Arrangement for storing and conveying liquid, especially in an aircraft
AssigneeAirbus Deutschland GmbH
InventorSafa Kirma
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Abstract
At least one liquid tank has an outlet opening and a drain stub extending therefrom. A circular flange has plural connection openings with connection stubs respectively extending therefrom. A drain line is connected to the circular flange and communicates with all of the connection stubs. The drain stub of each tank is flange-connected to a respective connection stub extending from the circular flange. Unneeded connection stubs can be closed with blind flanges. This provides a modular reconfigurable system allowing a selected plurality of liquid tanks to be connected to a single drain line through the flange arrangement.
Claims17
An arrangement for storing and conveying a liquid comprising:
- a first liquid container having an inlet opening and an outlet opening;
- a pipe stub as a first drain stub communicating with and extending from said outlet opening of said liquid container, and terminating with a drain stub flange at a free end of said first drain stub;
- a circular flange having plural connection openings therein, and plural pipe stubs as connection stubs respectively communicating with and extending from said plural connection openings and terminating with respective connection stub flanges at free ends of said connection stubs;
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- a drain line connected to said circular flange and communicating with all of said connection stubs through said connection openings;
- wherein said drain stub flange of said first drain stub is mechanically coupled directly to said connection stub flange of a first one of said connection stubs so as to communicate said first drain stub through said first connection stub to said drain line.
An arrangement for storing and conveying a liquid comprising:
- a first liquid container having an inlet opening and an outlet opening;
- a circular flange having plural connection openings therein, and plural pipe-shaped connection stubs respectively communicating with and extending from said plural connection openings;
- a drain line connected to said circular flange and communicating with all of said connection stubs through said connection openings;
- a pipe-shaped first drain stub communicating with and extending from said outlet opening of said liquid container, and connected to a first one of said connection stubs so as to communicate with said drain line through said first connection stub and said connection opening thereof;
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- a closed blind flange secured to an open inlet end of an unneeded second one of said connection stubs so as to close-off said unneeded second one of said connection stubs.
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