IE49035B1 - Pipe part with socket,provided with longitudinally extending channels - Google Patents

Abstract

Section of tube with socket and longitudinal channels, in which its wall is provided with longitudinally extending channels, characterized by the fact that the said channels extend continuously or discontinuously in the wall of the socket, at least on a part of the wall. length thereof, and the outer side of the socket is provided with an external housing.

Description

The invention relates to a pipe part with a socket, the wall being provided with longitudinally extending channels.

Such a pipe part with a socket is known. In said known 5 pipe part with a socket the longitudinal channels in the wall of said pipe part only extend until the transition between said pipe part and said socket. A result hereof is that on using pipe parts the wall of which comprises longitudinally extending channels, the walls of said channels have to be pressed onto each other over the entire length of the socket, so that a socket wall part without longitudinally extending channels is produced. The result of this is that considerable problems will occur in practice. Although walls may be pressed onto each other over the length of the socket, the properties of strength of the material of the socket so obtained are often insufficient.

Moreover, welding or heatsealing a socket to a pipe part, the wall of which comprises longitudinally extending channels, will also cause problems, since the ends of the longitudinally extending channels of the pipe part have to be sealed off by disposing an end sealing wall, which wall serves at the same time as a connection with the socket to be formed.

The present invention aims to provide a pipe part which 5 overcomes these problems.

According to the invention, there is provided a pipe part provided with a socket, the wall of said pipe being provided with longitudinally extending channels, said channels extending continuously or discontin10 uously in the socket wall at least over a part of the length of the socket.

Such a pipe part with socket offers the advantage that the properties of strength of said socket are substantially equal to the properties of strength of the pipe part, which facilitates processing of the pipe parts and the formation of sockets to said pipe parts.

The socket according to the invention advantageously comprises an annular groove for the receipt of a sealing member, thus causing the socket to be used immediately for the coupling with another pipe part, the wall of which comprises longitudinally extending channels.

The inner diameter of the groove being located at distance from the socket end, may be substantially equal to the outer diameter of said socket, thus causing a closing of the longitudinally extending channels at the location of said groove, while the properties of strength of said socket are then only slightly changed.

In a very appropriate embodiment of the present invention the pipe part with socket is provided with an annular end groove which is formed by an engagement of a retaining ring and socket. The latter embodiment is very convenient in that no separate annular groove need be disposed inside the socket which is a rather technical process. Said groove can now be Mi&oufc defcninq the socket starting· ffem- the interior of the difficult formed in •SocKet , p,i.p£ par-k.

A sealing member part disposed between the inner side of the retaining ring and the front side of the socket may now provide a resilient fixing of an axially movable retaining ring. When the bottom of the assembly is subjected to a high impact retaining ring can thus be retaining ring will return As described hereinbefore, to the resilient action of an axial movement of said realized, whereafter the to its original position, the latter movements are due the flexible material of the - 5 sealing member part, being disposed in between the front side of the socket and the inside of the retaining ring.

Said retaining ring may be coupled with the socket by means of a snap-connection which is provided by an annular projection at the inside of the substantially J-shaped retaining ring and an annular recess at the outside of the socket, obtained by pressing the walls of the channels together at the location of said connection. In this manner a sealing off of the channels is obtained by pressing them together and also an additional seal at the front end of the socket, to wit the front side of the channels, by disposing the sealing member part at said front side of the socket; the latter provision ensures an absolute closure of said channels.

Even if the channels at the other end of the pipe part would be open, sewage water from pipes will never be able to reach the front ends of the channels in the socket end, so that a flowing out of undesired liquids from channels into a pipe line consisting of a pipe part with a socket and a projecting pipe part, is absolutely impossible.

