Background technique
Fast development along with China's economy, rock gas has been subjected to more and more people's approval as a kind of novel clean energy resource, the city that the rock gas of take is main energy sources is more and more, the automobile that the rock gas of take is the energy is also more and more, the consumption of compressed natural gas and the quantity of gas station constantly increase, and for the mounting-and-dismounting device of compressed natural gas, are also increasing.Up to 25MPa, have the break danger of blast of reservoir vessel and conveyance conduit due to the pressure of compressed natural gas, it is also inflammable and explosive dangerous goods simultaneously, the danger of have burning, exploding.At present, the mounting-and-dismounting device of compressed natural gas is all to adopt flexible pipe.But, use external inlet hose to have following shortcoming: 1, operator are when the handling compressed natural gas, decontrol before operative installations and with after pack up flexible pipe, need 5 meters flexible pipes how long in tow to adjust the position of loading hatch in order to be connected with the compressed natural gas loading vehicles, because flexible pipe has certain hardness and weight, malfunction, increased operator's labor intensity; 2, with steel pipe, compare, the bearing capacity of flexible pipe is low, therefore, in handling compressed natural gas process, explosion sometimes occurs, reveals and causes security incident; 3, because flexible pipe and pipe joint adopt the mode of withholding, be connected, the pull-off phenomenon easily occurs in the two, so that the compressive resistance impact capacity is low; 4, flexible pipe in use, easily produces static, has the danger that produces fire and blast; 5, in use, due to the frequent retracting hose of needs, and the stand of compressed natural gas loading vehicles is fixing, so that flexible pipe will often pull and haul a man on the ground, with ground, produces friction and causes wearing and tearing; 6, in use, tiling is dilatory on the ground for flexible pipe, if with after forget and pack up, even can be injured by a crashing object and be rolled bad by vehicle; 7, flexible pipe in use, the acting in conjunction that be subject to the corrosion of inner rock gas and outside wind, Exposure to Sunlight, drenches with rain, easily aging, the life-span is short.External inlet hose, be only 6 months quality guarantee period, generally uses 1 year, do not allow to continue to use; 8, external inlet hose is expensive and need the cost foreign exchange, and working life, short shortcoming further increased again user cost, if long term purchase will increase national foreign exchange burden.
Because flexible pipe has the energy bending, often for delivery of fluid, comprise on the pipeline or equipment of liquids and gases, at present, the mounting-and-dismounting device of compressed natural gas (CNG) just adopts flexible pipe.In order to make the pipeline that steel pipe forms can be applicable to carry fluid, the pipeline transformation that just steel pipe need to be formed becomes can be movable and can adjust pipeline and import and export position, and universal method is the swivel joint joint steel pipe that use can mutually be rotated and can be sealed.The structure of the swivel joint used at present exists following shortcoming to be usually: 1, adopt two raceways and steel ball rotational structure: turning the two raceways of processing on core and shell, steel ball is installed in raceway, but because the difficulty of raceway processing is large, be difficult to arrive higher geometric accuracy and axial position dimensional accuracy, this structure has also been brought great inconvenience to the installation and removal of swivel joint; 2, edge face sealing member only is set one: the single-end face seal only is installed between the end face that turns core and flange gland, is only had one end face seal, sealing reliability is poor, once lose efficacy, will produce leakage; The seal groove of 3 Sealings be with contacted two part end faces of Sealing on processing seam form, end face is rough and uneven in surface, is difficult to improve surface flatness, the contact condition of Sealing and end face is bad; 4, for the manufacture of the material of swivel joint, do not heat-treat, hardness is too low, if use Austenitic Stainless Steel, heat treatment can not improve hardness yet.Although some material heat treatment can improve hardness, but have the defect of being out of shape, kinematic accuracy and robust motion are existed to adverse effect, also affect the dimensional accuracy of seal groove simultaneously, sealing is difficult to guarantee.Owing to there being the problems referred to above, current swivel joint can only can not be used for the gas materials handling equipment below 2MPa on pressurized gas equipment, particularly can not be applicable to the handling arm of pressure up to the compressed natural gas of 25MPa.
