CN205294827U - Long -range pneumatic quick -release box - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a long -range pneumatic quick -release box, including cylinder, control arm and execution arm, the cylinder passes through the gas -supply pipe and connects air feeder, the telescopic link of cylinder rotates with the afterbody of control arm to be connected the telescopic link of cylinder is when retracted state, the prelude of control arm with the afterbody of carrying out the arm contacts, applys the restraining force to carrying out the arm, makes the prelude of carrying out the arm contact with automatic urgent separation device to the locking automatic urgent separation device can't break away from, when air feeder stretches out to cylinder gas transmission control telescopic link, the prelude of control arm breaks away from with the afterbody of carrying out the arm, relieves the restraint to carrying out the arm, make the prelude of carrying out the arm with automatic urgent separation device breaks away from, relieves automatic urgent separation device's lock -out state. Adopt the utility model discloses a long -range pneumatic quick -release box can avoid automatic urgent separation device to take place the malfunction, and then reduces the emergence of dangerous accidents such as former oil leakage, has guaranteed going on smoothly of oil transportation operation.
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Technical field
The utility model belongs to lock technology field, specifically, relates to one and is applied on oil transfer arm, for the lock structure automatic emergency separation device on oil transfer arm being realized locking or unlock.
Background technology
Oil transfer arm realizes a kind of special operation equipment docking handling oil product with boats and ships on port and pier. Harbour oil transfer arm is installed on harbour and fixes or on floating terminal, be the coupling device between oil tanker and harbour pipeline, completes the shipment of oil product and task of unloading a ship, it is possible to for the handling of other liquid medium, is a kind of high efficiency handling tool.
Oil transfer arm is generally made up of column, interior arm, outer arm, rotary joint and the pipe connector that is connected with the oil-collecting hole of oil tanker, in oil loading process, first the flange of the flange of pipe connector end with oil tanker oil-collecting hole end is docked, reliably dock with oil tanker ground to realize oil transfer arm. In oil product course of conveying, oil tanker may drift about with wave, and when oil tanker floats dynamic in normal range of drift, the piping of oil transfer arm can be servo-actuated with oil tanker. When causing the hawser on oil tanker to be pulled off due to some oneself factor or extraneous factor, such as oil tanker cable car is malfunctioning, hurricane, tide, hawser are shabby etc. when causing the drift distance of oil tanker to exceed normal range, what will make oil transfer arm is stretched beyond its limit position, then causes oil transfer arm to damage. Now, such as, in order to guarantee oil transfer arm safety, it is necessary to configuring a set of automatic emergency separation device on oil transfer arm, two ball valve promptly departs from joint, specifically can be arranged on the pipe connector of oil transfer arm. During oil transfer arm normal operation, two ball valve promptly departs from joint and keeps connection state, and the oil circuit being connected between oil transfer arm and oil tanker. When the pulling force being subject on oil transfer arm exceedes the secure threshold of setting, first Controlling System on harbour controls pump oil line and closes, then two ball valve is driven promptly to depart from joint separation, pipe connector is made to be divided into two sections, realize the disengaging of oil transfer arm and oil tanker, and realize closing of oil circuit by ball valve, then while avoiding oil transfer arm to suffer damage, it is possible to prevent crude oil leakage on the deck of oil tanker.
But, in actual use, its performance is not very stable to existing this kind of automatic emergency separation device, it is easy to flase operation occur.When oil transfer arm is during performing normal oil transportation operation, if automatic emergency separation device flase operation occurs and causes oil transfer arm and oil tanker to depart from, then serious consequence will be produced. Such as, when the conveying flow velocity of oil product reaches 6000 cubic metres per hour, if now oil transfer arm and oil tanker surprisingly depart from, owing to oil pumping system is also in continuation work, the ball valve of separation can be rushed to open under the effect of oil circuit pressure, causes the leakage of crude oil, will reveal the oil product of 1.66 cubes in the time in a second, with regard to the heavy consequences such as crude oil on oil tanker deck spreads unchecked, crude oil falls sea, fire, blast will be caused in the time in this second, bring huge loss to enterprise and country.
