Flushing station
AssigneeUponor Innovation AB
InventorAndreas Ross
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Abstract
A flushing station is provided. The flushing station includes a connection piece for a hot water pipe, a connection piece for a cold water pipe, a collecting tank with a siphon for draining the water, pipes at the connection pieces which conduct the water from the connection pieces into the collecting tank at least one sensor per pipe a control unit connected to the sensor, a valve actuatable in the pipes, wherein the control unit is coupled to the actuatable valve and the actuatable valve can be opened by the control unit for flushing the hot or cold water pipe. According to the invention, a flow restrictor and a flow straightener are integrated in each of the pipes.
Claims14
A flushing station comprising:
- a connection piece for a hot water pipe;
- a connection piece for a cold water pipe;
- a collecting tank with a siphon for draining water;
- pipes at the connection pieces which conduct the water from the connection pieces into the collecting tank;
- at least one sensor per pipe;
- a control unit connected to the sensors connected to the pipes;
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- valves, each respective valve being actuatable in a respective pipe of the pipes;
- wherein the control unit is coupled to each respective valve and the valves can be individually opened by the control unit for flushing one or more of the hot water pipe and the cold water pipe,
- wherein a flow restrictor and a flow straightener are integrated in each of the pipes, and
- wherein the flow restrictor limits the amount of water and the flow straightener creases a laminar flow.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.