The pipeline problem that structural defect can't be loaded and unloaded compressed natural gas because swivel joint exists for only loading and unloading compressed natural gas by flexible pipe in prior art, be made by steel pipe, not yet propose effective solution at present.
Summary of the invention
For the pipeline problem that structural defect can't be loaded and unloaded compressed natural gas because swivel joint exists that only can load and unload compressed natural gas by flexible pipe in prior art, be made by steel pipe, effective solution is not yet proposed at present, for this reason, main purpose of the present invention is to provide a kind of swivel joint, comprise the handling arm of this swivel joint, comprise the materials handling equipment of this handling arm, to address the above problem.
The technical solution adopted for the present invention to solve the technical problems is: according to a first aspect of the invention, a kind of swivel joint 12 is provided, comprise flange gland 1, housing 2, turn core 3, housing 2 one ends are connected with flange gland 1, the other end is connected with the core 3 that turns in being placed in its chamber, described turning between core 3 and housing 2 is equipped with a plurality of radial bearings 5 and/or thrust-bearing 4, between the described opposing end surface that turns core 3 and flange gland 1, is provided with double sealing device 6.
Further, according to the swivel joint 12 of first aspect present invention, wherein, an end of described thrust-bearing 4 fixedly is placed between radial bearing 5 housing 2 bottoms and the interior ring of radial bearing 5.
Further, according to the swivel joint 12 of first aspect present invention, wherein, between described thrust-bearing 4 and radial bearing 5 devices, be provided with half-round clamping ring 7; Described half-round clamping ring 7 is set in the circular groove that turns core 3 outsides; Described half-round clamping ring 7 outer cover are equipped with snap ring setting sleeve 8.
Further, according to the swivel joint 12 of first aspect present invention, wherein, described double sealing device 6 comprises in annulus stuffing box gland 9, end face to sealing 10, sealing support overcoat 11;
Described core 3 places, end face inside edge that turn are provided with the first circular groove, and described flange gland is provided with second circular groove corresponding with the first circular groove on 1 end face inside edge, and described annulus stuffing box gland 9 is placed in the chamber of the first circular groove and the second circular groove formation;
The described core 3 end face outer ledge places that turn are provided with the 3rd circular groove, and sealing is supported overcoat 11 and is placed in the 3rd circular groove, in end face, to sealing 10, are placed in the chamber that sealing is supported overcoat 11, annulus stuffing box gland 9, turned core 3 end faces, flange gland 1 end face forms.
Provide a kind of handling arm according to second aspect present invention, its swivel joint that comprises first aspect present invention 12, wherein, described handling arm comprises interior revoliving arm 13, outer revoliving arm 14, the lower end of interior revoliving arm 13 is provided with swivel joint 12;
Described outer revoliving arm 14 comprises rotary unit 15, outer revolution pipeline 16, the moving channel 17 of the realized substantially horizontal that consists of swivel joint 12 and vertical direction rotation, one end of outer revolution pipeline 16 is connected with interior revoliving arm 13 by rotary unit 15, and the other end is connected with moving channel 17 by rotary unit 15;
Described interior revoliving arm 13 comprises vertical pipeline 18 and horizontal pipeline 19, and described vertical pipeline 18 upper ends are connected with horizontal pipeline 19 by tee union 20.
Further, handling arm according to second aspect present invention, wherein, described rotary unit 15 comprises two swivel joints 12, three elbows 21, wherein the lower end of first swivel joint 12 and first elbow 21 to upper end-hole be connected, upper end is connected to lower end mouth with the second elbow 21, the horizontal port of second elbow 21 is connected with the left end of second swivel joint 12, and the right-hand member of second swivel joint 12 is connected with one of them horizontal port of the 3rd elbow 21 of horizontal positioned.
Further, according to the handling arm of second aspect present invention, wherein, described handling arm also comprises Spring balancer 22; Rotating shaft on the cylinder body of described Spring balancer 22 29 is hinged with the bearing be fixed on outer revoliving arm 14, and the telescopic lever of Spring balancer 22 is with to be fixed on second arm-tie on swivel joint 12 hinged.