Practical novel content
The utility model causes oil leak because of its automatic emergency separation device flase operation in order to solve existing oil transfer arm during normal operation, then the problem of serious consequence is caused, propose a kind of long-range pneumatic disengaging lock, can effectively avoid the generation of automatic emergency separation device flase operation, it is to increase the reliability of automatic emergency separation device work.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the utility model is achieved by the following technical solutions:
A kind of long-range pneumatic disengaging lock, be arranged on oil transfer arm or be arranged on oil transfer arm automatic emergency separation device on, for described automatic emergency separation device is locked or unlocked, comprise cylinder, control arm and actuator arms; Described cylinder connects air feeder by pneumatic tube, the expansion link of described cylinder and the afterbody of described control arm are rotationally connected, when the expansion link of described cylinder is in retracted mode, the stem of described control arm contacts with the afterbody of described actuator arms, actuator arms is applied restraint force, the stem of actuator arms is contacted with automatic emergency separation device, cannot depart to lock automatic emergency separation device; When air feeder stretches out to cylinder gas transmission control expansion link, the stem of described control arm and the afterbody of actuator arms depart from, release the constraint to actuator arms, the stem of actuator arms and described automatic emergency separation device are departed from, releases the locking state of automatic emergency separation device.
In order to the convenient air inlet to described cylinder controls, it is preferable that install an air valve on described pneumatic tube, to described cylinder air feed or stop air feed by operating air feeder described in described Air Valve Control.
Further, in described long-range pneumatic disengaging is locked, also it being provided with backplate, the middle position of described control arm and described actuator arms is connected on described backplate by axis of rotation respectively, and described backplate is arranged on described automatic emergency separation device.
Preferably, described backplate comprises two blocks of parallel relative side plates, is respectively interior side plate and outer side plate; Described interior side plate is fixedly mounted on described automatic emergency separation device by a fixed block, interior side plate and outer side plate interval are arranged, and by back up pad reinforcement by connection, described control arm and described actuator arms are arranged on by described rotating shaft between described interior side plate and outer side plate, and the stem of actuator arms stretches out described backplate.
Further again, in described long-range pneumatic disengaging is locked, also it is provided with air cylinder support, one end of described air cylinder support is fixedly connected with described backplate, and the other end is connected with described rotational cylinder.
Preferably, it is relative that the side that described backplate connects air cylinder support connects a side position of described actuator arms with described backplate.
Preferably, the stem of described control arm is formed hook-shaped, forms one section of plane extended internally by end in the inner side of hook-shaped stem;Afterbody in described actuator arms forms the ladder face of one section of inside indentation, and when the expansion link of described cylinder is in retracted mode, described ladder face coordinates with the described plane contact of described control arm, it is achieved control arm is to the constraint of actuator arms.
Preferably, described automatic emergency separation device is that two ball valve promptly departs from joint, promptly depart from joint at described pair of ball valve and it is provided with and the gangbar of ball valve linkage, when the expansion link of described cylinder is in retracted mode, the stem of described actuator arms contacts with described gangbar, stops described pair of ball valve promptly to depart from joint by locking gangbar and departs from.
Further, stem in described actuator arms is formed with one section of backstop table top outwards stretched out, when the expansion link of described cylinder is in retracted mode, described backstop table top supports the end that gangbar is stated in residence, the direction stoping described gangbar promptly to depart from joint disengaging to two ball valve is moved, thus realize the locking that two ball valve is promptly departed from joint, avoid two ball valve promptly to depart from joint and flase operation occurs.
