Nozzle to batch and regularize concrete delivery from the pipe of concrete distribution arms

• Main Author: MORETTI, GIORGIO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 11.06.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; BUILDING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR OTHER BUILDING AIDS, OR THEIRUSE; CONVEYING; FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS; FORMS; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; NOZZLES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTINGBUILDINGS; SCAFFOLDING; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; SHUTTERING; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

Nozzle for mounting on the straight-shaped end of a concrete supply pipe consisting of articulated arms, for batching and ensuring the more uniform delivery, during operation, and for stopping delivery, during the rest condition, of concrete from the end of said pipe, said nozzle being formed by a hollow single-piece body made of material which is yielding, with elastic properties, but resistant to deformation, comprising a cylindrical portion to be fixed to the end of the pipe, by way of an axial extension thereof, and a substantially hemispherical portion which is connected to the former by means of an enlarged portion and interrupted by a plurality of meridian cuts which join together at an end hole.