Pipe connection having a reshaped pipe
View Patent ↗A pipe connection has a aped pipe, a screw fitting body having an internal cone, a union nut, screwable onto the screw fitting body, having an internal clamping face, which, in the operating state of the pipe connection, works together with an outwardly projecting retention face of a retention bulge of the pipe which is produced facing away from the pipe end by reshaping and projects radially outward beyond the outer mantle surface of the pipe, and having an adapter ring which is supported on the side facing toward the screw fitting body by a conical clamping face in the internal cone of the screw fitting body. To provide an alternative pipe connection of this type, the adapter ring may be supported in the operating state on the side facing toward the pipe by a radially running contact face on the radially running front face of the pipe end.
1. A pipe connection ( 1 ) comprising:
a reshaped pipe ( 4 ) having a retention bulge ( 11 ) produced facing away from an end of the pipe by reshaping and projecting radially outward beyond an outer mantle surface of the pipe,
a screw fitting body ( 2 ) having a 60° internal cone ( 6 ),
a one-piece union nut ( 5 ), adapted to be screwed onto the screw fitting body ( 2 ), the one-piece union nut having an internal clamping face ( 15 ), which, in an operating state of the pipe connection ( 1 ), works together with an outwardly projecting retention face ( 12 ) of the retention bulge ( 11 ), and
a one-piece adapter ring ( 3 , 30 ) supported on a side facing toward the screw fitting body ( 2 ) by a conical clamping face ( 7 ) in the 60° internal cone ( 6 ) of the screw fitting body ( 2 ), the one-piece adaptor ring having a radially running contact face ( 8 ) on a side facing toward the pipe and a peripheral guide collar on the side facing toward the pipe end, the peripheral guide collar projecting beyond this side, wherein the peripheral guide collar comprises a lug pointing radially inward and an interior forming a contact face for the mantle surface of the pipe
wherein a radially running front face ( 14 ) at a terminal end of the pipe has a same cross-section as a remaining portion of the pipe ( 4 ) outside the retention bulge ( 11 ),
wherein facing toward the one-piece adapter ring ( 3 , 30 ) the screw fitting body ( 2 ) has a solely conical butting surface formed by one single inclined surface extending to an inner cylindrical jacket of the screw fitting body and forming the 60° internal cone ( 6 ), the solely conical butting surface forming an only surface of the screw fitting body contacting the one-piece adapter ring in the operating state, and
wherein the one-piece adapter ring ( 3 , 30 ) is supported in the operating state on the side facing toward the pipe ( 4 ) by the radially running contact face ( 8 ) which contacts the radially running front face ( 14 ) at the terminal end of the pipe.
2. The pipe connection ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the one-piece adapter ring ( 3 , 30 ) has an internal diameter larger than or identical to at least one of the screw fitting body ( 2 ) and the pipe ( 4 ) in the end area.
3. The pipe connection ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the one-piece adapter ring ( 3 , 30 ) has at least one peripheral groove ( 18 , 19 ) for receiving a sealing ring ( 20 , 21 ).
4. The pipe connection ( 1 ) according to claim 3 , wherein the at least one peripheral groove ( 18 ) is located in the conical clamping face ( 7 ) of the one-piece adapter ring ( 3 , 30 ) and an opening cross-section of the at least one peripheral groove ( 18 ) is closed in the operating state of the pipe connection ( 1 ) by the 60° internal cone ( 6 ) of the screw fitting body ( 2 ).
5. The pipe connection ( 1 ) according to claim 3 , wherein the at least one peripheral groove ( 19 ) is located in the contact face ( 8 ) of the one-piece adapter ring ( 3 , 30 ) and an opening cross-section of the at least one peripheral groove ( 19 ) is closed in the operating state of the pipe connection ( 1 ) by a front side ( 10 ) of the pipe ( 4 ).
6. The pipe connection ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the one-piece adapter ring ( 3 , 30 ) has a slightly smaller external diameter than an internal diameter of the one-piece union nut ( 5 ).
7. The pipe connection ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein an internal diameter of the one-piece adapter ring ( 30 ) is smaller in an area of the lug ( 40 ) than an external diameter of the pipe ( 4 ) in the end area.
8. The pipe connection ( 1 ) according to claim 1 , wherein the one-piece adapter ring ( 30 ) has a rubber coating in an area of the lug ( 40 ).
9. The pipe connection according to claim 1 , wherein the one-piece union nut and the one-piece adapter ring are made from a metal.