Compared with prior art, advantage of the present utility model and positively effect be: the utility model by installing long-range pneumatic disengaging lock on the automatic emergency separation device of oil transfer arm, the locking state of automatic emergency separation device is kept by long-range pneumatic disengaging lock, avoid automatic emergency separation device generation flase operation, thus can ensure that oil transfer arm surprisingly can not depart from and cause the accident of crude oil leakage to occur because of automatic emergency separation device during normal oil transportation operation, it is ensured that carrying out smoothly of oil transportation operation. And when boats and ships drift about away from berth, catch fire, overload, the hazardous condition such as unexpected generation stormy weather, only need to lock air feed long-range to long-range pneumatic disengaging, its lock can be controlled and release the locking to described automatic emergency separation device, then by the separation of described automatic emergency separation device, realize the rapid disengaging of oil transfer arm and boats and ships, ensure that the security of oil transfer arm. Long-range pneumatic disengaging of the present utility model lock can bear bigger reactive force, use very little strength just can make it to open simultaneously, simple to operate, action response is rapid, and structure is simple, safe and reliable, various severe rugged environment can be competent at well, particularly in the hazardous location such as explosion-proof, whole process all can not produce any spark, be particularly useful for that gas concentration is relatively big and occasion that people can not enter.
After reading the detailed description that the utility model implements mode by reference to the accompanying drawings, other features of the present utility model and advantage will become clearly.
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Fig. 1 is the one-piece construction schematic diagram of a kind of embodiment that the long-range pneumatic disengaging lock that the utility model proposes is in the lock state;
Fig. 2 is the one-piece construction schematic diagram that the lock of long-range pneumatic disengaging shown in Fig. 1 is in a kind of embodiment of disengaging state;
Fig. 3 is the structural representation of a kind of embodiment of two in backplate shown in Fig. 1 block side plate.
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, embodiment of the present utility model is described in more detail.
The present embodiment is for the automatic emergency separation device on oil transfer arm, devise a set of long-range pneumatic disengaging lock, described automatic emergency separation device can be locked or unlocks, be equivalent to as automatic emergency separation device adds a set of insurance system, to avoid automatic emergency separation device generation flase operation, then ensure that oil transportation job safety carries out.
Shown in Figure 1, cylinder 10, control arm 20 and actuator arms 30 mainly it is provided with in the long-range pneumatic disengaging of the present embodiment is locked, it is locked on oil transfer arm for the ease of described long-range pneumatic disengaging or installation on automatic emergency separation device is fixed, the present embodiment is also provided with backplate 40 in described long-range pneumatic disengaging is locked, described control arm 20 and actuator arms 30 can be arranged on described backplate 40 actively, described control arm 20 and actuator arms 30 played a supporting role by backplate 40.
As a kind of preferred design of the present embodiment, it is possible to first installing a fixed block on automatic emergency separation device, described fixed block is outwardly laid relative to automatic emergency separation device; Then, backplate 40 is arranged on described fixed block, specifically it is arranged on one end that fixed block protrudes from automatic emergency separation device, utilize fixed block as middle bridge, thus just can realize the installation of backplate 40 on automatic emergency separation device and fix. In the present embodiment, described backplate 40 by parallel being formed by connecting relatively of two blocks of side plates, shown in composition graphs 3, can comprise interior side plate 41 and outer side plate 42. Parallel with outer side plate 42 for described interior side plate 41 relative row is established, middle ware is from a distance, back up pad 43 is arranged between described interior side plate 41 and outer side plate 42, and by fastening piece 44(such as screw and nut etc.) respectively described interior side plate 41 and outer side plate 42 are fixed on described back up pad 43, thus form described backplate 40.
Described control arm 20 and actuator arms 30 are rotatably connected on described backplate 40 by rotating shaft 24,34 respectively; specifically described control arm 20 and actuator arms 30 can be inserted between described interior side plate 41 and outer side plate 42, described backplate 40 then can be utilized it to be played a protective role. Described rotating shaft 24,34 is preferably mounted at the middle position of control arm 20 and actuator arms 30.
Air cylinder support 50 can be connected further in the side of described backplate 40, as shown in Figure 1, specifically by the fastening piece such as screw, bolt 51, one end of air cylinder support 50 can be fixedly mounted on described backplate 40. The other end at air cylinder support 50 can be rotationally connected by rotating shaft 52 and cylinder 10, is played a supporting role by cylinder 10. The afterbody 21 of the expansion link 11 of cylinder 10 with control arm 20 is rotationally connected, specifically at the end of expansion link 11, a rotating shaft 13 can be installed, the afterbody 21 of described control arm 20 is arranged in described rotating shaft 13, thus realizes being rotationally connected of control arm 20 and described expansion link 11. The stem 22 of control arm 20 is designed to hook-shaped, matches for the afterbody 31 with actuator arms 30, by the afterbody 31 of actuator arms 30 is retrained or constraint relief, then realize the locking to automatic emergency separation device by actuator arms 30 or release locking.
