DIVIDER WITH FORCIBLY DESTROYED MEMBRANE Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC F16K17/16 

FIELD: engines and pumps.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to spacecraft propulsion systems. Separator with a force-breakable diaphragm contains a housing with inlet, outlet and command fittings, a movable sealing element in the form of a bellows mounted on the flange of the command fitting separating the control cavity from the working, destructible sealing element and destructive body in the form of a hollow cylindrical knife with a cutting element and with holes in the walls for the passage of fluid, mounted on a movable flange of the sealing element and provided with a lock for the working position. Latch working position is made in the form of a split spring ring installed in the annular outer groove of the movable flange, in the walls of which there are holes for the passage of fluid, and in contact with the inner surface of the housing, having on this surface an annular groove for fixing the split spring ring.

EFFECT: technical result of the invention is to increase the reliability of the separator.

3 cl, 2 dwg