Patent ID: 11898664
Assignee: nan
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  B | IPC B  F

Claim 0:
1. A universal pipe connection system comprising:
a fitting comprising a tubular body with an annular bulge at an end portion, the annular bulge forming on, an inner side of the tubular body, an annular groove housing a sealing gasket, the annular groove being open towards an inside of the tubular body, the end portion extending on a side opposite to an end of the fitting with a cylindrical portion,
wherein said tubular body provides a fitting socket for an end portion of a pipe; and
at least one pressing tool having at least two opposite pressing jaws, which are configured to cooperate with said end portion of the fitting, by surrounding the end portion of the fitting along its circumference, the pressing jaws having a profile of a surface in contact with said end portion of the fitting shaped to press said end portion of the fitting against the end portion of the pipe inserted into said fitting, causing, in at least one circumferential band adjacent to the annular bulge, a contemporaneous deformation of a wall of the pipe and of the cylindrical portion of said end portion of the fitting, so that the end portion of the fitting and the wall of the pipe become mechanically clamped together in a circumferential and axial direction and a deformation of the annular bulge presses the gasket, generating a sealing effect between said tubular body and the end of the pipe inserted therein,
wherein:
the annular bulge and the annular groove are provided at a given axial distance from the end of the fitting, there being provided the cylindrical portion between said end of the fitting and a side of the bulge facing said end of the fitting;
the annular bulge and the groove have such a geometry and size to cooperate alternatively with two different types of pressing tools selected among a pressing tool having a M profile and a pressing tool having a V profile;
the universal pipe connection system comprises, alternatively or in combination, both the pressing tool with the M profile and the pressing tool having the V profile; and
wherein the tubular body comprises the annular bulge and the annular groove each having two side walls and the cylindrical portion connected thereto with a curved flare, the annular bulge having a radial projection with respect to a diameter of an outer side of the cylindrical portion; and
wherein:
the two sides walls are connected with each other by a curved portion having a radius ranging from 1 mm to 2.5 mm;
said radius has a size ranging from 3% to 7% of a diameter of the tubular body;
said two side walls form two sides of the bulge and of the annular groove and are connected to the cylindrical portion by the curved flare having an equal radius of curvature as said two side walls and ranging from 0.25 mm to 0.75 mm;
the radial projection of the annular bulge changes for outer diameters of the cylindrical portion of the fitting from 18 mm to 60 mm, and from 2 mm to 4 mm;
the radial projection of the annular bulge in relation to a diameter of the outer side of cylindrical portions on the two sides thereof ranges from 5% to 15% of the diameter of the outer side of said cylindrical portions;
an axial distance between a central axis of the annular bulge and a free edge of the cylindrical portion at a port of the fitting ranges from 10 mm to 16 am for diameters of the cylindrical portion ranging from 20 mm to 60 mm;
the axial distance is higher than 20% of an outer diameter of the cylindrical portions; and
a thickness of a wall of the fitting is essentially the same for an entire axial length thereof and is about 3 mm.