SI22016A - Distribution of control elements within the fitting assembly insulation - Google Patents

Abstract

In order to provide a distribution of control elements within the insulation of fitting assemblies for heating, solar power and cooling devices in a single or several thermo-insulating fitting assemblies or a fitting assembly, integrated into at least one pipeline, where the thermal insulation partly or completely encloses one or several pipe sections of the same fitting or the same fitting assembly, and where the assembly made of thermo-insulating material can accept the controller or its parts without the installation of additional holders of a controller or its parts and thus protects the controller against thermal impact due to the pipeline or fittings or fitting assemblies, the invention suggests that the uniform enclosure or one consisting of several parts (1, 2, 3) made of thermo-insulating material includes at least one bay (4) or passage for the installation of the controller (5) or its parts, where the controller and its part(s) can be inserted.

Description

Arrangement of control elements in isolation of reinforcement assemblies

The invention relates to the arrangement of regulators or parts thereof intended for heating, solar and cooling installations in one or more thermal insulation assemblies of an armature or valve assembly incorporated in at least one pipework, wherein the thermal insulation assembly partially or completely surrounds one or more pipe sections of the same reinforcement or of the same reinforcement assembly.

Thermal insulation assemblies surrounding one or more sections of pipe fittings or components thereof are known from e.g. EP 0 561 037 BI or DE 197 02 755 C2. The aforementioned sources cover enclosures made of thermal insulation material, which may also be multi-part, and which surround the sections of pipework with fittings or fittings, with the necessary functional and / or display elements of fittings or fittings being visible and accessible at all times. The housings typically consist of a lower and upper housing, with the lower housing being at least two-piece. However, such embodiments of enclosures made of thermal insulation material for receiving regulators in accordance with the above documents are not appropriate to the needs of e.g. when regulating heating, solar or cooling devices. Cases made of thermal insulation material are known on the market, comprising passageways housing regulators with associated holding elements, such as e.g. securely attached to sections of pipework or through the lower housing casing to the wall.

The disadvantages of the mentioned embodiments are that in order to receive the controller, a special holder with associated mounting material is required, except that the holder has to be adapted to the shape of the controller and also the recess in the heat-insulating housing or its parts must be adapted to different forms of the regulator and holder, which is in the construction and installation of this type of thermal insulation assembly of each reinforcement assembly and regulators associated with high costs and significant time consumption. It is also disadvantageous in such embodiments that the controller holder itself does not sufficiently protect against thermal influences from pipe systems with integrated fittings or fittings.

Based on the prior art, the invention is based on the problem of how to design a one-piece or multi-piece heat-insulated housing in at least one pipe line of an integrated armature or armature assembly, wherein the housing of the heat-insulating material allows the controller or its parts to be mounted without the addition of an additional regulator holder or its parts and at the same time protects the controller itself against the thermal effects of pipe lines and fittings or fittings.

To solve this problem, it is contemplated that one or more housing of thermal insulation material comprises at least one socket or passage for receiving the controller or parts thereof to which the regulator or parts or parts thereof are inserted.

In accordance with this arrangement of sockets and / or passageways, it is possible to integrate the controller or its parts into a one- or several-piece housing made of thermal insulation material at lower costs and simpler installation, without the need for additional mounting elements to be fitted for the controller.

The preferred embodiment of the multi-part housing is made possible by the fact that at least one part of the housing of the multi-part thermal insulation assembly intended to receive the controller or parts thereof comprises guiding and clamping elements which enable precise positioning of part of the housing on or in the remaining parts of the housing of the thermal insulation assembly with clamping and guiding elements with corresponding counter-elements, whereby an upper casing of the thermal insulation assembly is formed thanks to a part of the housing, which completely or to a certain extent surrounds the sections of the pipework with integrated fittings or reinforcement assemblies.

In this case, the part of the housing intended to receive the controller or parts thereof adequately comprises a thermal insulation zone that protects the controller or its parts from the effects of thermal changes in the pipe line sections and fittings.