So as to facilitate an axial displacement of the retaining ring, the annular recess at the outside of ., 4-9 035 the socket and the annular projection upon the retaining ring have a cross-sectional V-shape, or a rectangular, trapezoidal or a wave-shape, a clearance existing at least between the two wall parts of the recess facing each other and the projection, thus allowing a yielding of plastics material. The advantages of an embodiment of this type are manifold, since the retaining ring or the socket cannot be damaged in case the pipe part with socket and the retaining ring mounted thereupon will hit the bottom vigorously, since due to the axial movement of the retaining ring being absorbed by the flexible material of the sealing member part disposed in the annular groove, which is situated in between the front side of the socket and the inside of the retaining ring, a damage, owing to a vigorous impact is absolutely excluded.

The retaining ring may also be fixed by an adhesive or by casting, in which latter case said retaining ring does not possess a relative axial movement with respect to the socket.

According to a very advantageous embodiment a pipe part with a socket the wall of which comprising longitudinally extending channels, comprises channels which will extend continuous or discontinuousin the wall of the socket over the length of said socket, the front ends of the channels being sealed off, said seal consisting of a flexible sealing end part, cooperating sealingly with the front side of the socket while sealing the longitudinally extending channels or of a wall being integral with the socket and forming an end seal. The wall forming an end seal may appropriately extend undulating between the free end of the socket and the annular recess at the outside of said socket when a retaining ring is used cooperating with a recess in the wall of the socket, by means of a snap-connection.

The present invention will now be illustrated with respect to an embodiment in the drawing, wherein: Figure 1 shows a pipe part with socket in accordance with the invention, comprising an annular groove; Figure la gives a view of the front side of a pipe part with socket according to figure 1; Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of a pipe part with socket and an annular end groove chamber with a retaining ring and sealing member; Figure 3 shows a detail of a pipe part with socket as shown in Figure 2; - 8 Figure 4 shows a variant of a pipe part with socket and an annular end groove chamber according to Fig. 2; Figure 5 shows a modified embodiment of a pipe 5 part with socket comprising an annular end groove chamber; Figure 6 shows another embodiment of a pipe part with socket and an annular end groove chamber; Figure 7 shows a pipe part with a socket compris10 ing an annular end groove chamber with an adhering retaining ring; Figure 8 shows a further pipe part with socket comprising an annular end groove chamber and a sealing or pressing ring; Figure 9 shows a pipe part with a socket comprising a resilient end sealing member sealing off the front ends of the channels; Figure 9a shows a further embodiment of a pipe part in accordance with the invention; Figure 10 shows still another embodiment; - 9 Figure 11 also shows a further embodiment; Figure 12 shows the method of forming the embodiment according to figure 1 and Figure 13 shows an embodiment of a connection 5 between two plastics pipe parts in accordance with the invention, one pipe part being provided with a helically extending external groove, the other pipe part being provided with a helically extending internal groove, so as to obtain a screw-connection.

Figure 1 shows a pipe part 1 with a socket 2. The wall 4 of the pipe part and socket is provided with longitudinally extending channels 3. Said longitudinally extending channels 3 have a rounded cross-section and preferably an elliptical or round shape. Said extending channels 3 continue in the socket 2 and end in the free ends 7.

An annular groove chamber 5 is disposed at distance from the front end 7 of the socket 2 in order to receive a sealing member between said socket 2 of a pipe part 1 and the projecting pipe part. Said groove chamber 5 is obtained by pressing together the walls of the channels 3. This pressing may be thus performed - 49035 - 10 that the inner diameter 6 of the annular groove chamber 5 substantially corresponds to the outer diameter of the outer wall 2a of the socket. Consequently only a slight elevation 8 is obtained on the outer side of socket 2.

In the above-described manner the advantage is obtained that due to a sealing no connection will exist between the inner side and the outer side of the pipe, even when leakages occur from the inside of said pipe towards the channels.

Figure 2 shows a very convenient embodiment of the present invention, to wit a pipe part 1 with longitudinally extending channels 3 with an adjoining socket 2. Said socket 2 is provided with an end widening 10 for the receipt of a sealing sleeve 11 of a sealing member 12 provided with a front member 22 being present within an annular end groove chamber 14 of said pipe part.

