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• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C13/00—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels
  • F17C13/08—Mounting arrangements for vessels
  • F17C13/084—Mounting arrangements for vessels for small-sized storage vessels, e.g. compressed gas cylinders or bottles, disposable gas vessels, vessels adapted for automotive use
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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  • F17C2201/0104—Shape cylindrical
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• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2201/00—Vessel construction, in particular geometry, arrangement or size
  • F17C2201/03—Orientation
  • F17C2201/032—Orientation with substantially vertical main axis
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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  • F17C2201/054—Size medium (>1 m3)
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2201/00—Vessel construction, in particular geometry, arrangement or size
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  • F17C2201/056—Small (<1 m3)
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2205/00—Vessel construction, in particular mounting arrangements, attachments or identifications means
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  • F17C2205/0123—Mounting arrangements characterised by number of vessels
  • F17C2205/013—Two or more vessels
  • F17C2205/0134—Two or more vessels characterised by the presence of fluid connection between vessels
  • F17C2205/0142—Two or more vessels characterised by the presence of fluid connection between vessels bundled in parallel
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
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  • F17C2205/0153—Details of mounting arrangements
  • F17C2205/0169—Details of mounting arrangements stackable
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2205/00—Vessel construction, in particular mounting arrangements, attachments or identifications means
  • F17C2205/03—Fluid connections, filters, valves, closure means or other attachments
  • F17C2205/0302—Fittings, valves, filters, or components in connection with the gas storage device
  • F17C2205/0323—Valves
  • F17C2205/0329—Valves manually actuated
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2223/00—Handled fluid before transfer, i.e. state of fluid when stored in the vessel or before transfer from the vessel
  • F17C2223/01—Handled fluid before transfer, i.e. state of fluid when stored in the vessel or before transfer from the vessel characterised by the phase
  • F17C2223/0107—Single phase
  • F17C2223/0123—Single phase gaseous, e.g. CNG, GNC
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2223/00—Handled fluid before transfer, i.e. state of fluid when stored in the vessel or before transfer from the vessel
  • F17C2223/03—Handled fluid before transfer, i.e. state of fluid when stored in the vessel or before transfer from the vessel characterised by the pressure level
  • F17C2223/035—High pressure (>10 bar)
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2250/00—Accessories; Control means; Indicating, measuring or monitoring of parameters
  • F17C2250/04—Indicating or measuring of parameters as input values
  • F17C2250/0404—Parameters indicated or measured
  • F17C2250/043—Pressure
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2270/00—Applications
  • F17C2270/05—Applications for industrial use
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
  • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
  • F17C2270/00—Applications
  • F17C2270/07—Applications for household use

Definitions

• the invention relates to a compressed gas cylinder bundle, in which a plurality of compressed gas cylinders is received within a cuboid bundle rack, wherein the bundle frame projects beyond the outer dimensions of the compressed gas cylinders at least in vertical respect and has a bottom surface and a top horizontal surface bounding the bundle frame.
• the cylinder bundle is equipped with one or more extraction valves.
• Gas cylinder bundles of this type are described for example in DE 3 805 497 C1 or EP 0 230 904 A2.
• No. 6,067,913 A1 describes a stackable transport pallet for compressed gas cylinders.
• the range includes one on one with recesses for
• Intervening forklift-equipped pedestal mounted transport cage in which compressed gas cylinders of various sizes are set for transport can In order to stack the pallets during transport on a truck and to be able to sufficiently secure against the transport-related shocks, each corresponding to the pallets Rieht- and locking elements
• the straightening elements each include bevelled lateral
• Federmismusismus providing bolts, which engage in corresponding, arranged in the region of the upper horizontal surface of the lower pallet openings.
• the arrangement known from this document is very complex in construction and allows the retraction of the forklift when stacking the pallets only from a single direction. The conditions are also included
• Transport pallets only partially comparable with those of compressed gas cylinder bundles; So compressed gas cylinder bundles are equipped with piping and removal fittings, which ultimately also have an impact on the structure of the frame. Another difference is that the device of said pallet serves for stackability during transport, while the
• Inventive device of the stackability of the bundle in a stationary storage is used.
