WO2016114735A1 - Fire hydrant with adjustable length - Google Patents

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WO2016114735A1
WO2016114735A1 PCT/TR2016/000006 TR2016000006W WO2016114735A1 WO 2016114735 A1 WO2016114735 A1 WO 2016114735A1 TR 2016000006 W TR2016000006 W TR 2016000006W WO 2016114735 A1 WO2016114735 A1 WO 2016114735A1
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Dogan USTUNDAG
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Tekno Yangin Ve Havalandirma Sistemleri Ltd. Sti.
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03B—INSTALLATIONS OR METHODS FOR OBTAINING, COLLECTING, OR DISTRIBUTING WATER
    • E03B9/00—Methods or installations for drawing-off water
    • E03B9/02—Hydrants; Arrangements of valves therein; Keys for hydrants
    • E03B9/08—Underground hydrants
    • E03B9/12—Stand-pipes

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  • the present invention relates to the fire hydrants with their adjustable lengths, which are installed around roads, facilities and building, and that pressurized water supply is available permanently in the pipes connected to them, and which are used in special fire valves buried partially up to a particular depth of the soil to prevent water in them from freezing.
  • Hydrants mean inlets allocated for fire brigade to make connections during fire- fighting.
  • the fire trucks are provided by the hydrants installed at particular intervals outside the building, with water supply, or fire brigade responses to fire by connecting hoses directly. Connections of the hydrant lines are fed by the municipal water system or fire pumps at major administrations.
  • the hydrants are placed in areas, where the fire trucks may access and make connections easily during fire. Under regular conditions, they are placed around 5 to 15m far away from buildings.
  • Rated diameters of the fire hydrants are 80,100 and 150mm.
  • the fire hydrants are placed at intervals of 50m, 100m, 125m and 150m respectively in high risk areas, risk areas, medium risk areas and low risk areas.
  • Underground and aboveground type hydrants are manufactured.
  • the hydrants are installed on flat stones or concrete ground.
  • the automatic discharge equipment must be surrounded by any materials such small stones, gravels, etc.
  • the hose connection sleeves must not be attached 305mm lower than the ground. If the piping is constructed recently, the pipes must be cleaned thoroughly, before water supply is provided.
  • any burying depth may not be not adjusted in the hydrants manufactured in particular sizes (in fixed lengths), the prior art also become incompatible visually due to permanent variation length of the valves above ground.
  • soil burying depth of the hydrants vary according to climate conditions. Therefore, part of the hydrants remaining excessively under soil cause any technical problems.
  • Soil burying depths vary in a sloping land. Because a slope may never be calculated in sloping lands, part of the hydrant remaining under soil may not be adjustable properly. This causes any drawback.
  • each hydrant consists of a lower part and an upper part made of plastic material. Its lower part consists of a valve housing and a connection area. Its upper part consists of an axle housing and a connection area.
  • an underground hydrant having an upper part, which consists of an axle housing, an outlet port and a jacket boom, and in which an axle housing cap is sit in the axle housing, and a metal torque converter is placed in the axle housing.
  • the characteristic of this underground hydrant is that it has a small construction height as possible.
  • a new technology which may overcome the drawbacks set forth above, ensures that the hydrant length may be adjusted up or down to any desired level, and where the adjusted length is fixed, and which is simple to assemble, cost-effective, easy to install and simple to use, is required.
  • This invention is a fire hydrant with its adjustable length, which may overcome the drawbacks described above, and it is characterized that it is a system, which ensures that the hydrant length may be adjusted up or down finely and freely, presents an agricultural property in terms of its appearance, is simple to assemble, easy to install and cost-effective.
  • the present invention precludes separate manufacture of the hydrants in most sizes. It is possible to adjust length of the product during on-site installation.
  • the present invention has an telescopic embodiment design with its adjustable length. Because the hydrant length may be adjusted through the present invention, it get an edge over commercially and technically in hydrants. Because the components consisting the present invention may be fixed each other easily, and its installation period is short, it is cost-effective. Furthermore, the present investment has a robust embodiment. Structural and characteristic properties and all advantages of the invention shall be understood in the following figures and in the detailed description stated in reference to the figures.
  • Figure 1 A perspective view of the fire hydrant with its adjustable length.
  • Figure 2 A front view of the fire hydrant with its adjustable length.
  • Figure 3 A cross section view of the fire hydrant with its adjustable length.
  • Figure 4 A view of section of A.
  • FIG. 5 A different cross section view of the fire hydrant with its adjustable length.
  • the figures which shall give an understanding of the present invention, are enumerated as stated in the attached figure, and listed below together their designations. Description of the References:
  • the present invention consists of a main body (1) made of a cast material, a telescopic body (2), which enables to adjust the length of the hydrant by lowering or rising up to an adjusted height, and a telescopic body fastening body fastening flange fastening flange (3), which ensures that the telescopic body (2) is fixed at an adjusted height ( Figure-1 , Figure-4, Figure-5).
  • the present invention has a telescopic body (2) installed within a main body (1) ( Figure-4, Figure-5).
  • the present invention has a telescopic body fastening flange (3), which ensures that pressure is applied to the main body (1) to provide water impermeability (Figure-2, Figure-5).
  • the present invention has a telescopic body (1) made of a cast material ( Figure-4).
  • the present invention has a telescopic body fastening flange (3), which ensures that the hydrant length may be adjusted up or down finely and freely (Figure-5).
  • the present invention has a telescopic body fastening flange (3) consisting a lower flange (3.1), a connector (3.2) and a nut (3.3) ( Figure-4).
  • the present invention basically consists of a main body (1), a telescopic body (2) and a telescopic body fastening flange (3) (Figure-5).
  • the hydrant has a telescopic body (2) installed within its main body (1) ( Figure-1 , Figure-5).
  • the telescopic body fastening flange (3) enables to adjust down and up freely as long as the connectors (3.2) are not tightened ( Figure-4). Thus, the hydrant length may be adjusted finely.
  • the hydrant has a telescopic body fastening flange (3) and a connector (3.2), which passes through the lower flange (3.1) in lower side of the telescopic body fastening flange (3) upon adjustment of the hydrant length ( Figure-5).
  • the main body (1) On the main body (1), there is a valve On-Off mechanism and water outlets. Under the main body (1), there is a valve part ( Figure-1 , Figure-2).
  • the main body (1) bears any equipment such as drop valve, etc. to discharge water remaining on the upper side of the hydrant ( Figure-2).
  • the telescopic body (2) enables to adjust the length of the hydrant by lowering and rising up to an adjusted height within the main body (1) ( Figure-4).
  • the telescopic body fastening flange (3) ensures that the telescopic body (2) is fixed at an adjusted height and that pressure is made to the main body (1) to provide impermeability (Figure-4).
  • the telescopic body (2) and main body (1) of the hydrant are cast components ( Figure-5). They are applied by an anti-corrosion paint. Because the telescopic body fastening flange (3) is made of stainless steel and remains within the soil, it is clear of any possible corrosion effects (Figure-4).