Said annular end groove chamber 14 is formed by means of a retaining ring 15 connected with socket 2 and being fixed on the outer side of said socket 2. Said retaining ring 15 has at least a longitudinal J-shape thus providing said retaining member on the one hand with a bottom 16, a short leg part 17 and a long leg part 18. Said long leg part 18 is provided with an annular inwardly directed thickening 19, cooperating snappingly with an annular recess 20 upon the outside of the socket 2. At the location of said annular recess 20 the outer wall 2a of the socket 2 rests against the inner side 21 of the channels 3, so that a very good seal is obtained between the front side of the socket and the inner side of the channels.

A sealing member part 22 being integral with the sealing sleeve 11 of the sealing member 12, is disposed within the annular end groove chamber 14.

The cross section of the recess 20 and the inwardly directed projection 19 of the leg 18 of the retaining ring 15 is wave-shaped, V-shaped, rectangular or trapezoidal. In order to facilitate an axial displacement of the retaining ring with respect to the socket, said embodiment has such a shape, that a wall part 23 of the recess 20 and a wall part 24 of the inwardly directed projection 19 are kept at distance from one another with clearance, so that the plastics material is able to yield if the sealing ring is subjected to an axial impact, which may occur when the pipe part with the socket, the retaining ring fixed upon the socket and the sealing member 12, hit the bottom vigorously, especially when similar pipe parts are unloaded from vans. - 12 An appropriate retaining of the sealing member part 22 is obtained by providing said sealing member part 22 with an inwardly directed part 22a extending in the space formed between the inner side of leg 18 of the retaining ring 15 and a chamfer 25 obtained by the end sealing wall of the channels. An easy and rapid mounting of the retaining ring is obtained by giving said end sealing wall part 25 forming the chamfer, a rounded shape. This holds also for the transition 20b of the recess 20 (Fig. 3). The bottom 20a of said recess 20 will have an optimum strength by also giving same a rounded shape.

Figure 4 shows a further embodiment of the sealing member 12, in this case being provided with a sealing member part 22 which extends on the one hand with part 22a across the outer side of the socket 2 and on the other hand with part 22b across the inner side of said socket 2. The latter embodiment also comprises a connection between the sealing member part 22 and the sealing sleeve 11. The retaining ring used in this embodiment, generally consisting of a material being more impact-resistant than the material of the socket, may consist of a cast polyurethane or for example a polypropylene or a polyethylene retaining ring. - 13 Figure 5 also shows an embodiment according to the invention, the retaining ring 15 in this embodiment now being fixed to the outer side of the socket 2, by means of an adhesive connection 26. In this embodi5 ment the sealing member part 22 is also provided with parts 22a and 22b extending across the outer side and the inner side of the socket in the vicinity of its front end.

In Figure 6 an embodiment is shown in which the 10 retaining ring 15 is retained by means of an inwardly directed retaining ring end edge 26 which clampingly engages the transition 27 between the end widening 10 and the socket 2.

In this embodiment the retaining ring 15 also comprises 15 a long leg part 18, a bottom part 16 and a short leg part 17. The inner diameter of the retaining ring equals the inner diameter of the end part 10 of the socket 2, but this is not essential since the inner diameter mostly equals the inner diameter of the socket itself, in order to facilitate the centering operation.

In Figure 7 the retaining ring 15 is fixed to the outer side of the socket 2, said retaining ring being provided with a bottom part 16, a short leg part 17 and a long leg part 18. The inner diameter of the leg 17 now equals - 14 the inner diameter of the socket 2.

So as to effect a proper retaining of the sealing member, the front end 28 of the socket 2 is chamfered, the sealing member part being disposed within the annular end groove chamber 14, being adapted to said chamfer 28.

Figure 8 shows a further embodiment wherein the sealing member 12 is retained by means of a ring 29.