In addition, the part of the housing intended to receive the controller or parts thereof may be adapted to different contours of the controller at minimal cost, leaving the guiding and clamping elements in close contact with the rest of the housing or other parts of the housing.

Due to the realization of clamping when installing the controller or its parts in the thermal insulation part of the housing, snap and / or clamping elements are mounted in the edge region of the enclosure, which can be elastically deformed when inserted into the controller and restored to the initial position in the inserted state, or held in the front sections or its parts in the enclosure of the housing part.

Due to the optical requirements and the possibility of continuous flow of the controller surface relative to the surface of the housing part, holding and / or positioning of the regulator or its parts in the installation space is feasible by means of clamping and / or adhesive elements.

In the case of multi-body housings made of thermal insulation material having two-part lower housing arranged for sections of pipe fittings, the part of the housing on which further guiding and adjusting elements are arranged is inseparably connected to the two-part lower housing, with the upper housing as a further part of the body housing forming a thermal insulation the rest of the housing.

The guiding and adjusting elements may consist of one or more individual parts made of thermal insulation material and / or can be integrated into the remaining parts of the thermal insulation assembly, thus making the part of the housing for receiving the controller or its parts usable both in the one-piece lower case and in the multi-part housing the lower housing.

In addition, it may be contemplated that the controller or parts thereof are held or held in a recess or passage.

The examples of carrying out the invention will now be explained in more detail on the basis of the sketch. In doing so, they show

FIG. 1 outline of a multi-piece thermal insulation assembly with integrated controller, function and display elements;

FIG. 2 sections of piping or fittings or parts of fittings where insulation against heating or cooling is provided;

FIG. 3 is a cross-section through a multi-section thermal insulation assembly in a transverse direction with respect to the pipe line sections in the regulator area;

FIG. 4 is a longitudinal section in the partial region of a heat insulation assembly with two housing parts;

FIG. 5 is a cross-section through a portion of the housing of a thermal insulation assembly carrying a regulator or parts thereof

FIG. 6 is a cross-section through a multi-part thermal insulation assembly as in FIG. 2, but with a two-piece lower housing between the pipe line sections and the mounting wall, and a built-in bridge with guide and adjustment elements;

FIG. 7 is a cross-section analogous to FIG. 6, but with a separate bridge for guide and adjusting elements between the two-piece lower housing.

In FIG. In Fig. 1 shows an outline of a multi-part thermal insulation assembly in which the controller 5 of the heating, solar or cooling device is integrated, the controller being integrated in part 2 of the multi-part heat-insulation assembly housing, and the further part 1 of the housing forms the upper housing, which - such as shown in FIG. 2 - completely or as far as necessary encloses sections 9, 9 of the pipe line in the lower housing 3, as well as the functional or display elements 10, 11. The housing 2, in which the regulator 5 or parts thereof is located, comprises in FIG. 3 shows an insulating region 12 that protects the regulator or parts thereof from thermal changes in sections 8, 9 of the pipework. In addition, a housing space 4 may be provided in the housing part 2, thanks to a simple adjustment of the tool in the manufacture of the housing part 2, to be adapted to the external geometry of the controller 15, without the need for precise insertion of the housing part 2 into the remaining housing parts 1, 3 it is necessary to change the guiding and clamping elements 6, 7 and 13, 14 respectively.

As further illustrated in FIG. 3, part 2 of the housing in the edge regions 24 of the enclosure 4 comprises built-in snap and / or clamping elements 16 which hold and / or position the controller 5 in the recessed space 4. Holding and positioning may be in accordance with FIG. 5 in such a way that the visible side of the thermal insulation assembly with parts 1, 2 of the housing and the controller 5 forms a common surface contour 18. In this case, it is preferable if the holding and / or positioning of the controller 5 in the recessed space 4 is carried out by clamping and / or adhesive elements 25.