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Abstract

A fire hydrants with a adjustable lengths, consisting of a main body (1) made of a cast material, a telescopic body (2), which enables to adjust the length of the hydrant by lowering or rising up to an adjusted height, and a telescopic body fastening body fastening flange (3), which ensures that the telescopic body (2) is fixed at an adjusted height.

Description

FIRE HYDRANT WITH ADJUSTABLE LENGTH Technical Field:
The present invention relates to the fire hydrants with their adjustable lengths, which are installed around roads, facilities and building, and that pressurized water supply is available permanently in the pipes connected to them, and which are used in special fire valves buried partially up to a particular depth of the soil to prevent water in them from freezing.
State of the Art: Hydrants mean inlets allocated for fire brigade to make connections during fire- fighting. During fire, the fire trucks are provided by the hydrants installed at particular intervals outside the building, with water supply, or fire brigade responses to fire by connecting hoses directly. Connections of the hydrant lines are fed by the municipal water system or fire pumps at major administrations. The hydrants are placed in areas, where the fire trucks may access and make connections easily during fire. Under regular conditions, they are placed around 5 to 15m far away from buildings. Rated diameters of the fire hydrants are 80,100 and 150mm. The fire hydrants are placed at intervals of 50m, 100m, 125m and 150m respectively in high risk areas, risk areas, medium risk areas and low risk areas. Underground and aboveground type hydrants are manufactured.
The hydrants are installed on flat stones or concrete ground. The automatic discharge equipment must be surrounded by any materials such small stones, gravels, etc. When the hydrants are installed, the hose connection sleeves must not be attached 305mm lower than the ground. If the piping is constructed recently, the pipes must be cleaned thoroughly, before water supply is provided.
Because any burying depth may not be not adjusted in the hydrants manufactured in particular sizes (in fixed lengths), the prior art also become incompatible visually due to permanent variation length of the valves above ground. In the existing system, soil burying depth of the hydrants vary according to climate conditions. Therefore, part of the hydrants remaining excessively under soil cause any technical problems. Soil burying depths vary in a sloping land. Because a slope may never be calculated in sloping lands, part of the hydrant remaining under soil may not be adjustable properly. This causes any drawback.
"The underground hydrants" are described in the patent application No.TR201208609. In this system, each hydrant consists of a lower part and an upper part made of plastic material. Its lower part consists of a valve housing and a connection area. Its upper part consists of an axle housing and a connection area. There is an underground hydrant having an upper part, which consists of an axle housing, an outlet port and a jacket boom, and in which an axle housing cap is sit in the axle housing, and a metal torque converter is placed in the axle housing. The characteristic of this underground hydrant is that it has a small construction height as possible.
In the utility model application No.TR200805887, "On-Off mechanism of the fire hydrant cap" is described. In this system, the aboveground hydrants, which are used as fire extinguishing components for protecting such embodiment against any possible fires and ensuring that the fire brigade intervene externally in fires, which cannot extinguished in first attempt, are associated with said cap, which allows to turn said hydrant on and off during fire, and it is characterized that said cap is positioned in the device opening created on said cap and in the eccentric opening created on said cap, and a system containing a device, which allows to turn said cap on and off, is described. In the utility/patent applications described above, the present embodiments of the hydrants are described. But, these hydrants have not a system, which ensures that the hydrant length may be adjusted. If the hydrant length may not be adjusted for any reasons such as sloping surfaces, etc. in some areas, such problems are also seen in the utility model/patent applications described above.
Consequently, a new technology, which may overcome the drawbacks set forth above, ensures that the hydrant length may be adjusted up or down to any desired level, and where the adjusted length is fixed, and which is simple to assemble, cost-effective, easy to install and simple to use, is required.
Description of the Invention: This invention is a fire hydrant with its adjustable length, which may overcome the drawbacks described above, and it is characterized that it is a system, which ensures that the hydrant length may be adjusted up or down finely and freely, presents an agricultural property in terms of its appearance, is simple to assemble, easy to install and cost-effective.