Said ring 29 is pressed into the sealing member 12, which was previously disposed upon the socket end, which pressing operation results in a tight fixing of said sealing member 12. If desired, a part 31 of the sealing member 12 may be fixed by means of an adhesive 32. Said ring 29 may get engaged across part 31 by means of annular part 30.

Figure 9 shows a further embodiment wherein the sealing member 12 comprises a main part which seals off the front side of the socket 2 and thus the channels 3 in said socket. Said sealing member 12 also comprises a part 22a, which extends across the outside of the socket over a certain distance thereof and a part 22b which extends across the inner side of said socket. 4-9 03S - 15 Said sealing member 12 is hereby fixed to the front side of the socket by an adhesive, e.g. a plastics glue, and thus seals off the channels. It is obvious that the latter embodiment does not require a particular retaining ring, as the adherence by means of the glue layer 14, 14a and 14b, ensures an optimum fixing of the sealing member 12 onto the socket 2.

The aforedescribed pipe part 1 with a socket 2 consists of a thermoplastics material like for instance polyvinylchloride, the retaining ring 15 advantageously consisting of a material having a higher yield and an impact resistance, exceeding those of polyvinylchloride, so in particular a polyolefin material, such as a polyethylene or a polypropylene.

The material of the sealing member advantageously consists of an elastomer.

Instead of a polyethylene retaining ring 15, a retaining ring consisting of polyurethane may also be used, the latter ring being cast. The latter excludes an axial movement between the retaining ring and the socket.

Figure 9a shows an embodiment in which the retaining ring 15 is retained by shrinkage over a collar-shaped part 32a, obtained by pressing the walls at the end of - 16 a pipe, while forming an end wall 34. The sealing member 12 comprises a projection 11a.

Figure 10 shows an embodiment in which the retaining ring 15 is retained by transition 27 between the widening 10 and socket 2. Said retaining ring comprises, however, an inwardly staggered ring part 35 and a rather long leg 36 which extends in the vicinity of the aforementioned transition 27. The sealing member comprises a head 22 and a sealing part 37 being formed thus that an annular chamber 38 is formed which may easily absorb any tolerances of pipe parts.

Figure 11 shows an embodiment in which the sealing member comprises a head 22 being retained by retaining ring 15 which cooperates with collar 32a. The seal is effected by ring part 35.

Figure 12 also shows the formation of the groove chamber 5 in the socket 2. To that end the outer side of the socket 2 is surrounded by an outer mould 41, while the inner side of the socket 2 is provided with a mandrel 42, comprising an expandable core 43. Said expandable core 43 is pressed outwardly thereby forming the groove chamber 5, due to the fact that the inner wall 6a is pressed entirely against the outer wall 5a of the socket 2, while sealing off the channels 3. As the - 17 plastics are able to yield or melt, a very homogeneous groove chamber bottom 40 is obtained. Actually the plastics material is pressed away into the channels, so that no accumulation of material beside a groove will occur.

Figure 13 shows a screw-connection between two plastics pipe parts comprising longitudinally extending channels 3. One plastics pipe part 1 is provided with a socket widening 2, the inner side comprises a helically extending groove 45, thus involving sealing of the channels 3 at a plurality of locations.

Figure 13 also shows a second pipe part la the outer wall 5a of the socket being provided with a helically extending external groove 44. By selecting the same pitch of the screws 45 and 44, a plastics pipe part 1 can be connected with a second plastics pipe part la, by screwing their ends 2 and 47 tightly into each other.

Said screwing is facilitated by providing a small clearance 46 between the wall 45a of the helically extending internal groove 45 and the wall 44a of the helically extending external groove 44. jjieU ow melt The plastics pipe 1 has ayytemperature of more than 80°c, preferably between 120°C and 170°C.

Claims (15)

1. A pipe part provided with a socket, the wall of said pipe being provided with longitudinally extending channels, said channels extending continuously or discontinuously in the socket wall at least over a part of the length of the socket.

2. A pipe part according to claim 1, wherein the socket is provided with an annular groove chamber for receiving a sealing member part.