In the case of space distress, a simplified installation of a thermal insulation assembly is possible if, between sections 8, 9 of the pipe line and the mounting wall 26, a portion of the housing of the 2 insulation is arranged as in FIG. 6 represents a two-part lower housing 19, 20, and additional guide and adjusting members 21, 22 are arranged on part 2 of the housing, which are connected in a formally manner to a two-part lower housing 19, 20, wherein the upper housing 1 surrounds and connects parts 2, 19. 20 on the visible side.

In order to allow thermal insulation to be carried out by means of the housing part 2 in both the one-piece lower box 3 and the two-piece lower box 19, 20, it is preferable that the further guide and adjusting elements 21, 22 comprise an integral part of the housing 23, which can be folded into the adjacent parts 2, 19, 20 of the thermal insulation housing, as illustrated in FIG. 7.

Claims (10)

PATENT APPLICATIONS 1. Arrangement of regulating elements in the isolation of reinforcement assemblies for heating, solar and cooling installations in one or more thermal insulation assemblies of an armature or reinforcement assembly embedded in at least one pipework, wherein the thermal insulation assembly partially or completely surrounds one or more pipe sections a reinforcement or a reinforcing assembly, characterized in that one or more housing (1, 2, 3) of thermal insulation material comprises at least one socket (4) or passage for receiving the regulator (5) or its parts, where it is / are insertable (i) or regulator (5) or parts thereof inserted. Arrangement according to Claim 1, characterized in that at least one part (2) of the housing of the multi-piece thermal insulation assembly (1, 2, 3) intended to receive the controller or parts thereof comprises guiding and clamping elements (6, 7) , allowing precise positioning of the housing part (2) on or in the remaining parts (3) of the housing of the thermal insulation assembly with the clamping and guiding element (6, 7) corresponding counter-elements (13, 14), whereby the housing part (1) is formed the upper housing of the thermal insulation assembly, which completely or to the extent necessary encloses sections (8, 9) of the pipework with integrated fittings or fittings. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the housing part (2) intended to receive the controller (5) or parts thereof comprises a thermal insulation area (12) that protects the regulator (5) or parts thereof from the effects of thermal changes in sections (8, 9) Piping and fittings. Arrangement according to one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the housing part (2) intended to receive the regulator (5) or parts thereof is adapted to the predetermined contours of the regulator (15), the guiding and clamping elements thereof (6, 7) and (13, 14) for precise insertion and positioning of the housing part (2) into the remaining parts (1, 3) of the thermal insulation assembly, however, remain unchanged. Arrangement according to one of Claims 1 to 4, characterized in that snap and (or clamping elements (16) are provided in the edge area of the recessed space (24) to receive the regulator (5) of the intended housing part (2). (5) or parts thereof are held and / or positioned in the recessed space (24). Arrangement according to one of Claims 1 to 5, characterized in that a jointly running surface contour is formed on the visible side (17) of parts (1, 2) of the housing and controller (5) or parts thereof, in particular on the front side of the armature . Arrangement according to one of Claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the holding and / or positioning of the controller (5) or its parts in the recessed space is feasible by means of clamping and / or adhesive elements. Arrangement according to one of Claims 1 to 7, characterized in that, in the case of a thermal insulation assembly, a two-part lower housing (19, 20), part (2) of the housing is arranged between the sections (8, 9) of the pipe lines and the mounting wall. having further guiding and adjusting members (21, 22) arranged in a hinged connection with the two-part lower housing (19, 20), wherein the upper housing (1) surrounds and connects the remaining parts (2, 8, as a further part of the housing of the thermal insulation assembly). 9) Enclosures. Arrangement according to one of Claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the additional guiding and adjusting elements (21, 22) consist of one or more individual parts (23) of heat-insulating material that can / are integrally integrated into the rest parts (2, 19, 20) of the thermal insulation assembly, thereby making the part (2) of the housing for receiving the regulatoi (5) or parts thereof applicable to both the one-piece lower housing (3) and the multi-part lower housing (19, 20). Arrangement according to one of Claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the regulator (5) or parts thereof are clamped or tightly held in the recess (4) or passage.