A kind of materials handling equipment are provided according to a third aspect of the invention we, and it comprises the handling arm according to second aspect present invention, wherein,
Described materials handling equipment comprise column support 23, bearing housing, bearing 24, rapid pipe joint 25, inlet-outlet connector 26, described bearing 24 is connected with column support 23 by the bearing housing that is arranged on column support 23 tops, described bearing 24 is connected with the tee union 20 on the handling arm by axle 29, described rapid pipe joint 25 is connected with the moving channel 17 on the handling arm, and described inlet-outlet connector 26 is connected with the swivel joint 12 of interior revoliving arm 13 lower ends of handling arm by supporting elbow axle 27.
Further, according to the materials handling equipment of third aspect present invention, wherein, between described support elbow axle 27 and inlet-outlet connector 26, be provided with ball valve 28.
Further, according to the materials handling equipment of third aspect present invention, wherein, described materials handling equipment are compressed natural gas materials handling equipment.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows: by the present invention, adopt the present invention, the housing 2 of swivel joint 12 and turn between core 3 a plurality of bearings 24 that arrange, improved rotating property and flexibility, radial force is born by radial bearing 5, can bear axial force by thrust-bearing 4, it is more reasonable to carry, alleviated the load of radial bearing 5, extended the life-span of bearing 24, the maintenance easy accessibility; Adopt two seals, extended working life, increased reliable, the Security of sealing, and then be applicable to the use of pressure up to the handling arm of the compressed natural gas of 25MPa.Being used in combination of the rotary unit 15 formed by swivel joint 12 and swivel joint 12 can be realized loading and unloading arm and arrive arbitrary position in the scope required.Materials handling equipment adopt the steel framework structure, by column support 23, fix on the ground, and all weight is born by column support 23, without operator, bears, the vertical pipeline 18 that steel pipe forms, horizontal pipeline 19 and outer revolution pipeline 16 by with being used in combination of swivel joint 12 and the rotary unit 15 that formed by swivel joint 12, can realize loading and unloading the arm vertical direction, any rotation of substantially horizontal, can make rapid pipe joint 25 adjust to flexibly the handling desired location, in order to rapid pipe joint 25 and the vehicle container of transport natural gas are achieved a butt joint conveniently, flexibly, and steel pipe is higher with respect to the bearing capacity of flexible pipe, in the process of handling compressed natural gas, not there will be explosion, reveal and cause security incident, can corrode and outside wind by the inner rock gas of tolerance, Exposure to Sunlight, the acting in conjunction drenched with rain, be difficult for aging, in use, owing to not needing folding and unfolding pipeline and device, and the ,Yu ground, the unsettled disengaging of component ground such as pipeline and swivel joint 12 do not produce friction, have avoided wearing and tearing.
Embodiment
It should be noted that, in the situation that do not conflict, embodiment and the feature in embodiment in the application can combine mutually.Describe below with reference to the accompanying drawings and in conjunction with the embodiments the present invention in detail.
The described swivel joint 12 of the present embodiment, can comprise flange gland 1, housing 2, turn core 3, housing 2 one ends are connected with flange gland 1, the other end is connected with the core 3 that turns in being placed in its chamber, described turning between core 3 and housing 2 is equipped with a plurality of radial bearings 5 and/or thrust-bearing 4, between the described opposing end surface that turns core 3 and flange gland 1, is provided with double sealing device 6.
Concrete mode of execution one, as shown in Figure 1, wherein, described swivel joint 12 can comprise flange gland 1, housing 2, turn core 3, housing 2 one ends are connected with flange gland 1, the other end is connected with the core 3 that turns in being placed in its chamber, and described turning between core 3 and housing 2 is equipped with a thrust-bearing 4 and two radial bearings 5, in the middle of described two radial bearings 5, is provided with inner support cover and outer support cover; Be provided with double sealing device 6 between the described opposing end surface that turns core 3 and flange gland 1.
