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US 10,907,120 B2Granted
Tank outlet having a vortex breaker and method for mounting a vortex breaker on the tank outlet of a tank
AssigneeGEA Tuchenhagen GmbH
InventorsDean Dutschmann, Christian Klemme, Bernd Bumester
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Abstract
A tank outlet (1) of a tank (100) comprising a tube fitting body (10), with an inlet region (11), which can be mounted on an outlet region (111) of a tank (100), a vortex breaker (20), which is mounted solely on the tube fitting body (10), wherein the vortex breaker (20) extends into the tank (100) through the inlet region (11) and does not touch the tank (100). Moreover, a method for mounting a corresponding vortex breaker (20) on a tank outlet (1) of a tank (100) is claimed.
Claims10
A tank outlet of a tank, comprising:
- a tube fitting body, with an inlet region, mountable on an outlet region of a tank;
- a vortex breaker solely mounted on the tube fitting body, the vortex breaker including:
- a foot region mounted on the tube fitting body, and
- a head region held inside the tank by the foot region;
- wherein the head region of the vortex breaker comprises at least one dimension, measured in the horizontal plane, which is larger than the diameter of an inlet opening in the inlet region of the tube fitting body, and
- wherein the vortex breaker extends through the inlet region into the tank and does not touch the tank and does not touch a wall of the inlet opening in the inlet region of the tube fitting body.
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A tank outlet of a tank, comprising:
- a tube fitting body, with an inlet region, mountable on an outlet region of a tank;
- a vortex breaker solely mounted on the tube fitting body;
- wherein the vortex breaker extends through the inlet region into the tank and does not touch the tank;
- wherein a foot region of the vortex breaker is detachably mounted on the tube fitting body by means of a screw connection;
- wherein the screw connection comprises a seal sealing the screw connection outside a liquid region towards a cavity of the tube fitting body, and
- wherein the seal is arranged on respective edges between a cover and a base of the foot region as well as the cover and the tube fitting body, and forms a convexly shaped surface towards the inside of the tube fitting body.
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A tank outlet of a tank, comprising:
- a tube fitting body, with an inlet region, mountable on an outlet region of a tank;
- a vortex breaker solely mounted on the tube fitting body, the vortex breaker including:
- a foot region mounted on the tube fitting body, and
- a head region held inside the tank by the foot region;
- wherein the vortex breaker extends through the inlet region into the tank and does not touch the tank,
- wherein the head region of the vortex breaker comprises at least one dimension, measured in the horizontal plane, which is larger than the diameter of an inlet opening in the inlet region of the tube fitting body, and
- wherein the tube fitting body further comprises an openable cover facing the inlet region, which the vortex breaker is mounted to.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.