Specifically, it is possible to the stem 22 at control arm 20 forms one section of plane 23, specifically can be formed in the inner side of the unci of stem 22, and extend internally by the outer end of stem 22. Meanwhile, the afterbody 31 in described actuator arms 30 forms the ladder face 33 of one section of inside indentation, and as shown in Figure 1, described control arm 20 contacts cooperation by its plane 23 with the described ladder face 33 of actuator arms 30, to realize control arm 20 to the constraint of actuator arms 30.
Described actuator arms 30 is preferably mounted on backplate 40 and installs the relative side of air cylinder support 50, during actuator arms 30 is formed constraint by control arm 20, the stem 32 of described actuator arms 30 stretches out backplate 50, contact with automatic emergency separation device, and then realize the locking to automatic emergency separation device. In the present embodiment, the stem 32 of described actuator arms 30 also can be designed to hook-shaped, as shown in Figure 1, one section of backstop table top 35 outwards stretched out is formed in hook-shaped stem 32, described automatic emergency separation device is contacted by described backstop table top 35, stop automatic emergency separation device to perform disengaging action, thus realize the locking to automatic emergency separation device.Specifically, when described automatic emergency separation device promptly departs from joint for two ball valve, two ball valves of described joint, when joint combines and departs from, all can drive the gangbar being connected with ball valve servo-actuated. In this case, the stem 32 of actuator arms 30 can be contacted with described gangbar, the backstop table top 35 of actuator arms 30 stem 32 is such as utilized to support the end of gangbar, move with the direction stoping described gangbar promptly to depart from joint disengaging to two ball valve, two ball valves are stoped to depart from by limiting the movement of gangbar, thus just can realize promptly being departed from by two ball valve the locking of joint, avoid two ball valve promptly to depart from joint generation flase operation.
The concrete principle of work of the long-range pneumatic disengaging lock of the present embodiment is: by pneumatic tube, the inlet mouth 12 of cylinder 10 is connected air feeder on the bank, for the ease of control, it is possible to install air valve on pneumatic tube. When oil transfer arm successfully docks with oil tanker, when performing normal oil transportation operation, air valve is closed, and the expansion link 11 of cylinder 10 is in retracted mode, as shown in Figure 1. Now, the stem 22 of control arm 20 contacts with the afterbody 31 of actuator arms 30, actuator arms 30 is applied restraint force, the stem 32 of actuator arms 30 is kept to be resisted against the end of gangbar all the time, then stop two ball valve promptly to depart from joint to depart from, two ball valve is promptly departed from joint lock, to guarantee carrying out smoothly of oil transportation operation.
When occurring that oil tanker occurs drift and drift distance to exceed normal range or occur that emergency situation needs control oil transfer arm to be separated with oil tanker, air valve can be opened, by air feeder to cylinder 10 air feed, the expansion link 11 of cylinder 10 is stretched out, promote the afterbody 21 of control arm 20 to move downward. Now, the stem 22 of control arm 20 is upwards moved, and departs from the afterbody 31 of actuator arms 30, releases the constraint to actuator arms 30, as shown in Figure 2. Now, actuator arms 30 is under the effect of self gravitation, rotate along clockwise direction taking rotating shaft 34 as axle center, namely afterbody 31 moves downward, stem 32 is upwards moved, and the stem 32 of actuator arms 30 is departed from gangbar, releases the locking that two ball valve promptly departs from joint, allow two ball valve promptly to depart from joint and perform disengaging action, to guarantee the safety of oil transfer arm.