• the invention is therefore an object of the invention to provide a particular stackability for a stationary storage suitable compressed gas cylinder bundle, which is easy to stack in construction and straightforward.
• Horizontal surface protrude a plurality of centering elements which correspond at least with a centering opening in the bottom surface.
• the centering elements are with profile elements on the top
• Horizontal surface of the bundle rack arranged or itself part of the cuboid bundle rack are, fixed or detachably connected or made in one piece with these. Centering and centering or centering
• each other i. they are arranged within the respective surface such that when stacking the compressed gas cylinder bundle the centering of the respective lower bundle engage in the centering opening (s) of each upper bundle and thus the upper compressed gas cylinder bundle at the bottom
• the centering elements are arranged such that during
• centering opening (s) of each upper bundle the side surfaces of the stacked bundles are substantially flush with each other.
• the centering elements are preferably configured such that centering takes place automatically during stacking. If other protruding elements, such as lifting eyes, arranged on the upper horizontal surface must of course be taken by appropriate measures to ensure that this stackability of
• Compressed gas cylinder bundles do not stand in the way;
• the lifting eye opposite the upper horizontal surface can be offset downwards or arranged to be retractable, or in the bottom surface a corresponding recess is provided, projecting into the staple case, the transport eye.
• the transport eyelet or the transport eyelets themselves as centering elements, which in the case of staples engage in corresponding centering openings on the bottom side.
• compressed gas cylinder bundle according to the invention thus enables a secure stacking during a stationary storage, at the same time easy to handle removal or addition of bundles from or to the stack.
• each centering element on the upper horizontal surface is a centering opening in the bottom surface of the
• Assigned bundle rack For example, if there are four centering elements on the upper horizontal surface, four centering openings are provided in this embodiment, which are adapted to the centering elements in shape and size.
• Centering and centering are arranged in their respective surface at the same point, so that when engaging the centering of a
• the centering elements are tapered, with a arranged in the region of the upper horizontal surface base, which also has the largest cross-sectional area of the centering, and with one of the
• Horizontal plane remote end portion having a smaller cross-sectional area than the base and is formed for example as a tip.
• the centering elements are for this purpose respectively pyramidal,
• the centering openings in the bottom surface are each adapted to the base diameter of the centering elements in order to stack
• a centering opening in the bottom surface is assigned a plurality of centering elements on the upper horizontal surface.
• several centering elements of the respective lower arranged bundle engage in a centering opening of the respective upper bundle, wherein the centering elements are arranged on at least two sides of the centering closely adjacent to the edges of the centering opening in order to achieve a reliable horizontal fixation. It is useful that the
• a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention provides that the bundle frame is equipped at its upper horizontal surface and at its bottom surface with spaced apart equally spaced surface profiles, and are provided as centering on the mutually facing edges of the top surface profiles upwardly bent profiles that in
• the surface profiles can also run band-shaped around the bundle frame, and with their
• Outer surfaces represent the outer boundary of the bundle, wherein in the region of the upper horizontal surface, the aforementioned centering elements are provided, which engage in the stacking case in the space between the surface profiles in the region of the bottom surface.
• suitable measures may further be provided, for example, further profiles which extend transversely to the mentioned surface profiles, or in the surface profiles the centering elements adapted recesses of the bottom surface are provided, or existing profiles of the frame of the
• Fig. 1 An inventive compressed gas cylinder bundle in a
• Fig. 2a An inventive bundle rack in another
• Fig. 2b The upside down bundled frame of Fig. 2a in one
• the compressed gas cylinder bundle 1 shown in FIG. 1 comprises a number of
• Compressed gas cylinders 2, 2 ', 2 " in a conventional manner within a
• Bundle rack 3 are added.