3. A pipe part according to claim 1, wherein the socket is provided with an annular groove chamber located at distance from the socket end and obtained by radially pressing the walls of the channels, preferably sealingly, onto each other over a certain distance.

4. A pipe part according to claim 3, wherein the inner diameter of the groove chamber substantially equals the outer diameter of the socket.

5. A pipe part according to claim 1, being provided with an annular end groove chamber formed by cooperation of a retaining ring and socket.

6. A pipe part according to claim 5, wherein the - 19 cross-section of the retaining ring is substantially J-shaped.

7. A pipe part according to claim 6, wherein at least one of the following measures has been applied: (a) a retaining ring engages the socket by means of a snap-connection; (b) a retaining ring cooperates snappingly with the transition between the pipe part and the socket; (c) a retaining ring is provided with at least an inwardly projecting part which snappingly engages in a recess at the outside of the socket; (d) a retaining ring engages the socket by means of a projection located in a recess, said projection and the recess extending annularly; (e) a recess in the socket has been obtained by pressing walls of the channels onto inner* each other, while maintaining theyjdiameter of the socket; - 20 (f) a retaining ring engaging the socket is axially movable; (g) an annular recess in the socket and 5 have a V-shaped, wave-shaped, rectangular or trapezoidal cross-section; (h) at least between two opposite wall parts of the recess and the projection, comprise a clearance in between them, allowing a 10 yield of plastics material.

8. A pipe part according to claim 5, wherein the retaining ring is fixedly secured onto the socket preferably by casting or an adhesive,

9. A pipe part according to claims 1-8, wherein 15 at least one of the following measures has been applied (a) the socket is provided with an end widening for receiving a -Sealing mertter* parL· io be received in -Said jrtooYe. chanter - 21 (b) the inner diameter of a retaining ring is equal to or greater than the inner diameter of the socket; (c) the front end of the longitudinally 5 extending channels is sealed off; (d) the front end of the socket is sealed off by a wall providing an end chamfer; (e) a wall providing the end chamfer extends between the free end of the socket and an 10. Annular recess situated at the outer side of the socket; (f) the front ends of the longitudinally extending channels are sealed off by a flexible end sealing part, which said end 15 sealing part may be integral with a sealing sleeve; (g) an end sealing part is fixed to the socket by means of an adhesive; (h) an end sealing part extends across the 20 outside of the socket; - 22 (i) an end sealing part extends across the inner side of the socket; (j) the end of the socket is chamfered; (k) the pipe part consists of a thermoplastics, preferably of a polyvinylchloride; (l) a retaining ring engaging the socket consists of a material having a yield capacity and impact resistance exceeding that of the plastics material of the pipe part, said material preferably being a polyolefin, and more preferably a polyethylene or a polypropylene.

10. A pipe part according to claim 1, wherein the discontinuity of said channels forms an annular groove in the socket.

11. A pipe part according to claim 1, the outer or inner side of said pipe being provided with a helically extending groove, wherein preferably the internal helically extending groove and the external helically extending groove of the aforementioned pipe parts have an even pitch, so that said pipe parts can be screwed - 23 tightly into each other.

12. A method for forming a pipe part with a groove according to any one of claims 2 to 11 by applying a groove forming member, a mould and a mandrel, wherein a 5 plastics pipe comprising an inner and outer wall having longitudinally extending partitions in between them and being integral with said inner and outer wall, bounding longitudinally extending channels, is heated, while subsequently the expanded groove forming member presses 10 channel wall parts tightly onto each other at least a distance from the respective pipe end, thereby forming a groove.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein the temperature of the plastics pipe while forming the 15 groove by pressing channel walls onto each other, is higher than 80°C, said temperature preferably ranging between 120 andl70°C.

14. Pipe parts substantially as described herein with reference to and as illustrated in any of the 20 accompanying drawings.

15. A method for forming pipe parts substantially as described herein with reference to and as illustrated in any of the accompanying drawings.