It is possible to adjust part of the present invention remaining above the soil due to climate differences, elevation differences in the roadsides and elevation differences in lands, where the hydrants are installed. With only one (telescopic) hydrant with its adjustable length, it creates an embodiment, which may response more flexibly to any climate changes, and it is possible to install the hydrant body remaining above the soil at the same levels in the sloped lands.
The present invention precludes separate manufacture of the hydrants in most sizes. It is possible to adjust length of the product during on-site installation. The present invention has an telescopic embodiment design with its adjustable length. Because the hydrant length may be adjusted through the present invention, it get an edge over commercially and technically in hydrants. Because the components consisting the present invention may be fixed each other easily, and its installation period is short, it is cost-effective. Furthermore, the present investment has a robust embodiment. Structural and characteristic properties and all advantages of the invention shall be understood in the following figures and in the detailed description stated in reference to the figures.
Description of the Figures:
This present invention shall be described in reference to the attached figures. Thus, the properties of the invention shall be understood and assessed more clearly. But, its purpose is not to limit the investment to such particular arrangements. Conversely, it is aimed that the invention contains all alternatives, changes and equivalents to be included in the field defined by the attached claims.
It must be understood that the details are shown only for purpose of describing the preferred embodiments of the present invention and submitted for purpose of ensuring both formation of the methods and most useful and easily understandable description of the rules and conceptual properties of the invention. In these drawings;
Figure 1 A perspective view of the fire hydrant with its adjustable length. Figure 2 A front view of the fire hydrant with its adjustable length.
Figure 3 A cross section view of the fire hydrant with its adjustable length. Figure 4 A view of section of A.
Figure 5 A different cross section view of the fire hydrant with its adjustable length. The figures, which shall give an understanding of the present invention, are enumerated as stated in the attached figure, and listed below together their designations. Description of the References:
1. Main body
2. Telescopic body
3. Telescopic body fastening flange
3.1 Lower flange
3.2 Connector
3.3 Nut
Description of the Invention:
The present invention consists of a main body (1) made of a cast material, a telescopic body (2), which enables to adjust the length of the hydrant by lowering or rising up to an adjusted height, and a telescopic body fastening body fastening flange fastening flange (3), which ensures that the telescopic body (2) is fixed at an adjusted height (Figure-1 , Figure-4, Figure-5). The present invention has a telescopic body (2) installed within a main body (1) (Figure-4, Figure-5).
The present invention has a telescopic body fastening flange (3), which ensures that pressure is applied to the main body (1) to provide water impermeability (Figure-2, Figure-5). The present invention has a telescopic body (1) made of a cast material (Figure-4). The present invention has a telescopic body fastening flange (3), which ensures that the hydrant length may be adjusted up or down finely and freely (Figure-5). The present invention has a telescopic body fastening flange (3) consisting a lower flange (3.1), a connector (3.2) and a nut (3.3) (Figure-4). Detailed Description of the Invention:
The present invention basically consists of a main body (1), a telescopic body (2) and a telescopic body fastening flange (3) (Figure-5). The hydrant has a telescopic body (2) installed within its main body (1) (Figure-1 , Figure-5). The telescopic body fastening flange (3) enables to adjust down and up freely as long as the connectors (3.2) are not tightened (Figure-4). Thus, the hydrant length may be adjusted finely. The hydrant has a telescopic body fastening flange (3) and a connector (3.2), which passes through the lower flange (3.1) in lower side of the telescopic body fastening flange (3) upon adjustment of the hydrant length (Figure-5). There is a nut (3.3) to tighten the connector (3.2) (Figure-4). The connector (3.2) fixed completely by tightening the nut (3.3). Thus, the telescopic body fastening flange (3) is fixed tightly (Figure-4, Figure- 5).
On the main body (1), there is a valve On-Off mechanism and water outlets. Under the main body (1), there is a valve part (Figure-1 , Figure-2). The main body (1) bears any equipment such as drop valve, etc. to discharge water remaining on the upper side of the hydrant (Figure-2). The telescopic body (2) enables to adjust the length of the hydrant by lowering and rising up to an adjusted height within the main body (1) (Figure-4). The telescopic body fastening flange (3) ensures that the telescopic body (2) is fixed at an adjusted height and that pressure is made to the main body (1) to provide impermeability (Figure-4).
The telescopic body (2) and main body (1) of the hydrant are cast components (Figure-5). They are applied by an anti-corrosion paint. Because the telescopic body fastening flange (3) is made of stainless steel and remains within the soil, it is clear of any possible corrosion effects (Figure-4).