• the compressed gas cylinders 2, 2 ', 2 are fluidly connected to each other by a piping 5, to which, in a manner known per se, a pressure indicator 6 and a removal valve 7 with handwheel 8 and removal connection 9 are arranged
• a pressure indicator 6 and a removal valve 7 with handwheel 8 and removal connection 9 are arranged
• one or more additional bleed valves are possible, at which the removal of gas at the same pressure as at the bleed valve 9 or - with the interposition of a pressure reducer on the respective bleed valve - to reduced pressures is possible.
• the bundle frame 3 comprises an outer, in the embodiment cuboidal frame 1 1, for example, by welding together interconnected metal profiles, for example hollow sections made of steel.
• the frame 1 1 is like that
• Removal valve 7 within the outer edges of the frame 1 1 are arranged. Additional transverse bars 12, 13 serve in particular to a lateral
• the frame 1 1 further comprises a pallet-like bottom section 14, which makes it possible to intervene forklift trucks, which on its underside, ie the side, on which the pressurized gas cylinder bundle 1 is in the intended state, is equipped with a bottom plate 15, for example a bottom plate or a grid or a frame construction made of hollow profiles
• a bottom plate 15 for example a bottom plate or a grid or a frame construction made of hollow profiles
• the upper part of the frame 11 and the frame profile 12 define an access opening 16, through which the removal valve 7 is accessible and a gas supply line, not shown here on
• Removal port 9 can be mounted.
• the compressed gas cylinder bundle 1 is also equipped with centering elements 18, 18 ', which allow a secure stacking of several compressed gas cylinder bundles of the same type.
• centering elements 18, 18 ' are in the embodiment of several, for example four (of which in the side view in Fig. 1 are visible only two) conical or pyramid-shaped metal body provided, each connected to its base fixed to profiles of the frame 3, for example, welded are, which in the area of the frame 3 on the upper side
• the centering elements 18, 18 ' correspond to centering openings 20, 20' in the bottom plate 15.
• Centering openings 20, 20 'engage and the side surfaces 21, 21' of the stacked compressed gas cylinder bundles are substantially flush with each other.
• Figs. 2a and 2b show a reduced representation of a bundle frame for
• the bundle frame 25 of a compressed gas cylinder bundle shown in FIG. 2a comprises a substantially cuboidal frame 26 of hollow profiles, within which a plurality of pressurized gas cylinders - which are not shown here for reasons of clarity - are accommodated together with piping and removal connections in such a way that the outer edges of the Bundle rack 25 the outer dimensions of the set pressurized gas cylinders and overhang the piping.
• transverse bars 27 are provided in order to protect the compressed gas cylinders from falling out.
• the bundle frame 25 comprises a top horizontal surface 28 terminating the bundle frame and a bottom surface 29. Surface profiles 30, 30 'are arranged on the upper horizontal surface 28 of the bundle frame 25.
• the surface profiles 30, 30 ' are, for example, essentially rectangular metal sheets arranged parallel to one another at a predetermined distance A. On their mutually facing outer edges are the surface profiles 30, 30 'with upwardly obliquely bent and tapered centering 31, 31'; 32, 32 'equipped, for example, integrally formed with the surface profiles 30, 30' or fixedly connected to these, for example, are welded.
• a central spar 33 with welded eyelet 34 allows in a conventional manner the transport of compressed gas cylinder bundle by crane.
• Edge profiles 37, 37 'of the bundle frame 25 limited. Due to the oblique Aufbugs and the tapered configuration of the centering 31, 31 '; 32, 32 'occurs when stacking to an automatic centering of the stacked compressed gas cylinder bundles.
• the lifting lug 34 of the lower compressed gas cylinder bundle projects into the free space between the surface profiles 35, 35 'of the upper compressed gas cylinder bundle and thus does not hinder their stackability.
• the two surface profiles arranged transversely to the surface profiles 35, 35 'along the outer edges of the frame profile 25 are provided, by means of which likewise a fixation relative to a displacement to the front or rear (instead of a fixation by the edge profiles 27, 27 ') can be achieved.

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