Embodiment two, as shown in Figure 2, wherein, described swivel joint 12 can comprise flange gland 1, housing 2, turn core 3, housing 2 one ends are connected with flange gland 1, the other end is connected with the core 3 that turns in being placed in its chamber, and described turning between core 3 and housing 2 is equipped with a thrust-bearing 4 and three radial bearings 5; Be provided with double sealing device 6 between the described opposing end surface that turns core 3 and flange gland 1.
Embodiment three, as shown in Figure 3, wherein, described swivel joint 12 also can comprise flange gland 1, housing 2, turn core 3, housing 2 one ends are connected with flange gland 1, the other end is connected with the core 3 that turns in being placed in its chamber, and described turning between core 3 and housing 2 is equipped with two radial bearings 5, in the middle of described two radial bearings 5, is provided with inner support cover and outer support cover; Be provided with double sealing device 6 between the described opposing end surface that turns core 3 and flange gland 1.
Embodiment four, as shown in Figure 4, wherein, described swivel joint 12 also can comprise flange gland 1, housing 2, turn core 3, housing 2 one ends are connected with flange gland 1, and the other end is connected with the core 3 that turns in being placed in its chamber, and described turning between core 3 and housing 2 is equipped with three radial bearings 5; Be provided with double sealing device 6 between the described opposing end surface that turns core 3 and flange gland 1.
Embodiment five, as shown in Figure 5, wherein, described swivel joint 12 also can comprise flange gland 1, housing 2, turn core 3, housing 2 one ends are connected with flange gland 1, and the other end is connected with the core 3 that turns in being placed in its chamber, and described turning between core 3 and housing 2 is equipped with two radial bearings 5; Be provided with double sealing device 6 between the described opposing end surface that turns core 3 and flange gland 1.
Concrete, wherein, described swivel joint 12 also can comprise flange gland 1, housing 2, turn core 3, and housing 2 one ends are connected with flange gland 1, and the other end is connected with the core 3 that turns in being placed in its chamber, and described turning between core 3 and housing 2 is equipped with thrust-bearing 4; The described end that contacts that turns core 3 and flange gland 1 is provided with double sealing device 6.
By the present invention, adopt the present invention, the housing 2 of swivel joint 12 and turn between core 3 a plurality of bearings 24 that arrange, improved rotating property and flexibility, radial force is born by radial bearing 5, can bear axial force by thrust-bearing 4, it is more reasonable to carry, alleviated the load of radial bearing 5, extended the life-span of bearing 24, the maintenance easy accessibility; Adopt two seals, increased reliability, the Security of sealing, extended working life, and then be applicable to the use of pressure up to the handling arm of the compressed natural gas of 25MPa.
According to the abovementioned embodiments of the present invention, wherein, an end of described thrust-bearing 4 fixedly is placed between housing 2 bottoms and the interior ring of radial bearing 5.Radial bearing 5 makes two joint units flexible rotating mutually, bear pipeline and on the gravity of component and the bending moment that produces of gravity, the setting of thrust-bearing 4 is in order to bear pressure fluid or gas at flange gland 1 and to turn the axial force produced between core 3.Flange gland 1 and housing 2 are bolted connection, and form firm shell, make to turn core 3, radial bearing 5, thrust-bearing 4 be arranged on turn on core 3 after and be positioned at the inside.
In the above embodiment of the present invention, wherein, between described thrust-bearing 4 and radial bearing 5 devices, be provided with half-round clamping ring 7; Described half-round clamping ring 7 is set in the circular groove that turns core 3 outsides; Described half-round clamping ring 7 outer cover are equipped with snap ring setting sleeve 8.The effect of half-round clamping ring 7 be fixedly radial bearing 5 at the axial position turned on core 3.
