DISPOSABLE TYPE FLUID SEPARATOR MODULE PROVIDED WITH QUICKLY ATTACHABLE CONNECTOR

• Main Authors: DE LOS REYES GASTON, MILLER RICHARD L, GUERRERA STEPHEN K, NIERMEYER KARL J, WARGO CHRISTOPHER R
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.03.1998
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: BLASTING; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HEATING; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; LIGHTING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PIPES; SEPARATION; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fluid separator module which can be manufactured easily and is highly reliable and easy to handle by installing female type fluid connectors in a disposable type module having a fluid separating element in a housing and air-tightly joining male type connectors of a manifold block to the female connectors in a quickly detachable manner. SOLUTION: Three female type fluid connector 21 to communicate a fluid to a fluid separating element in a housing 23 of a module 2 are installed in an upper end part of the module 2. These connectors 21 are kept from one another and paralleled as to be joined air-tightly to respective counterpart male connectors 25 of a manifold block 3 in a quickly detachable manner. A flange 22 attached to the housing 23 of the module 2 is fitted in the manifold block 3. At the time of changing, after detachment by pulling the flange forward, a flange of a new module 2 to be changed is inserted into a slot, a receiving apparatus is axially moved upward, and the connector 21 of the module 2 is air-tightly joined to a jetting connector 25 of the manifold block 3.