DEVICE FOR COUPLING PIPE LINES Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: flying vehicles; suspension of flying vehicle parts separated in flight, additional external fuel tanks, in particular. SUBSTANCE: device has fixed housing 1 and movable housing 2 with pipe unions 3 and 4 first of which is provided with orienting cone 5 and device for radial orientation of housing; second pipe union is provided with catcher 6 with spherical endpiece; device is also provided with appliance for sealing the parts being connected which is made in form of half-connectors 8 and 9 of check valve arranged in housings 1 and 2; orientation device is made in form of ball-and-socket joint mounted in spaced relation in first housing; catcher 6 of housing 2 is provided with second spherical surface 10 and in extension as tangent to diameter along axis of catcher by cylindrical locating section 11 equal in diameter to first spherical surface 7 and axially separated from it by clearance 12; first spherical surface 7 and second spherical surface 10 having cylindrical section 11 are made as diametral projections of catcher 6. EFFECT: extended range of compensation for initial asymmetry of units being coupled at guaranteed axial alignment required in coupling valve pairs of check valve. 2 dwg