Pipe and container treatment facility comprising such a pipe
AssigneeSerac Group
InventorAndré Jean-Jacques Graffin
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Abstract
A pipe includes at least one first section connected to a second section by a hinged element allowing a predetermined angular movement of the first section relative to the second section under a predetermined minimum force. The hinged element includes two end pieces connected respectively to the first section and to the second section and hinged with each other to allow the angular movement, and a tube having ends connected to the end pieces so as to be elastically deformable under the predetermined force according to the predetermined angular movement. The sections and the end pieces themselves are rigid under the predetermined minimum force. A treatment facility include such pipes.
Claims14
An installation for processing containers, comprising:
- a movable support having mounted thereon a liquid delivery circuit and delivery spouts vertically movable and connected to the liquid delivery circuit by a pipe assembly,
- wherein the pipe assembly comprises at least a first segment, a second segment, and a hinged element connecting the first segment to the second segment while allowing a predetermined angular deflection of the first segment relative to the second segment under a predetermined minimum force during displacement of the delivery spouts,
- wherein the hinged element comprises a first tubular endpiece connected to the first segment and a second tubular endpiece connected to the second segment and hinged to the first tubular endpiece to allow the predetermined angular deflection,
- wherein materials of the first segment, the second segment, the first tubular endpiece and the second tubular endpiece are rigid under the predetermined minimum force,
- wherein the hinged element comprises a tube having ends connected to the first tubular endpiece and the second tubular endpiece so as to be elastically deformable under the predetermined minimum force over the predetermined angular deflection, and
- wherein the endpieces are connected to each other by at least one hinge pin.
A pipe assembly comprising at least:
- a first segment;
- a second segment;
- and
- a hinged element connecting the first segment to the second segment while allowing a predetermined angular deflection of the first segment relative to the second segment under a predetermined minimum force, the hinged element comprising a first tubular endpiece connected to the first segment and a second tubular endpiece connected to the second segment and hinged to the first endpiece to allow the angular deflection, materials of the segments and of the endpieces being rigid under the predetermined minimum force, the hinged element including a tube having ends connected to the endpieces so as to be elastically deformable under the predetermined force over the predetermined angular deflection, and
- the second endpiece having a free end that is received in a housing of the first endpiece and that is provided externally with a convex rounded bearing surface bearing against an internal edge of a ring that partially closes the housing and that prevents said free end from being extracted out from the housing while allowing the predetermined angular deflection of the second endpiece relative to the first endpiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.