According to the abovementioned embodiments of the present invention, wherein, described double sealing device 6 comprises in annulus stuffing box gland 9, end face to sealing 10, sealing support overcoat 11;
Described core 3 places, end face inside edge that turn are provided with the first circular groove, and described flange gland is provided with second circular groove corresponding with the first circular groove on 1 end face inside edge, and described annulus stuffing box gland 9 is placed in the chamber of the first circular groove and the second circular groove formation; The described core 3 end face outer ledge places that turn are provided with the 3rd circular groove, and sealing is supported overcoat 11 and is placed in the 3rd circular groove, in end face, to sealing 10, are placed in the chamber that sealing is supported overcoat 11, annulus stuffing box gland 9, turned core 3 end faces, flange gland 1 end face forms.Double sealing has increased the reliability of sealing, and this two seals is all to deform under the effect of interior media pressure, and it is fitted on the part be in contact with it more closely, and pressure is higher, seal tighter.In order to improve machining accuracy and surface roughness, the sealing surface of these two parts is designed to plane for the manufacturability of improving the seal face that turns core 3 and 1 two parts of flange gland, there is no seam, be easy to processing.Support overcoat 11 in order radially fixedly to have increased sealing to sealing 10 in end face, sealing is simultaneously supported overcoat 11 and has also been played the effect that axial restraint compresses radial bearing 5.
In the above embodiment of the present invention, according to the swivel joint 12 of first aspect present invention, wherein, also can between described housing 2 and flange gland 1, be provided with O type circle 30; Described housing 2 and turn between core 3 and be provided with Glais ring 31.
The present invention also provides a kind of handling arm, can comprise any one swivel joint 12 in above-described embodiment, and wherein, described handling arm comprises interior revoliving arm 13, outer revoliving arm 14, and the lower end of interior revoliving arm 13 is provided with swivel joint 12; This swivel joint 12 can make interior revoliving arm 13 turn round around Z axis around vertical shaft rotating in horizontal plane.
Described outer revoliving arm 14 comprises rotary unit 15, outer revolution pipeline 16, the moving channel 17 of the realized substantially horizontal that consists of swivel joint 12 and vertical direction rotation, one end of outer revolution pipeline 16 is connected with interior revoliving arm 13 by rotary unit 15, and the other end is connected with moving channel 17 by rotary unit 15;
Described interior revoliving arm 13 comprises vertical pipeline 18 and horizontal pipeline 19, and described vertical pipeline 18 upper ends are connected with horizontal pipeline 19 by tee union 20.
By the present invention, adopt the present invention, the housing 2 of swivel joint 12 and turn between core 3 a plurality of bearings 24 that arrange, improved rotating property and flexibility, radial force is born by radial bearing 5, can bear axial force by thrust-bearing 4, it is more reasonable to carry, alleviated the load of radial bearing 5, extended the life-span of bearing 24, the maintenance easy accessibility; Adopt two seals, extended working life, increased reliable, the Security of sealing, and then be applicable to the use of pressure up to the handling arm of the compressed natural gas of 25MPa.Being used in combination of the rotary unit 15 formed by swivel joint 12 and swivel joint 12 can be realized loading and unloading arm and arrive arbitrary position in the scope required.
According to the abovementioned embodiments of the present invention, wherein, described rotary unit 15 comprises two swivel joints 12, three elbows 21, wherein the lower end of first swivel joint 12 and first pipe to upper end-hole be connected, upper end is connected to lower end mouth with the second elbow 21, the horizontal port of second elbow 21 is connected with the left end of second swivel joint 12, and the right-hand member of second swivel joint 12 is connected with one of them horizontal port of the 3rd elbow 21 of horizontal positioned.First swivel joint 12 turns round outer revoliving arm 14 and coupled component in horizontal plane around Z axis around vertical shaft rotating; Second swivel joint 12 makes outer revoliving arm 14 and coupled component rotate and turn round around the X/Y axle around horizontal axis in vertical plane
According to the abovementioned embodiments of the present invention, tilted supporter 32 is set between described standpipe and horizontal pipe, the two ends of tilted supporter 32 are connected with horizontal pipe respectively at standpipe.
In the above embodiment of the present invention, wherein, described handling arm also comprises Spring balancer 22; Rotating shaft on the cylinder body of described Spring balancer 22 29 is hinged with the bearing be fixed on outer revoliving arm 14, and the telescopic lever of Spring balancer 22 is with to be fixed on second arm-tie on swivel joint 12 hinged.Spring balancer 22 not only is used for the gravity of balance external revoliving arm 14 and the component that are connected, and can remain level, does not also affect when handling the handling arm up or down, and the function that it is swung up and down, in order to adjust the height of rapid pipe joint 25.
