IP Library Granted Patent US 10,393,118
Granted Patent B2
US 10,393,118 · App. 15/148,392 · Granted Aug 27, 2019

Screw machine

Inventors: Tim Lehmann (Gelsenkirchen, DE); Norbert Tewes (Dinslaken, DE); Jürgen Wennemar (Haltern am See, DE)
Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
F04C18/16F04C28/12
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Patent No.
US 10,393,118
App. No.
15/148,392
Granted
Aug 27, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A screw machine having a rotor housing portion and an outflow housing portion, screw rotors mounted in the rotor housing portion that form a rotor pair, and a control slide that is likewise mounted in the rotor housing portion, which delimits a working space of the rotor housing portion and which can be shifted parallel to the rotor axes of the screw rotors to change a size of the effective working space. The control slide, when shifted out of the rotor housing portion into the outflow housing portion, is guided by a positively joined guide of the outflow housing portion.

Claims (16)

1. A screw machine, comprising

a machine housing having a rotor housing portion and an outflow housing portion;

screw rotors mounted in the rotor housing portion that form a rotor pair;

a control slide mounted in the rotor housing portion that delimits a compression space of the rotor housing portion and configured to be shifted parallel to a rotor axis of the screw rotors to changing a size of an effective working space such that the effective working space is made smaller as the control slide is shifted out of the rotor housing portion into the outflow housing portion;

a control device coupled to a first end of the control slide and configured to linearly shift the control slide; and

a positively joined stationary guide configured to directly slidingly guide the control slide at a second end of the control slide, opposite the first end of the control slide, as the control slide is shifted out of the rotor housing portion into the outflow housing portion,

wherein the stationary guide has a first end affixed to the outflow housing portion and a second end configured to mate with the second end of the control slide and facing.

2. The screw machine according to claim 1 , wherein the positively joined stationary guide of the outflow housing portion comprises a guide rod that supports and guides the control slide in a positively joined manner.

3. The screw machine according to claim 2 , wherein the guide rod extends parallel to the rotor axis of the screw rotors.

4. The screw machine according to claim 2 , wherein the guide rod is configured to support and guide the control slide in a positively joined manner when the control slide is shifted out of the rotor housing portion into the outflow housing portion.

5. The screw machine according claim 1 , wherein the screw machine is a screw compressor.

6. The screw machine according to claim 2 , wherein the control slide comprises a recess which the guide rod enters on an end of the control slide facing at least one of the outflow housing portion and the guide rod.

7. The screw machine according to claim 6 , wherein the guide rod enters the recess of the control slide when the control slide has been at least partly shifted out of the rotor housing portion into the outflow housing portion.

8. The screw machine according to claim 6 , wherein the guide rod enters the recess of the control slide in portions with a portion facing at least one of the rotor housing portion and the control slide when the control slide has been maximally shifted into the rotor housing portion.

9. The screw machine according to claim 6 , wherein the recess of the control slide extends parallel to the rotor axis of the screw rotors.

10. The screw machine according to claim 6 , wherein the recess of the control is open towards the outflow housing portion.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 14, 2018
From: MAN DIESEL & TURBO SE
To: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
Reel/Frame 046818/0806 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 25, 2016
From: LEHMANN, TIM; TEWES, NORBERT
To: MAN DIESEL & TURBO SE
Reel/Frame 039246/0788 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 25, 2016
From: WENNEMAR, JUERGEN
To: MAN DIESEL & TURBO SE
Reel/Frame 039246/0918 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2015 006 129 · May 9, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160327043A1 · Nov 10, 2016