievement of high pressures both with manual and with mechanical drive.
  • the compressor according to the invention is therefore usable where known manual compressors such as hand or foot pumps are not adequate because of too low performance.
  • the utilization of a dual drive in an apparatus for pumping up pneumatic tires of bicycles, automobiles, etc. is known in itself, see, for example, Swiss Patent 103362, but not in conjunction with the drive for a compressor via two overrunning clutches, either of which can be utilized.
  • a rope pulley and a housing of the compressor are connected to each other by spring actuator, then the rope unwound through manual pull on the rope end can be rolled up again on the rope pulley by the spring actuator which causes the rope pulley to rotate in the opposite direction. Because the rope pulley is then decoupled from the drive shaft by means of the first overrunning clutch, even a relatively small spring actuator can rewind the rope rapidly on the rope pulley. Thus the time delay between two manual pulls on the free rope end for compressing a fluid can be kept relatively short.
  • the spring actuator uses a spiral spring, one end of which is connected to the rope pulley and the other end to a housing for the compressor, the spring actuator can be integrated into the rope pulley in space saving manner.
  • the spiral spring can simply be connected at its ends to the rope pulley and the housing, respectively, the wound-up form of the spiral spring making it possible to achieve a plurality of rotations during spring excursion, without the spring force varying much throughout the spring excursion.
  • the rotating body is a friction roller
  • the compressor can be simply driven by pressing the friction roller against a rotating wheel or a rotating shaft.
  • the rotating body is a spur gear
  • the compressor can be simply driven by engaging with it a worm gear on a rotating shaft or by driving the spur gear by means of a chain which can be driven via pedals similarly to a bicycle.
  • a holder serving as a stop for holding the compressor in position which can, for example, be attached to the housing of the compressor, then the compressor can be held in place, for example, by a foot while the free rope end is pulled with one hand.
  • the free end of the rope is provided with a handle, then the pull on the rope end required for compression can be achieved simply and comfortably with one hand.
  • the compressor produces high pressure air and the compressor is of small size and an adjustable pressure limiting device is located between the compressor and a compressed air consumer, then the compressor can be comfortably transported and applied anywhere where highly compressed air is needed, with the adjustable pressure limiting device preventing the pressure in the compressed air consumer from exceeding a desired value.
  • the pressure limiting device dead space of adjustable size inside the compressor, then the pressure limiting device can be provided simply and reliably. For a given dead space of the compressor a malfunction of the pressure limiting device, in the sense that the actual pressure can exceed the desired pressure, is impossible.
  • an adjustable pressure relief valve is provided as the pressure limiting device, then there can be used as pressure limiting device an inexpensive standard component which is of compact construction and can be easily connected to the cylinder or a cylinder head.
  • the holder is a swivel bracket for pivotable attachment of the compressor to the frame of a bicycle
  • the compressor can be simply driven by its inward pivoting and by a wheel of the bicycle, most conveniently, for example, during downhill travel of the bicycle.
  • the compressed air consumer is a tire of a bicycle or a compressed air storage container attached to the frame of the bicycle, then the tire of the stationary bicycle can be pumped up by pulling on the handle or, during downhill travel of the bicycle, the compressed air storage container can be filled without exertion by the cyclist on the bicycle and then the compressed air can be used later to pump up the tire.
  • a compressor for gaseous fluids collectively designated as 10 , in a preferred embodiment as a reciprocating piston compressor, which is provided with a crankcase 12 and a drive shaft 14 journaled in the crankcase 12 which can be driven optionally either via a rope pulley 16 or a friction roller 18 and which is connected via a connecting rod 20 with a piston 22 which is moveable back and forth in a cylinder 24 by rotation of the drive shaft 14 .
  • a cylinder head 28 is attached at the head end 26 of cylinder 24 opposite drive shaft 14 which there is mounted an intake valve 30 and a discharge valve 32 .
  • a rope 36 is wound up in a groove 34 on the circumference of the rope pulley 16 , with a first, free rope end 38 connected to a handle 40 shaped as a ring and with a second rope end attached to the rope pulley 16 .
  • a spiral spring 46 is wound up, with a first end 41 firmly attached to the rope pulley 16 and a second end 43 via a lid 50 to the crankcase 12 .
  • the rope pulley 16 and the friction roller 18 are connected to the drive shaft 14 by overrunning clutches 52 and 56 , respectively.
  • the friction roller 18 can exert its drive force only in a single direction because in the opposite rotating direction of the friction roller 18 its overrunning clutch becomes effective.
  • the overrunning clutches are so-called ratchet brakes or sleeve clutches of known type.
  • the peripheral surface 58 of friction roller 18 is concavely curved in order to assure a large contact area, for example when laid against a bicycle tire.
  • a sleeve bearing 60 in the form of a T-bushing for the rotatable bearing of drive shaft 14 is mounted in crankcase 12 and bears with a head end against a crank arm of drive shaft 14 .
  • a crank pin 64 is connected to crank arm 62 of drive shaft 14 eccentrically with respect to the axis A of the crank shaft 14 .
  • Rotatably seated on crank pin 64 is a connecting rod end 66 in the form of an eye.
  • the connecting rod end 66 is shrink fitted onto the connecting rod, but the connecting rod end 66 can also be made of a single piece together with the connecting rod 20 .
  • the other connecting rod end is connected to the piston 22 by means of a pivotable connection (not shown).
  • the crankcase 12 is closed by a lid 70 at one head end 71 of the crankcase 12 so that there is formed a space which is completely enclosed by the underside of piston 22 , the inner wall of cylinder 24 , the crankcase 12 , and the lid 70 .
  • crankcase 12 in which the drive shaft 14 is rotatably supported by sleeve bearing 60 has at its outer end a chamber 49 which contains the rope pulley 16 and is closed by the lid 15 which is detachably connected to the crankcase 12 .
  • the rope 36 is led to the outside through a passage 74 in crankcase 12 , where its free end 38 is connected to handle 40 .
  • the crankcase 12 is partly open along its circumference, so that the friction roller 18 protrudes here radially, i.e. partly or freely accessible, so that it can be set into rotation through frictional contact with some rotating element (not shown in Fig. 1).
  • the passage 74 is displaced circumferentially by 180° with respect to the exposed portion of friction roller 18 .
  • the discharge valve 32 opens as soon as the gaseous fluid in the cylinder 24 has a higher pressure than exists on the discharge side.
  • the discharge valve 22 closes and the intake valve 30 opens as soon as the gaseous fluid in the cylinder 24 has a lower pressure than prevails at the intake valve 30 .
  • the pressure prevailing at the intake valve 30 is the ambient pressure.
  • the friction roller 18 can be driven by being pressed against a rotating bicycle tire or the like. Basically, any rotating shaft or any rotating wheel can be used as the power source for driving the compressor 10 . Rotation of friction roller 18 drives the compressor 10 via drive shaft 14 in the same way as rotation of the rope pulley 1 6, although continuously rather than periodically.
  • the compressor 10 can conveniently be held in place by shoe 76 via a holder 75 when, for example, the ring shaped handle 40 is pulled away from the compressor by one finger.
  • the discharge valve 32 can be connected to a bicycle tire 78 through a pressure hose 77 .
  • air from the outside is drawn in through intake valve 30 and pumped through discharge valve 32 and pressure hose 77 into the bicycle tire 78 .
  • rope 36 is immediately wound back up on rope pulley 16 by the spiral spring 46 so that a further pull on the handle 40 can take place soon.
  • spiral spring 46 there can also be used a torsion rod, a rubber band, or a coil spring as spring actuator for winding rope 36 back up on rope pulley 16 .
  • the pressure hose 77 is connected to a pressure storage container 82 which is fixedly attached to a bicycle 84 .
  • a pressure storage container there can also be used the bicycle frame or a portion thereof.
  • the compressor 10 can be displaced by means of a swivel bracket 80 in such a manner that the friction roller 18 is brought into frictional engagement with bicycle tire 78 . Because there is a risk of exceeding the nominal pressure of approximately 10 bar, e.g. while traveling downhill with bicycle 84 in which the friction roller 18 of compressor 10 is in engagement with the bicycle tire 78 , there is provided a pressure relief valve which can be incorporated into discharge valve 32 .
  • the maximum compression and also the nominal pressure of the compressor for a given air pressure can be set via adjustment of the dead space in cylinder 24 which dead space exists when the piston 22 is at its upper dead center.
  • the volume of the dead space can be changed and the nominal pressure of compressor 10 varied.
  • a spur gear can also be placed on overrunning clutch 56 which can, for example, be driven by a chain, analogously to a sprocket of a bicycle.
  • Fig. 4 shows such a refrigeration plant, consisting of the above described compressor 10 , which is used here as refrigerant compressor, and a condenser 90 , a collecting vessel 92 , an expansion valve 94 and an evaporator 96 .
  • the compressor 10 has no electric connection, but is driven by hand or by external machinery. If it is driven manually until the evaporator in a well insulated refrigerated chamber has reached a temperature below 0° Celsius, then goods can be stored in the refrigerated chamber for at least 24 hours without again having to operate the compressor.
  • Such a small refrigeration plant with hand driven compressor is suitable for remote locations where no electric connection is available, or also for use in automotive vehicles or camping vehicles if the battery is to be saved.