Fig. 6 is the structural representation according to the materials handling equipment of the embodiment of the present invention; These materials handling equipment, can comprise in above-described embodiment any one handling arm, wherein,
Described materials handling equipment comprise column support 23, bearing housing, bearing 24, rapid pipe joint 25, inlet-outlet connector 26,
Described bearing 24 is connected with column support 23 by the bearing housing that is arranged on column support 23 tops, described bearing 24 is connected with the tee union 20 on the handling arm by axle 29, described rapid pipe joint 25 is connected with the moving channel 17 on the handling arm, and described inlet-outlet connector 26 is connected with the swivel joint 12 of interior revoliving arm 13 lower ends of handling arm by supporting elbow axle 27.Wherein, described support elbow axle 27 also can be fixed on column support 23.Compressed natural gas can enter by the inlet-outlet connector 26 from being fixed on column support 23,, use as entrucking from rapid pipe joint 25 outputs through the handling arm, also can enter from rapid pipe joint 25, inlet-outlet connector 26 from being fixed on column support 23 out, as the use of unloading.
By the present invention, adopt the present invention, the housing 2 of swivel joint 12 and turn between core 3 a plurality of bearings 24 that arrange, improved rotating property and flexibility, radial force is born by radial bearing 5, can bear axial force by thrust-bearing 4, it is more reasonable to carry, alleviated the load of radial bearing 5, extended the life-span of bearing 24, the maintenance easy accessibility; Adopt two seals, extended working life, increased reliable, the Security of sealing, and then be applicable to the use of pressure up to the handling arm of the compressed natural gas of 25MPa.Materials handling equipment adopt the steel framework structure, by column support 23, fix on the ground, and all weight is born by column support 23, without operator, bears; Vertical pipeline 18, horizontal pipeline 19 and the outer revolution pipeline 16 that steel pipe forms by with being used in combination of swivel joint 12 and the rotary unit 15 that formed by swivel joint 12, can realize loading and unloading any rotation of arm vertical direction, substantially horizontal, the inlet-outlet connector 26 and the rapid pipe joint 25 that realize the handling arm can arrive any one position in the scope required, so as with the vehicle container joint of transport of compressed natural flexibly, dock easily.And steel pipe is higher with respect to the bearing capacity of flexible pipe, in the process of handling compressed natural gas, not there will be explosion, leakage and cause security incident, can tolerate that inner rock gas corrodes and outside wind, Exposure to Sunlight, the acting in conjunction that drenches with rain, be difficult for aging; In use, owing to not needing folding and unfolding pipeline and device, and the ,Yu ground, the unsettled disengaging of component ground such as pipeline and swivel joint 12 do not produce friction, have avoided wearing and tearing.
According to the abovementioned embodiments of the present invention, wherein, between described support elbow axle 27 and inlet-outlet connector 26, be provided with ball valve 28.When off working state, close ball valve 28, can in materials handling equipment, there is no gas medium, form two seals, safety and reliability with rapid pipe joint 25.
In the above embodiment of the present invention, according to the materials handling equipment of third aspect present invention, wherein, described materials handling equipment are compressed natural gas materials handling equipment.Compressed natural gas equipment in use, do not tile dilatory on the ground, unsettled disengaging ground all the time, do not exist with after forget and pack up, injured by a crashing object or pricked bad problem by vehicle.
Swivel joint 12 of the present invention, handling arm, materials handling equipment, whole equipment all adopts metallic material, does not produce static, avoids and the tank car oral area generation spark that bumps, and has avoided the danger due to generation of static electricity fire and blast.Between the swivel joint 12 and elbow 21 of rotary unit 15, between outer revoliving arm 14 and rotary unit 15, between interior turning unit and rotary unit 15, between interior turning unit swivel joint 12, be all by being welded to connect, do not produce pull-off, the compressive resistance impact capacity is high.
The foregoing is only the preferred embodiments of the present invention, be not limited to the present invention, for a person skilled in the art, the present invention can have various modifications and variations.Within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, any modification of doing, be equal to replacement, improvement etc., within all should being included in protection scope of the present invention.