Lubricant Distributor Adapter Rings for Gas-Flow Dosing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing lubricant distribution systems face challenges in efficiently delivering large volume flows to multiple lubrication points with precise dosing, requiring large line cross-sections and complex assembly processes, especially in spatially limited areas.
Innovation Solution
A distribution device equipped with adapter rings that cover outflow bores, allowing for easy installation in large openings and accommodating large volume flows, with a design that includes seals and annular grooves for secure positioning and sealing, facilitating assembly and disassembly without specialized tools.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If large volume flows are transported to multiple lubrication points, then the lubricant supply capacity is improved, but large line cross-sections are required which increase device complexity and spatial requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The distribution device divides the single supply line into multiple outflow bores (at least 5, preferably 6-12) arranged in groups around the longitudinal axis. Each group supplies a specific lubrication point, enabling the system to distribute large total volume flows to multiple points simultaneously through smaller individual channels, thus maintaining high lubricant supply capacity while avoiding the need for excessively large line cross-sections
2Adaptability or versatility
If the distributor is installed in spatially limited areas with deep bores, then adaptability is improved, but assembly and sealing become more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter ring is designed as a telescopic structure with at least one telescopic section that can be extended or retracted. This nested design allows the adapter ring to adapt to different bore depths and spatial constraints in the installation location, while the telescopic mechanism enables easy assembly and disassembly without requiring specialized tools, thus improving both adaptability and ease of manufacture
3Measurement precision
If precise dosing of lubricant is required at multiple lubrication points, then lubrication precision is improved, but the equipment expenditure and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The outflow bores are arranged in groups around the longitudinal axis, with each group assigned to a specific lubrication point. This localized grouping ensures that lubricant is precisely dosed and delivered to each specific lubrication point through dedicated outflow groups, achieving precise dosing without requiring complex individual control systems for each lubrication point
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple outflow bores are combined into groups that collectively supply each lubrication point. This merging approach allows precise dosing to be achieved through the collective action of grouped bores rather than requiring individually controlled complex mechanisms for each lubrication point, thus reducing overall system complexity while maintaining dosing precision
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient distribution of large lubricant/gas volume flows to multiple points with precise dosing, simplifies assembly and installation, and ensures secure sealing, even in deep or spatially constrained locations, reducing equipment and power requirements.
Implementation Method 1
the lubricant to be distributed is driven through the lines of the system to the respective lubrication points by means of a turbulently flowing gas stream
Implementation Method 2
a turbulently flowing gas stream, which in practice is usually an air stream
Implementation Method 3
a distributor body which has a large number of inflow bores which emanate from its one end face and extend along its longitudinal axis and axially parallel to one another, and outflow bores which each are connected to one of the inflow bores
Data Source
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AI summary
The invention relates to a device for distributing a lubricant flow S transported by means of a gas flow, especially an air flow, said device comprising a distributing body (2) having a plurality of inflow boreholes (26, 27) which extend from the front surface of the distributing body, along the longitudinal axis (L) thereof and axially parallel in relation to each other, and outflow boreholes (22) which are each connected to one of the inflow boreholes (26) and end on a peripheral surface of the distributing body (2). The invention also relates to a machine provided with such a device. The distributing device according to the invention is easy to mount and allows large volume flows to be distributed to a high number of outflow boreholes. This is achieved in that an adapter ring (4-8) placed over the distributing body (2) is associated with at least one of the outflow boreholes (22), the width of the adapter ring covering part of the length of the distributing body (2), which is larger than the diameter of the outflow opening (23) of the outflow borehole (22) associated with the ring, said adapter ring comprising at least one opening (35) through which the lubricant/gas flow S leaving the outflow borehole (22) associated with the ring leaves.