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1- The present invention relates to a hydrant with its adjustable length, and it is characterized that it consists of:
- A main body (1) made of a cast material ;
- A telescopic body (2), which enables to adjust the length of the hydrant by lowering or rising up to an adjusted height ; and
- A telescopic body fastening flange (3), which ensures that the telescopic body (2) is fixed at an adjusted height.
2- A fire hydrant with its adjusted length as stated in Claim 1 , and it is characterized that it has a telescopic body (2) within the main body (1). 3- A fire hydrant with its adjusted length as stated in Claim 1 , and it is characterized that it has a telescopic body fastening flange (3), which ensures that pressure is applied to the main body (1) to provide water impermeability.
4- A fire hydrant with its adjusted length as stated in Claim 1 , and it is characterized that it has a telescopic body (2) made of cast material.
5- A fire hydrant with its adjusted length as stated in Claim 1 , and it is characterized that it has a telescopic body fastening flange (3), which ensures that the hydrant length may be adjusted milimetric.
6- A fire hydrant with its adjusted length as stated in Claim 1 , and it is characterized that it has a telescopic body fastening flange (3) consisting a lower flange (3.1), a connector (3.2) and a nut (3.3).
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EP0717156A1 (en) * 1994-12-14 1996-06-19 Hinni AG Height adjustable hydrant
US5738140A (en) * 1996-12-26 1998-04-14 American Cast Iron Pipe Company Adjustable height extension stem and valve box assembly
DE10028655A1 (en) * 1999-06-15 2000-12-28 Von Roll Holding Ag Gerlafinge Pipe joint for height-adjustable hydrant includes flange with internal thread complementary to external thread of inner pipe
TR200805887U (en) 2008-08-07 2008-12-22 Uyan Metalurji̇ San. Ti̇c. Ltd. Sti̇. Opening and closing of fire hydrant cover

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EP0717156A1 (en) * 1994-12-14 1996-06-19 Hinni AG Height adjustable hydrant
US5738140A (en) * 1996-12-26 1998-04-14 American Cast Iron Pipe Company Adjustable height extension stem and valve box assembly
DE10028655A1 (en) * 1999-06-15 2000-12-28 Von Roll Holding Ag Gerlafinge Pipe joint for height-adjustable hydrant includes flange with internal thread complementary to external thread of inner pipe
TR200805887U (en) 2008-08-07 2008-12-22 Uyan Metalurji̇ San. Ti̇c. Ltd. Sti̇. Opening and closing of fire hydrant cover

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USD828401S1 (en) 2017-02-10 2018-09-11 John Albert Leggett Well pump
US10370832B2 (en) 2017-02-10 2019-08-06 John Albert Leggett Hydrant assembly

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