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GB2342126A (en) * 1998-10-01 2000-04-05 Julian Claude Peck Pull cord driven pump
GB2342125A (en) * 1998-10-01 2000-04-05 Julian Claude Peck :Manually operated pump
WO2000020757A1 (en) * 1998-10-01 2000-04-13 Julian Claude Peck Manually operated pump or compressor
WO2006103084A1 (en) * 2005-03-31 2006-10-05 Derek James Crabbe A heat transfer container
WO2007131247A3 (en) * 2006-05-04 2008-01-03 Barent Cornelius Strydom A refrigerator
EP2715136B1 (de) * 2011-05-30 2020-07-08 Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH Kompressoreinheit

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WO1999057436A1 (en) * 1998-04-30 1999-11-11 Yingzhe Hwang The structure of the inflator attached on the bicycle
GB2342126A (en) * 1998-10-01 2000-04-05 Julian Claude Peck Pull cord driven pump
GB2342125A (en) * 1998-10-01 2000-04-05 Julian Claude Peck :Manually operated pump
WO2000020757A1 (en) * 1998-10-01 2000-04-13 Julian Claude Peck Manually operated pump or compressor
US6925927B2 (en) 1998-10-01 2005-08-09 Julian Claude Peck Manually operated pump or compressor
WO2006103084A1 (en) * 2005-03-31 2006-10-05 Derek James Crabbe A heat transfer container
WO2007131247A3 (en) * 2006-05-04 2008-01-03 Barent Cornelius Strydom A refrigerator
EP2715136B1 (de) * 2011-05-30 2020-07-08 Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH Kompressoreinheit

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