The long-range pneumatic disengaging Lock Lee control arm 20 of the present embodiment and the perfect adaptation of actuator arms 30, tacit agreement action, make to depart from lock and can effectively keep or release the locking to automatic emergency separation device existing on oil transfer arm, so just substantially improve the reliability of automatic emergency separation device work. Staff is in case of emergency, only need to operate the automatic emergency separation device unblock that a slight air valve just can control to dock on oil tanker oil transfer arm, it is allowed to perform disengaging action, thus root, stopped the generation of automatic emergency separation device flase operation, avoid the serious consequence caused because of automatic emergency separation device flase operation, it is ensured that normally carrying out of oil transportation operation.
Certainly; above-mentioned explanation is not to restriction of the present utility model; the utility model is also not limited in above-mentioned citing, change, remodeling, interpolation or the replacement that those skilled in the art make in essential scope of the present utility model, also should belong to protection domain of the present utility model.
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1. long-range pneumatic disengaging lock, be arranged on oil transfer arm or be arranged on oil transfer arm automatic emergency separation device on, for described automatic emergency separation device is locked or unlocks, it is characterised in that: comprise cylinder, control arm and actuator arms; Described cylinder connects air feeder by pneumatic tube, the expansion link of described cylinder and the afterbody of described control arm are rotationally connected, when the expansion link of described cylinder is in retracted mode, the stem of described control arm contacts with the afterbody of described actuator arms, actuator arms is applied restraint force, the stem of actuator arms is contacted with automatic emergency separation device, cannot depart to lock automatic emergency separation device; When air feeder stretches out to cylinder gas transmission control expansion link, the stem of described control arm and the afterbody of actuator arms depart from, release the constraint to actuator arms, the stem of actuator arms and described automatic emergency separation device are departed from, releases the locking state of automatic emergency separation device.
2. long-range pneumatic disengaging according to claim 1 lock, it is characterised in that: on described pneumatic tube, air valve is installed.
3. long-range pneumatic disengaging according to claim 1 lock, it is characterized in that: also comprise backplate, the middle position of described control arm and described actuator arms is connected on described backplate by axis of rotation respectively, and described backplate is arranged on described automatic emergency separation device.
4. long-range pneumatic disengaging according to claim 3 lock, it is characterised in that: described backplate comprises two blocks of parallel relative side plates, is respectively interior side plate and outer side plate; Described interior side plate is fixedly mounted on described automatic emergency separation device by a fixed block, interior side plate and outer side plate interval are arranged, and by back up pad reinforcement by connection, described control arm and described actuator arms are arranged on by described rotating shaft between described interior side plate and outer side plate, and the stem of actuator arms stretches out described backplate.
5. long-range pneumatic disengaging according to claim 3 lock, it is characterised in that: also comprising air cylinder support, one end of described air cylinder support is fixedly connected with described backplate, and the other end is connected with described rotational cylinder.
6. long-range pneumatic disengaging according to claim 5 lock, it is characterised in that: the side position that the side of described backplate connection air cylinder support connects described actuator arms with described backplate is relative.
7. long-range pneumatic disengaging according to claim 1 lock, it is characterised in that: the stem of described control arm is formed hook-shaped, forms one section of plane extended internally by end in the inner side of hook-shaped stem; Afterbody in described actuator arms forms the ladder face of one section of inside indentation, and when the expansion link of described cylinder is in retracted mode, described ladder face coordinates with the described plane contact of described control arm.
8. long-range pneumatic disengaging according to any one of claim 1 to 7 lock, it is characterized in that: described automatic emergency separation device is that two ball valve promptly departs from joint, the gangbar being provided with described ball valve links promptly is departed from joint at described pair of ball valve, when the expansion link of described cylinder is in retracted mode, the stem of described actuator arms contacts with described gangbar, stops described pair of ball valve promptly to depart from joint by locking gangbar and departs from.
9. long-range pneumatic disengaging according to claim 8 lock, it is characterized in that: the stem in described actuator arms forms one section of backstop table top outwards stretched out, when the expansion link of described cylinder is in retracted mode, described backstop table top supports the end that gangbar is stated in residence, and the direction stoping described gangbar promptly to depart from joint disengaging to two ball valve is moved.
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