US 5,752,548 AGranted

Coupling for drainage pipings

AssigneeBenkan Corporation

InventorsShigeyuki Matsumoto, Shinobu Katoh, Keisuke Sugawara, Masao Kanazawa, Yutaka Yoshida

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Abstract

A coupling for vertical connection in sewage plumbing used in tall and high-rise buildings, is disclosed. The coupling is equipped in its inside walls with a pair of vortical blades for descending sewage streams from the upper floors into the coupling to impinge on their top blade surface to flow sideways into a spiral flow down the coupling. The more intense vortex streams developed, the faster the streams fall along the plumbing. For a vortex generates a vertical column of upwardly moving ventilative air in the center of the sewage streams, smoothing the descent of the drainage. Moreover, the top and bottom blades are mounted at different levels of height inside the coupling, and circumferentially displaced to each other so as to form a V-shape as seen in the horizonal projection view. The positional displacement is designed such that the bottom vortex blade can capture on its surface essentially all of the streams captured by the top vortical blade, thereby duplicating the vortical motion of the falling streams from the top blade.

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Dependent claims

A throughput coupling for vertical connection in sewage plumbing, wherein the coupling is a substantially vertically extending tubular member having an upper and a side inlet port and a lower outlet port for connection to sewage pipes, comprising a top and bottom vertical blade mounted radially internally in the walls of the coupling and tilted at an angle with respect to a horizonal plane of the coupling, the top and bottom vortical blades being positioned to intercept falling streams of descending sewage in the coupling whereby said streams impinge upon upward facing surfaces of said blades, the top vortical blade being mounted at a top portion of the coupling while the bottom vortical blade being mounted at a bottom portion of the coupling, said blades terminating in edges, said edges of the paired vortical blades being positioned circumferentially and displaced to each other so as to form a largely V-shaped edge in horizontal projection view, the top vortical blade being set in such a positional relationship with the bottom vortical blade so that the bottom vortical blade can capture substantially all of the falling sewage stream that was captured by the top vortical blade in the same coupling, thereby duplicating vortical motion of the falling streams from the top vortical blade.

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