Abstract:
A lock pin bore in a two-step rocker arm assembly contains a hydraulically-actuable lock pin. A return spring urges the lock pin toward an unlatched mode. The bore has one or more annular grooves formed near the outer end of the bore. A plug, formed preferably of a soft metal, is pressed as a hydraulic seal into the bore. During assembly, the final position of the lock pin within the bore is set by positioning a stopping assembly fixture into the locking end of the bore. The plug is pressed into the bore until contact is made with the lock pin and the lock pin engages the fixture. The plug is radially deformed into the annular groove(s) to anchor the plug and fix the outer limit of travel of the locking pin and the compressive load on the return spring.
Abstract:
A plug assembly for a tube includes a tapered wedge and a sleeve. The sleeve fits over the wedge and is placed in a tube. Relative movement of the wedge and the sleeve causes the sleeve to expand and plug the tube. The exterior surface of the wedge and the interior surface of the sleeve include annular grooves. One or more compression rings in either the grooves in the sleeve or wedge permit motion of the sleeve relative to the wedge only toward the large diameter portion of the wedge. This prevents the sleeve from separating from the wedge after being installed in a tube.
Abstract:
A tube plug kit including a tube plug having a housing member and a locking member, the housing member having a smooth longitudinal bore communicating with a threaded portion, the locking member mounted on the housing member. An insert member having a first threaded end portion is received within the threaded portion of the bore, an enlarged portion positioned to be drawn within the smooth portion of the longitudinal bore in response to rotation of the insert member in the longitudinal bore and a drive portion configured to receive a torque applying tool in a rotationally driving manner. A torque limiting region is located in the insert member to limit an amount of torque the drive portion can transmit to the first threaded end portion.
Abstract:
A sealing plug for blind installation in a suitable hole thereby to plug and seal the hole, which sealing plug comprises a sleeve (1) having one end closed, a stem (2) having a head (4) at least part of which is radially enlarged with respect to the remainder of the stem, the stem head being within the sleeve and the stem protruding from the open end of the sleeve by passing through a part of the sleeve which has an internal cross-sectional dimension less than that of the stem head, the stem head having a shoulder (8), and there being an abutment of sleeve material against at least the radially outer part of the shoulder, the stem head being of a material which is harder than that of the sleeve and being formed with a weakened portion at a position intermediate the head and the part of the stem remote therefrom, whereby, when the sealing plug is inserted in a suitable hole, with the sleeve entirely within the hole, and increasing tension force is applied to the stem with respect to the sleeve, axial compression is applied by the shoulder to engage with the hole, and thereafter the stem breaks at the weakened portion (3) so that the head remains within the sleeve.
Abstract:
A tube plug kit for sealing the end of a tube is provided. The tube plug kit includes a tube plug having a housing member and a locking member, an insert member having a threaded end portion received within the threaded portion of the bore and an enlarged portion positioned to be drawn within the smooth portion of the longitudinal bore in response to rotation of the insert member in the longitudinal bore. The tube plug kit also includes an actuating tool and a tapered member between the enlarged portion of the insert member and the longitudinal bore of the housing member. The enlarged portion has a recess therein for receiving the actuating tool.
Abstract:
In a closure device for closing ducts, which are arranged in a housing and in which pressure fluid is conveyed, by means of a closure member that is attached in a duct by a clinch-type engagement, the said closure member including a first recess at its outside periphery, a particularly safe attachment and sealing of the closure member in the housing and a simple and inexpensive design is achieved because the closure member has at least one further recess at its outside periphery.
Abstract:
An assembly mating first and second tubular bodies is disclosed. The mating assembly includes at least a sleeve structure forming a part of the first tubular body and defining an inner receptacle surface region, a compression loading assembly integrally formed with, constituted by, or otherwise securable to the second tubular body and at least partially received in the sleeve structure, and a cured adhesive bond positioned between an exterior surface region of the compression loading assembly and the inner receptacle surface region to couple the sleeve structure to the compression loading assembly. The compression loading assembly is laterally expandable at at least the exterior surface region thereof and constructed and arranged relative to the cured adhesive bond so that expansion of the exterior surface region compressively loads the cured adhesive bond in a substantially lateral direction. The strength of the adhesive bond is thereby increased against shear stresses acting on said mating assembly due to longitudinal and/or torsional loading.
Abstract:
Tube plug and method for plugging a heat exchanger tube having an inner wall, which tube plug has a reduced susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking. The tube plug includes a shell having a closed end, an open end and an outer wall, the shell defining a chamber therein in communication with the open end of the shell. Disposed in the chamber is an expander member for expanding the outer wall of the shell into sealing engagement with the inner wall of the tube. A sealing member engages the expander member and is disposed across the open end of the shell for sealing the chamber defined by the shell so that fluid can not enter the chamber to corrosively attack the shell.
Abstract:
A well-head (W) having a casing (C) through which a fluid flows. Apparatus (10) for controlling the flow of fluid has an output shaft (14) insertable into a sleeve (18), sleeve (18) being insertable into the casing at its fluid outlet end (E). The sleeve extends from a hub (12) which is placeable into the outlet end of the casing and extends down into the casing. The output/draw shaft (14) extends up through the sleeve, and has a draw nut (34) and a shut-off valve (16). The valve (16) allows fluid flow through the output/draw shaft during installation of the sleeve but shuts off flow thereafter. The sleeve has a circular wall (22), defining a longitudinal bore (24) having an inner diameter (D1) which gradually increases from the upper to the lower end of the sleeve. Circular wall (22) thus has a tapering thickness along the length of the sleeve. The output/draw shaft (14) is inserted up through the sleeve and has a tapered external diameter corresponding to the internal taper of the sleeve. The output/draw shaft is drawn upward inside the sleeve, by tightening the draw nut, thereby forcing the wall of the sleeve to expand outwardly and adhere to the inside of the casing.
Abstract:
A plug retainer for a tube plug. The plug head and inboard end of the plug are captured by a locking cup and cap screw. The locking cup is threadably engaged in the open end of the tube plug. The cap screw shank extends through a bore in the locking cup and is threadably engaged with the mandrel in the tube plug. Compression rings on the locking cup and cap screw seal the locking cup to the tube plug and the cap screw to the locking cup to prevent leakage. The locking cup is crimped on the cap screw by the use of flutes on the cap screw head.