Supply and exhaust pipe
In order to provide a supply and exhaust pipe comprising a drop-off prevention mechanism, particularly effective for pipes with a large diameter, to increase bending strength and sealing efficiency, formation of a hemmed section A at an top edge of an insert portion 4 can eliminate the occurrence of buckling and increase bending strength. Furthermore, an O-ring for sealing can improve sealing efficiency and also can make itself follow a deformation of the pipe by forming it into a mushroom shape to establish close contacts to the pipe at two points, namely a neck 8 b and a part of the circumference 8 c of a cap 8 a . Furthermore, a drop-off prevention mechanism of the pipe has a wide sliding piece 12 , and an arc 17 with a curvature adapted to the curvature of the pipe is formed on the lower surface of the sliding piece 12 , to stabilize its sliding.
1. A supply and exhaust pipe, comprising:
a receptacle formed at one end of said pipe for connecting another pipe; and
an insert portion formed at the other end of said pipe for being inserted into a receptacle of another pipe, wherein a bead for an O-ring is formed on the internal surface of said receptacle;
a modified O-ring inserted in the bead for O-ring, the modified O-ring comprising a cap and a neck presenting a cross-sectional mushroom shape, during insertion of an insert portion into a receptacle, the modified O-ring has a neck pushed by an external surface of the insert portion and has a cap inclined within the bead for the O-ring to the opposite direction from the insert direction, and the cap contacts closely to the internal surface of the bead for the O-ring, and by contacting closely to the external surface of the insert portion with part of the circumference of the cap, the modified O-ring is intended to increase sealing efficiency at the joint when being connected with a design to establish close contacts to the external surface of the insert portion at two points including an edge of the neck and the cap, and to maintain sealing efficiency with a design to follow a bending when it is formed on the joint.
2. The supply and exhaust pipe in claim 1 , wherein the external surface of the modified O-ring has a solid lubricant layer formed thereon.
3. A supply and exhaust pipe, comprising
a receptacle formed at one end of the pipe for connecting another pipe;
an insert portion formed at the other end of the pipe for being inserted into a receptacle of another pipe, wherein a square opening is formed on part of the external surface of said receptacle;
a cover mounted outside the square opening and forming inside a stopper space;
a stopper accommodated in said stopper space;
a sliding piece integrated in the cover and having on the edge side thereof, an engagement portion having a cross-sectionally U-shape or V-shape as to move from said opening towards the center of the pipe, and also having on the opposite side from said engagement portion a finger hook exposed from said cover, whereby when inserting the insert portion into said receptacle until a predetermined position, said sliding piece moved from said opening into a lock bead formed on the external surface of the insert portion to prevent drop-off, when pushing the sliding piece with a finger on said finger hook, or when withdrawing the sliding piece, said engagement slides up along the edge of the lock bead and the opening, by escaping of the engagement from the inside of the lock bead to a space within the cover, the lock is unlocked so as to withdraw the insert portion from the inside of the receptacle.
4. The supply and exhaust pipe in claim 3 , wherein an opening formed on an insert portion side has a turn-up section being turned up upwards by 180 degree formed at an edge on a side of a finger hook of a sliding piece, intending to reinforce the edge of the opening and to improve the functions of the sliding piece.
5. The supply and exhaust pipe in claim 3 , wherein a sliding piece is shaped transversely in a concave arc along the external circumferential surface of a supply and exhaust pipe.
6. The supply and exhaust pipe in claim 3 , wherein in the middle between an engagement and a finger hook of the sliding piece, a warp of 163 degrees±7 degrees is formed.
7. The supply and exhaust pipe in claim 6 , wherein an open angle of an engagement formed in U-shape or V-shape forms 35 to 45 degree, and the level of an top edge of this engagement is set at a level lower than that of a plane of a sliding piece on the engagement side by 0.2 to 0.5 mm plus the thickness.
8. The supply and exhaust pipe in claim 6 , wherein an angle between an engagement and a plane of a sliding piece on the engagement side is set at 90 degrees±3 degrees.